Responding to the needs of young Latino children: State efforts to build comprehensive early learning systems
A discussion of the need for the development of state-supported systems for early childhood education and care to address the needs of Latino children and English language learners
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Something to say: Children learning through story
Selected findings of the use of story as a construct for development and learning from part of a larger qualitative study of an early childhood integrated curriculum for multilingual children
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Teaching English learners: Building on cultural and linguistic strengths
A study of Head Start classroom interactions to illustrate the influence of discourse analysis when used in attmpts to change teacher images of diverse children from deficit-based to strengths-based based on classroom observations and video recordings over the course of the 2007-2008 academic year
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Telling stories and making books: Evidence for an intervention to help parents in Migrant Head Start families support their children's language and literacy
A study of mothers' language supportive behavior and childrens' words during shared narratives for 75 Spanish-speaking preschoolers in attendance at a Migrant Head Start program randomly assigned to Storytelling for the Home Enrichment of Language and Literacy Skills (SHELLS) or control conditions
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Understanding school readiness abilities of bilingual Latino Head Start children and the differences among Latin American regions
A study of differences in oral language, cognitive, and early literacy/numeracy abilities in both English and Spanish in groups of bilingual Latino Head Start children from different Latin American regions, based on data collected from 202 study participants in five counties in Florida, at 29 Head Start sites
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