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Peer Reviewed JournalCurrent Filters: Pub Year:1998 [remove]; Classification:Child Development & School Readiness [remove];
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100 children go to school: Connections and disconnections in literacy development in the year prior to school and the first year of school An investigation into the correlation between the acquisition of emergent literacy skills and the early experiences of children in school settings, based on a sample of 100 children from five locations in Australia |
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Assessing Readiness A discussion of the definition and assessment of children’s school readiness, including recommendations for the components of efficient performance assessments |
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Assessing readiness A report presenting four approaches to defining readiness and the methods used by each perspective to assess children entering formal schooling |
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The Be A Star community-based after-school program: Developing resiliency factors in high-risk preadolescent youth A description of the Be a Star community-based after-school program and an evaluation of its effectiveness in helping children develop decision making skills, feelings of personal competence, cultural awareness, and refusal skills |
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Birth to kindergarten: The importance of the early years: A comprehensive review of the literature and a series of policy options for early childhood interventions in response to a request by Senator Dede Alpert A review of literature examining child outcomes in relation to early childhood experiences, including family influence, home environment, and child care programs; current policy issues and legislative suggestions are discussed. |
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Characteristics of children's early care and education programs: Data from the 1995 National Household Education Survey [Executive summary] A summary of an inquiry into the child care characteristics necessary to adequately facilitate children’s development, based on the 1995 National Household Education Survey |
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Child care caregiver sensitivity and attachment An overview of three studies measuring the impact of child care caregivers' sensitivity on children's attachment security |
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Child development and emergent literacy This article introduces a typology of early literacy domains with a review of literature to support the adoption of the typology |
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Children's exposure to everyday stressors in day care settings: A descriptive study A descriptive study of child stressors in a child care environment |
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Community child care inclusion: The development of two children An analysis of the progression of children with severe disabilities within a child care setting using a play-based curriculum |
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Comparing developmental outcomes for children in care with those for other children in Canada A study of the test-retest reliability and convergent validity of single items from the Assessment and Action Record, including comparison of the developmental outcomes of 43 children cared for by the Canadian child welfare agency and those of an approximate comparison group of 1600 children from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth |
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A comparison of the effect of the type of classroom and service characteristics on toddlers with disabilities A study of the effects of early intervention services, in a segregated versus inclusive classroom, on the developmental outcomes of toddlers |
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Cultural worlds of early childhood A text with multiple authors reflecting on issues of cultural variation in early childhood development and education, using examples from Cameroon, Guatemala, Italy, Japan and the United States |
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Day care and early childhood settings: Fostering mental health in young children A study of designing high quality mental health child care programs for at-risk young children |
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Daycare, child and family influences on preschoolers' social behaviors in a peer play setting A study on the impact of previous child care experiences on preschoolers’ temperament and social behavior |
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Early child care and self-control, compliance, and problem behavior at twenty-four and thirty-six months A study into factors of family and child care experiences as predictors of self-control, compliance and problem behavior in children |
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Early childhood education in Iceland: ''Play and Print'' An overview of Play and Print, an Icelandic early education project that improved preschool children's literacy skills through the use of role-playing and creative activities involving print literature |
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Early childhood initiatives in the States: Translating research into policy An examination of several state legislative child care policies and initiatives either enacted, pending, or defeated in response to recent brain development findings, particularly the discovery that babies’ brains develop more rapidly and earlier than was before thought |
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An ecological perspective on the voluntary book use of 2- and 3-year olds in day care A study of voluntary book use in preschool settings where book rotation and the number of books available had occurred among a sample of 74 children and their teachers |
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The effects of daycare reconsidered A study of the effects of child health at birth, mother ratings of child development, and child temperament on the timing of post-birth maternal labor force entry, based on mothers and their children in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 |
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The effects of developmentally appropriate preschool experience on at-risk children's logical-mathematical skills A study of the effects of developmentally appropriate high-quality preschool providing hands-on activities and a play-based curriculum on the logical-mathematical skills of at-risk children, with a control group of 160 children and a treatment group of 106 children between the ages of four and five |
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Effects of differing levels of inclusion on preschoolers with disabilities A comparative study of the effects of three different types of preschool inclusion programs (special education only, integrated special education, and mainstream placements) on the cognitive and language development of preschool children with special needs |
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The effects of the home instruction programs for preschooler youngsters (HIPPY) on children's school performance at the end of the program and one year later A study of the Home Instruction Program for Preschooler Children, a costless two year family-oriented home-based early childhood intervention administered to low-income children; the study included assessments of the children’s cognitive skills, adaptation to the classroom, and standardized test achievement at the end of the program |
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The effects of Smart Start child care on kindergarten entry skills An examination of the effects of Smart Start-funded programs on the cognitive, language, and social skills of children entering kindergarten in Orange County, California, emphasizing the impact of family income, based on results from the Kindergarten Teacher Checklist rating scale on a group of 39 kindergarteners who attended a Smart Start funded program and a group of 272 children who attended other child care programs or received no center-based care |
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Emergent literacy: Instructional and curricular basics and implications Highlights of research on literacy practices that impact reading acquisition and development and can be aligned with a set of curriculum design principles to develop a better match between individual literacy experiences and the design of beginning reading instruction |
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