Children's prelitercy skills: Influence of mothers' education and beliefs about shared-reading interactions
A study of the association of children's preliteracy skills with maternal education and home literacy activities, and an examination of the mediating variable of maternal beliefs about literacy activities, among 45 mothers and their preschoolers from a small Appalachian community
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Descriptive-developmental performance of at-risk preschoolers on early literacy tasks
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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Does intensity matter?: Preschoolers' print knowledge development within a classroom-based intervention
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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Emergent literacy intervention for vulnerable preschoolers
A study of the effects of an emergent literacy program on preschoolers’ reading and writing foundations, based on a sample of 18 at-risk preschoolers in Virginia
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An experimental evaluation of an intervention to stimulate written language awareness in preschool children from low-income households
An inquiry into the relationship between hearing a book being read and the development of literacy skills, based on a sample of 30 children aged 2- to 5- years old enrolled in a Head Start program
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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
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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The impact of teacher responsivity education on preschoolers' language and literacy skills
A study of the effects of teacher conversational responsivity training on preschoolers' language and literacy development over an academic year, with additional analyses of the relationship between language development and both entry level language skills and teachers' frequency of use of specific responsivity strategies, based on data from 230 children and their 49 teachers in 38 diverse early care and education centers
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Increasing young children's contact with print during shared reading: Longitudinal effects on literacy achievement
An examination of the impact of different weekly dosage levels of a 30-week intervention during which preschool teachers systematically referenced print during shared reading on preschoolers' early literacy, both 1 and 2 years later, based on data from 366 children in 85 preschool classrooms
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Language and literacy curriculum supplement for preschoolers who are academically at risk: A feasibility study
A study of the effect of Read It Again! (RIA), a low-cost scripted language and literacy curriculum supplement, on children's literacy and language skills based on a comparison of the scores of 137 children in experimental and control classrooms in 14 schools over the course of a year
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The literacy environment of preschool classrooms: Contributions to children's emergent literacy growth
An examination of the associations between the physical and psychological literacy environment of preschool classrooms, the extent to which physical and psychological literacy environments of preschool classrooms are associated with children's literacy gains over an academic year, and the extent to which relationships between the physical literacy environment and children's literacy gains are moderated by the psychological literacy environment, based on data from 30 preschool teachers and 209 children from their classrooms
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Long-term effects of print referencing on literacy achievement
A summary of an examination of the impact of different weekly dosage levels of a 30-week intervention during which preschool teachers systematically referenced print during shared reading on preschoolers' early literacy, both one and two years later, based on data from 366 children in 85 preschool classrooms
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Profiles of emergent literacy skills among preschool children who are at risk for academic difficulties
A first study to identify reliable profiles of emergent literacy among preschoolers and a second study of the predictive validity of the profiles on mid-year teacher ratings of emergent literacy and end-of-kindergarten literacy assessments, based on data from 492 at risk children in 93 publically-funded preschool programs in a Midwest state
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Relations among maternal literacy beliefs, home literacy practices, and the emergent literacy skills of preschoolers with specific language impairment
A comparison of children’s print-related literacy skills and an examination of their relationship to maternal literacy beliefs and home literacy practices in populations of 52 children with typically developing language skills (TL) and 56 children with specific language impairment (SLI)
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Theoretical explanations for preschoolers' lowercase alphabet knowledge
A study of several measures of children's letter knowledge, including the relationships among lowercase letter knowledge and uppercase familiarity, uppercase-lowercase similarity, own-name advantage, and frequency in printed English, based on data from 461 low income 3- through 5-year-olds in public preschools
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Use of storybook reading to increase print awareness in at-risk children
An article on the effects of an book-reading intervention on Head Start children's print awareness
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Word exposure conditions and preschoolers' novel word learning during shared storybook reading
A study of the influence of various word exposure conditions on children's receptive and expressive learning of novel words during shared storybook reading interactions
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