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
Reports & Papers
Access to print for children in poverty: Differential effects of adult mediation and literacy-enriched play settings on environmental and functional print tasks
An article on the effects of adult interaction and literacy environment on literacy development in Head Start children.
Reports & Papers
The acquisition of literacy: Reframing definitions, paradigms, ideologies, and practices
A discussion of a contextual theory of literacy acquisition, which views literacy as related to an individual's construction of self and environment
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The acquisition of literacy skills in 4 and 5 year olds
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
Reports & Papers
Alphabet and phonological awareness: Can it be enhanced in the early childhood setting?
A proposal to use professional development to increase teachers' understandings of both the alphabet principle and phonological awareness and to implement them both within a holistic curriculum and within the context of children’s play, based on literacy research conducted in New Zealand
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Alphabetic anxiety and explicit, systematic phonics instruction: A cognitive science perspective
An examination of the role of the alphabet in children’s acquisition of early literacy skills
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America's early childhood literacy gap
An overview of children's early literacy development, the early literacy skills gap between children from low-income and middle-income families, and the role of early interventions in reducing the gap
Fact Sheets & Briefs
An analysis of a public school prekindergarten Montessori bilingual program
An analysis of second grade reading achievement scores of Spanish and English norm-referenced tests between children who participated in a Montessori bilingual program and those that attended a traditional bilingual program
Reports & Papers
Assessing the literacy for young children: The case for multiple forms of evidence
A review of the issues in assessing young children’s literacy and strategies to improve classroom based assessments
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An assessment of students in a content-based English language development curriculum for an after-school program
An evaluation of an after school program curriculum designed to improve students' English language development
Reports & Papers
Assessment: Profiling literacy with young indigenous children
A summary of results from a study examining the reliability and validity of a preschool profile tool designed to assess factors that influence early literacy development of young, Australian, indigenous children
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At a loss for words: How America is failing our children and what we can do about it
An argument for the importance of raising awareness, among parents, policy makers, and child care providers, of the role of early literacy skills in reducing the achievement gap
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Becoming literate in the city: The Baltimore Early Childhood Projects
A longitudinal study examining the literacy development of African American and European American children with low-income and middle-income backgrounds between prekindergarten and third grade
Reports & Papers
Beginning literacy with language: Young children learning at home and in school
An edited text with multiple authors reporting on research regarding the relationship between early interactions and children's language and literacy skills, as part of the Home School Study of Language and Literacy Development
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Beginning reading instruction: Towards levelling the playing field
A comparison of the reading-related test scores of 7 children before and after an 8 week shared reading intervention, based on data collected from 6 voluntary participant low income families living in a small city in New South Wales
Reports & Papers
The Between the Lions American Indian Literacy Initiative research component: Report prepared for the United States Department of Education
An investigation of the influence of the Between the Lions television program on American Indian children’s early literacy skills, based on a two-year study of Head Start children from 11 aboriginal communities in New Mexico
Reports & Papers
Between the Lions and literacy outcomes: The role of literacy manipulatives and parasocial relationships
A research update of a study of the impact of viewing Between the Lions, an educational television program, and of the additional impact of various literacy manipulatives, on the early language and literacy development of preschool and early elementary school children, based on pre- and post-intervention assessments of children in treatment and control classrooms
Fact Sheets & Briefs
"Boundary crossing": Negotiating understandings of early literacy and numeracy pathways
An exploration of activities to facilitate the acquisition of early literacy and numeracy skills by young children, based on a study of 65 children in the year prior to school entry in Victoria, Australia
Reports & Papers
Brains, genes, and environment in reading development
A discussion of the research of genetics versus environmental influences on children's literacy
Other
A case study examination of culturally relevant pedagogical practices for English-language learners in a pre-kindergarten classroom setting
A qualitative study of culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) in a prekindergarten classroom for English-language learners and an investigation of the ways 2 teachers promote academic success, cultural competence and critical consciousness, based on documentation from and observations of a classroom in Georgia
Reports & Papers
'Cause they trust their parents, don't they?': Supporting literacy in the first three years of life
A presentation of parent’s perceptions of their interactions with their young children participating in the Support at Home for Early Language and Literacies (SHELLS) early literacy support program in Australia
Reports & Papers
Challenging ethnocentric literacy practices: (Re)positioning home literacies in a Head Start classroom
An account of select observed classroom literacy activities, designed to relate to the home literacy environments of minority children, over the course of one academic year in the classroom taught by 2 participants in Freirean culture circle professional development activities
Reports & Papers
Child care and the development of young children (0-2)
An overview of the results of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care, including the effects of child care quality on young children's cognitive and language development, peer relations, behavior problems, and mother-child interactions
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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 coming to know literacy
A discussion of the roots of literacy as a metaphor for early childhood literacy development, and its application to children across various sociocultural, linguistic, and ethnic backgrounds
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