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The acquisition of literacy skills in 4 and 5 year olds
Smith, Teri L., May 2009
Unpublished master’s thesis, Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall

An examination of literacy skills acquisition in 16 4 and 5 year old preschoolers in a School Readiness program in a medium sized school district in southwestern Minnesota

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Action speaks louder than words: Young children differentially weight perceptual, social, and linguistic cues to learn verbs
Brandone, Amanda C., July 2007
Child Development, 78(4), 1322-1342

An exploration of the ways that children utilize perceptual, social, and linguistic cues in order to learn verbs, using data from three experiments conducted with 21- to 24-month-old children

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Active hours afterschool: Childhood obesity prevention & afterschool programs
Afterschool Alliance, April 2006
(Afterschool Alert Issue Brief No. 24). Washington, DC: Afterschool Alliance.

An overview of the role afterschool programs can play in reducing childhood obesity

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Activity settings and daily routines in preschool classrooms: Diverse experiences in early learning settings for low-income children
Fuligni, Allison Sidle, Q2 2012
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(2), 198-209

An identification of two routines profiles--structured-balanced and high free choice, derived from varying proportions of teacher-directed and child-initiated activities during the preschool day, and a study of the relationship between those routine profiles and structural program characteristics, measures of process quality, children's engagement in activities of various academic contents, teachers' instructional strategies, and children's school readiness skills, based on data from 53 public preschool classrooms, 47 private preschool classrooms, and 25 family child care homes that serve low-income children in Los Angeles, California

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Added value of dialogic parent-child book readings: A meta-analysis
Mol, Suzanne E., January 2008
Early Education and Development, 19(1), 7-26

An analysis of data from multiple studies on of the effects of dialogic parent-child book reading on the vocabulary skills of young children

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The added value of the School of the 21st Century when combined with a statewide preschool program
Ginicola, Misty M., January, 2013
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 83(1), 89-93

A comparison of child developmental outcomes and classroom quality in school-based early care and education centers that offered either Arkansas Better Chance program (ABC) services alone or a combination of ABC and School of the 21st Century services, based on data from 8,745 4-year-olds in ABC classrooms in Arkansas

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Addressing challenging behaviors in Head Start: A closer look at program policies and procedures
Quesenberry, Amanda C., February, 2011
Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 30(4), 209-220

An examination of Head Start policies and procedures related to child guidance and challenging behaviors, based on interviews with program staff and document analysis from 6 Head Start programs in the Midwest

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Addressing disruptive behaviors in the preschool classroom: An adaptation of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) for Head Start teachers
Collett, Brent R., 2002
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Utah State University, Logan

A study describing the development, implementation, and evaluation of an early intervention program designed to improve teaching strategies and practices for Head Start children with behavioral problems

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Addressing social-emotional development and infant mental health in early childhood systems
Zeanah, Paula D., 2005
(Building State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Series No. 12). University of California, Los Angeles, National Center for Infant and Early Childhood Health Policy.

A policy report addressing several issues associated with infant mental health (IMH), including organization; delivery of services; and funding and training opportunities

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Addressing socio-emotional development and infant mental health in early childhood systems: Executive summary
Zeanah, Paula D., 2005
(Building State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Series No. 12). University of California, Los Angeles, National Center for Infant and Early Childhood Health Policy.

A study of the necessity to focus child care and early education efforts on infant mental health and development, with policy recommendations and strategies for implementation, the meaning of infant mental health, and the development of systems for delivering infant mental health services

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Adjustment to the first year in school: A Singapore perspective
Yeo, Lay See, 2006
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 14(2), 55-68

An examination of adjustment to school by 90 first graders from different ethnic, language, and socioeconomic backgrounds entering a school in western Singapore

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Adolescent emotional and behavioural outcomes of nonparental preschool childcare
Liang, Holan, March, 2012
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 47(3), 399-407

An examination of the relationship between nonparental early child care and adolescent mental health outcomes, based on a secondary analysis of data from 197 participants in the Croydon Assessment of Learning Study in the United Kingdom

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Adult attunement and child availability: Interaction of mother and caregiver with three-year-old Kibbutz children
Eshel, Yohanan, 2000
Infant Mental Health Journal, 21(6), 411-427

An investigation of adult attentiveness and intrusiveness in dyadic relations between children and their mothers and caregivers, in a sample of 33 three-year-old Kibbutz children in Israel

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Adult-child processes and early schooling
Pianta, Robert C., 1997
Early Education and Development, 8(1), 11-26

A discussion on the relationship of school outcomes to social processes

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Adult-child relationships in early childhood programs
Elicker, James, 1995
Young Children, 51(1), 69-78

A discussion of research on the impact of the caregiver-child relationship on healthy child development during the preschool and early elementary school years.

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Adults' and children's language in different situational contexts in Italian nursery and infant schools
Majorano, Marinella, October 2009
Child Care in Practice, 15(4), 279-297

An analysis of children’s language development, and educators’ and teachers’ child-directed speech in both Italian nursery schools for children 6 through 36 months and infant schools for children 38 through 72 months

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Adults as a context for social learning in kindergarten
Gjems, Liv, September 2009
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 17(3), 297-307

An exploration of children's expressions of other people's beliefs on a test or in a classroom environment, with a focus on children who fail the test but understand its concepts, based on observations of 6 children and their teachers from 2 classrooms in Norway

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Adults' imagination and young children's experiences of quality in early years education [Special issue]
Munn, Penny, March 2010
International Journal of Early Years Education, 18(1)

A special issue of the International Journal of Early Years Education, focusing on the adult use of imagination to create social spaces for young children

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Advancement of preschoolers' resilience: The A.R.Y.A. Project
Israelashvili, Moshe, 2003
Early Childhood Education Journal, 31(2), 101-105

A discussion of the Advancement of Preschoolers’ Resilience Project's (A.R.Y.A.) resiliency-building intervention program for 4-year-old kindergarten students in Israel

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Advancing early literacy learning for all children: Implications of the NELP report for dual-language learners
Gutierrez, Kris D., May, 2010
Educational Researcher, 39(4), 334-339

A discussion of the implications of the findings of National Early Literacy Panel for the early education of children who are dual language learners

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Advancing the language skills of young Latino children: Fresh evidence: What works
Bridges, Margaret, 2010
Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Human Development, New Journalism on Latino Children.

An overview of research on the relationship of preschool education to the English language development of Latino children

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Advancing the measurement of quality for early childhood programs that support early language and literacy development
Neuman, Susan B., 2011
In M. Zaslow, I. Martinez-Beck, K. Tout, & T. Halle (Eds.), Quality measurement in early childhood settings (pp. 51-76). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes

A review of assessment tools for the measurement of the quality of children's language and literacy development in center-based and family child care settings

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Advantages of gardening as a form of physical activity in an after-school program
Phelps, Joshua, December, 2010
Journal of Extension, 48(6), 1-7

A study of the relationship between participation in a Cooperative Extension Service after school gardening program and the self-reported physical activity levels of children, based on data from 31 children in third through fifth grade in Oklahoma

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Aesthetic experience and early language and literacy development
Johnson, Helen L., April 2007
Early Child Development and Care, 177(3), 311-320

An exploration of the connections between theory and research in language development and children’s engagement with the arts, and their implications for early childhood classroom practice

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The affective bond between preschool aged children and mentors
Moffatt, Michael J., 1997
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, New School University, New York

A study on the effects of mentoring relationships on preschool age children’s behavior within the context of Head Start programs

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