African American preschoolers' language, emergent literacy skills, and use of African American English: A complex relation
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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All children ready for school: Communication, language, and literacy
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
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Book reading styles in dual-parent and single-mother families
An observational study of shared book reading to determine if there are variations in reading methods between mothers without a partner and mothers and fathers from dual-parent families
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"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
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Child and maternal contributions to shared reading: Effects on language and literacy development
A longitudinal study of the effects of mother-child home literacy practices on children's expressive and receptive language development, letter knowledge, and knowledge of print concepts from 18 to 42 months of age
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Collaborative efforts to promote emergent literacy and efficient word recognition skills
A discussion of three models of collaboration between speech-language pathologists and teachers to help improve and promote emergent literacy and word recognition skills
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Conceptualizing phonological processing skills in prereaders
A review of research on the link between the acquisition of reading skills in preschool children and activities that require sensitivity to, or manipulation of, the sounds in words
Other
Connections between early literacy and social behavior
A summary of a longitudinal study following low-income children from kindergarten through fifth grade that explores the relation between aggression and prosocial behavior and literacy achievement
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Constructing a joint story-writing space: The dynamics of young children's collaboration at computers
An examination of how kindergarten and first grade children collaborated during a computer writing project in order to explore the nature of peer collaboration
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Contemporaneous and longitudinal associations between social behavior and literacy achievement in a sample of low-income elementary school children
A longitudinal study following low-income children from kindergarten through fifth grade to explore the relation between aggression and prosocial behavior and literacy achievement
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Contributions of the home literacy environment to preschool-aged children's emerging literacy and language skills
A cross-sectional and longitudinal study of the influence of parents' demographic characteristics, literacy habits, reading beliefs, and literacy and language activities with the child on preschoolers' literacy and language development
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Cross-cutting themes and future research directions
A discussion of the depth and bredth and needs for further research on the language acquisition skills of second-language learners
Other
Cross-linguistic relationships in working memory, phonological processes, and oral language
A review of research findings on the relationships between the working memory, phonological processes, and oral language in second-language learners
Literature Review
Cultural diversity in early literacy: Findings in Dutch studies
Results of studies of early language and literacy development in 3 to 7 year old Dutch, Surinamese-Dutch, and Turkish-Dutch children, analyzing how socioeconomic, linguistic, and cultural variables affected their acquisition of reading skills
Other
Development, assessment, and promotion of preliteracy skills
A review of current research findings on the development of skilled reading in early elementary grades, its developmental precursors, and advances in the early identification of children at risk for reading difficulties
Literature Review
Development of literacy
A systematic overview of research on the development of phonological skills, print awareness, and word reading skills in English language learners
Literature Review
The development of phonological sensitivity
An overview of the role of preschool children’s phonological sensitivity development in subsequent reading development
Other
Early educational interventions: Principles of effective and sustained benefits from targeted early education programs
A summary of research findings, from the mid 1960s to date, on the effects of early educational interventions on the language and cognitive outcomes and later educational achievement of at risk preschool children
Other
Early language and reading development of bilingual preschoolers from low-income families
A review of studies discussing factors known to affect early language and emergent literacy skills and the effects of poverty and home literacy environments on bilingual preschool children's phonological awareness and letter knowledge
Literature Review
Early literacy development: Skill growth and relations between classroom variables for preschool children
A study of the correlation between classroom quality and emergent English literacy skill development in preschool children, including groups of children considered at-risk due to poverty, native language, or speech-language disability, based on a sample of 69 children ages three- through five-years-old from two urban school districts
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The effectiveness of looping on kindergarten readiness
An examination of the effects of a two-year looping rotation on four-year-old children's emergent literacy skills and school readiness as compared with young children participating in traditional grade-level rotation
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The effect of family literacy interventions on children's acquisition of reading from kindergarten to grade 3: A meta-analytic review
A review of experimental studies of the impacts of parent-child reading interventions on kindergarten through third grade children's literacy development
Literature Review
The effect of questioning style during storybook reading on novel vocabulary acquisition of preschoolers
A study of the impact of different questioning styles on preschool children's comprehension of new words during shared storybook reading
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Effects of junior kindergarten on emerging literacy in children from low-income and linguistic-minority families
An examination of the impact of prekindergarten on low income, linguistic-minority four-year-old children as compared with emergent literacy of linguistic-majority children at the end of the prekindergarten year
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The effects of professional development for early childhood educators on emergent literacy
An examination of the effects of early educator professional development sessions on preschool children's emergent literacy skills and an analysis of a new instrument (Language Arts Objective Sequence) to establish its concurrent validity with often utilized instruments
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