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2008-09 kindergarten screening results and voluntary prekindergarten (VPK) education program: 2009-10 fact sheet
Florida. Department of Education, 2010
Tallahassee: Florida, Department of Education.

A presentation of results from an assessment of children’s school readiness, with a focus on children’s emergent literacy skills, based on data on children who attended, voluntary prekindergarten, non-voluntary prekindergarten, or did not attend prekindergarten

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Aboriginal young children's language and literacy development: Progress, promising practices, and needs
Ball, Jessica, April 2007
London, Ontario, Canada: Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network.

A compendium of information on the speech and language development of aboriginal children under six years old living in Canada, and a proposal for a national strategy to support the language and literacy development of these children

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Aboriginal young children's language and literacy development: Progress, promising practices, and needs [Executive summary]
Ball, Jessica, April, 2007
London, Ontario, Canada: Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network.

A summary of a compendium of information on the speech and language development of aboriginal children under six years old living in Canada, and a proposal for a national strategy to support the language and literacy development of these children

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Acoustic analysis of lexical tone in Mandarin infant-directed speech
Liu, Huei-Mei, July 2007
Developmental Psychology, 43(4), 912-917

A comparison between the acoustics and inflection of language of Mandarin-Chinese mothers when speaking to their 10-12 month-old infants and when speaking to adults, based on vocal recordings of 16 mothers

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Acquisition of hearing, listening and speech skills by and during key stage 1
Robinshaw, Helen, August 2007
Early Child Development and Care, 177(6 & 7), 661- 678

An examination of the relationship between effective classroom teaching and factors that may affect listening and speech skills in children between the ages of 5 and 7, including classroom acoustic environments, reduced hearing sensitivity, and underdeveloped listening skills

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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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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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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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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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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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African American preschoolers' language, emergent literacy skills, and use of African American English: A complex relation
Connor, Carol McDonald, August 2006
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49(4), 771-792

An examination of the relation between Head Start African American preschoolers' use of African American English and their language and emergent literacy skills

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Age and schooling effects on emergent literacy and early reading skills
Crone, Deanne A., 1999
Journal of Educational Psychology, 91(4), 604-614

A longitudinal study examining age and schooling on emergent literacy and early reading skills, based on a sample of 337 children from low-income backgrounds

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Age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic patterns in early computer use: A national survey
Calvert, Sandra L., 2005
American Behavioral Scientist, 48(5), 590-607

A study of computer use patterns in children 6 months to 6 years of age focusing on the influences of age, gender, ethnicity, income, parental education, and family structure and the relationship between computer screen time and reading skills

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All children are ready to learn: An emergent versus readiness perspective in early literacy assessment
Erickson, Karen A., August 2000
Seminars in Speech and Language, 21(3), 193-203

A discussion of the differences between emergent literacy and reading readiness and a description of Marie Clay's contribution to assessing reading readiness as well as strategies to help implement her assessment techniques with young children with special needs

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All children ready for school: Communication, language, and literacy
Dixon, Susan D., 2006
(Early Childhood Briefing Paper Series). Bloomington, IN: Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Early Childhood Center.

A discussion of children's outcomes associated with cognitive development and early literacy skills, including information on best practices in early childhood to promote optimal outcomes

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Alphabet knowledge in preschool: A Rasch model analysis
Drouin, Michelle, Q3 2012
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(3), 543-554

An examination of the dimensions of the alphabet knowledge construct and the relative difficulty of different alphabet knowledge tasks--uppercase letter recognition, names, and sounds, and lowercase letter names--within a sample of 335 children recruited from 15 child care and preschool facilities in Fort Wayne, Memphis, and New York City

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An analysis of early literacy assessments used for instruction
Meisels, Samuel J., 2001
(CIERA Report No. 2-013). Ann Arbor, MI: Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement.

A literature review analyzing assessments used to obtain instructionally relevant information about the literacy performance of children in kindergarten through third grade

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An analysis of Utah’s K-3 Reading Improvement Program
Makkonen, Reino, June 2007
(Issues & Answers, REL 2007-No. 002). Washington, DC: Regional Educational Laboratory West.

An analysis of the adherence to state legislation of school districts and charter schools receiving matching state funds through Utah’s Reading Improvement Program

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Anchoring in 4- to 6-year-old children relates to predictors of reading
Banai, Karen, August, 2012
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 112(4), 403-416

Two studies of anchoring--a process that allows individuals to implicitly benefit from contextual information embedded in sequences of stimuli--one that examines the relationship between anchoring and rapid naming and phonological short-term memory in children prior to the onset of formal reading instruction, and a second study that examines the unique contribution that anchoring makes to performance in two early predictors of reading--letter knowledge and phonological awareness--with the first study based on data from 55 children attending municipal preschools in and around Haifa, Israel, and the second study based on data from 69 native Hebrew-speaking children attending municipal preschools in Northern Israel

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Assessment and decision-making in early childhood education and intervention
Strand, Paul S., April 2007
Journal of Child and Family Studies, 16(2), 209-218

An account of the use of an inductive-experimental teaching assessment model to improve children’s letter recognition scores at a Head Start center

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Assessment and early instruction of preschool children at risk for reading disability
Hindson, Barbara, 2005
Journal of Educational Psychology, 97(4), 687-704

An evaluation of an intervention to detect developmental delays of emergent literacy skills in preschool students, based on a sample of 169 students in Sydney, Australia

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Association between nonmaternal care in the first year of life and children's receptive language skills prior to school entry: The moderating role of socioeconomic status
Geoffroy, Marie-Claude, May, 2007
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48(5), 490-497

A longitudinal examination of the role of family socioeconomic status in the relationship between nonmaternal child care in the first year of life and young children's developing language skills

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Attitudes about shared reading among at-risk mothers of newborn babies
Berkule, Samantha B., January-February 2007
Ambulatory Pediatrics, 7(1), 45-50

An examination of low income, multi ethnic mothers' attitudes in terms of shared book reading with their infants, the number of books in their homes and the relation between sociodemographic characteristics and the mothers' attitudes

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Between the Lions: Mississippi Literacy Initiative
Prince, Debra L., July 15, 2002
Mississippi State: Mississippi State University, The Early Childhood Institute.

An investigation of the effect of an early literacy program based on the “Between the Lions” television series on the reading skills of children from low-income communities (including Native American communities) in Mississippi

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Between the Lions: Mississippi Literacy Initiative [Executive summary]
Prince, Debra L., July 15, 2002
Mississippi State: Mississippi State University, The Early Childhood Institute.

A summary of an investigation of the effect of an early literacy program based on the “Between the Lions” television series on the reading skills of children from low-income communities (including Native American communities) in Mississippi

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