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Birthday effects and preschool attendance
Huang, Francis L., Q1 2013
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 28(1), 11-23

A comparison of young-for-grade students to old-for-grade students on both early literacy upon kindergarten entry and their probabilities of being retained in kindergarten, and an examination of the relationship between early education attendance and those comparative differences, based on data from 1,474 economically disadvantaged first-time kindergarteners who attended 468 public schools in Virginia in the fall of 2007

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Descriptive-developmental performance of at-risk preschoolers on early literacy tasks
Justice, Laura M., 2005
Reading Psychology, 26(1), 1-25

A description of findings from the Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening: Pre-Kindergarten (PALS-PreK) in Virginia, which evaluated the early literacy achievement of at-risk preschool children

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The differential effects of preschool: Evidence from Virginia
Huang, Francis L., Q1 2012
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(1), 33-45

A study of the association between attendance in a state-funded prekindergarten program and both literacy through first grade and the likelihood of kindergarten repetition, and an analysis of these differences among groups of children of different races and disability statuses, based on an analysis of data from a cohort of children at approximately 1,000 Virginia schools

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Does intensity matter?: Preschoolers' print knowledge development within a classroom-based intervention
McGinty, Anita, Q3 2011
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 26(3), 255-267

A study of the relationship between intensity of intervention, specifically number of intervention sessions per week and the amount of practice provided per session, and print knowledge learning, based on data from 367 randomly selected children from 55 preschool classrooms over the course of 30 weeks

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An exploration of the relationship between preschool experience and the acquisition of phonological awareness in kindergarten
Vance, Thana L., 2003
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

An exploratory study of the impact of preschool experience on young children's acquisition of phonological awareness in kindergarten comparing test results of four cohorts of children with different preschool experiences, including Head Start, a Montessori preschool, a state-initiated preschool program, and a group of children without any preschool experience

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How many letters should preschoolers in public programs know?: The diagnostic efficiency of various preschool letter-naming benchmarks for predicting first-grade literacy achievement
Piasta, Shayne B., November, 2012
Journal of Educational Psychology, 104(4), 945-958

A study of the association between end-of-preschool letter-naming abilities and risk status on first-grade measures of word reading, spelling, and reading comprehension, and an examination of optimal end-of-preschool letter-naming benchmarks for the children in the sample, based on data from 371 children in Virginia and Ohio

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Increased implementation of emergent literacy screening in pre-kindergarten
Invernizzi, Marcia, April 2010
Early Childhood Education Journal, 37(6), 437-446

A discussion of the role of early literacy assessment in preschool, an examination of key features of preschool literacy assessments, and a presentation of selected findings from the statewide use of a literacy screening tool

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Literacy behaviors of preschool children participating in an early intervention program
Sayeski, Kristin L., 2001
(CIERA Report No. 2-014). Ann Arbor, MI: Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement.

An investigation into the emergent literacy skills of preschoolers who participated in an early intervention program, based on a sample of 2,759 children from the Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI)

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Mother-child bookreading in low-income families: Correlates and outcomes during the first three years of life
Raikes, Helen, July/August 2006
Child Development, 77(4), 924-953

An investigation of the impact of mother-child book reading on low income young children's cognitive and language development as well as an examination of book reading in relation to the Early Head Start intervention using data from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project

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Pathways to reading: The role of oral language in the transition to reading
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005
Developmental Psychology, 41(2), 428-442

A study of the relationship between preschool oral language skills and reading performance in early elementary school, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development

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The relation of child care to cognitive and language development [Abridged]
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005
In Child care and child development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (pp. 318-336). New York: Guilford Press

An abridged reprint of a study of the relationship between cognitive and language development and quality, amount, and type of child care, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care

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Super Why Summer Camp assessment findings: Summer 2008
Phillips, Beth M., December 15, 2008
Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service.

An evaluation of the emergent literacy outcomes of participation in Super WHY! Reading Camp, a week-long summer literacy program for preschool-age children, based on pre- and post-test assessments of 454 children who participated in 2008

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Teacher qualifications, classroom practices, family characteristics, and preschool experience: Complex effects on first graders' vocabulary and early reading outcomes
Connor, Carol McDonald, 2005
Journal of School Psychology, 43(4), 343-375

A study of the association of teacher qualification and observed classroom practice as they relate to children’s vocabulary and early reading skills, based on an ecological model incorporating children’s language and word recognition skills prior to school entry, their home and preschool learning environments, and family socio-economic status

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Third national Even Start evaluation: Program impacts and implications for improvement
United States. Department of Education. Planning and Evaluation Service, 2003
(Doc No. 2005-05). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Planning and Evaluation Service.

Findings from the third national evaluation of the federal Even Start family literacy program, including a description of the program and its participants, and a discussion of program impacts based on data from an experimental study of Even Start's effectiveness in 18 projects

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Use of decontextualized talk across story contexts: How oral storytelling and emergent reading can scaffold children’s development
Curenton, Stephanie M., January 2008
Early Education and Development, 19(1), 161-187

An examination of mother-child dialog during storytelling, story-creating, and story-reading exercises, including reasoning, word-usage, the relationship between type of talk and complexity of language used, and the association between maternal literacy and decontextualized talk, in a sample of 33 primarily African American mothers and their preschoolers

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