Beyond the pages of a book: Interactive book reading and language development in preschool classrooms
An article on the effects of an interactive reading intervention on the language skills of preschool children.
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A book reading intervention with preschool children who have limited vocabularies: The benefits of regular reading and dialogic reading
A study of the effects of storybook reading on the acquisition of vocabulary for preschool children who have poor vocabulary skills
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Books and Good Stuff: A strategy for building school to home literacy connections
A description of the Books and Good Stuff (BAGS) program, and a discussion of its use in the support of family literacy practices
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Books make a difference: A study of access to literacy
An examination of Books Aloud, an early literacy intervention and the project’s impact on children’s early literacy skills
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The Boots Books for Babies project: Impact on library registrations and book loans
An overview of the Boots Books for Babies project, which was designed to increase awareness with parents and caregivers of infants of the importance of shared book reading with infants and an evaluation of the impact of the project on the number of infants registering as members of participating libraries
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Bright Futures Early Reading First: Year three summary evaluation report
An evaluation of the Bright Futures Early Reading First project, which provides professional support to teachers implementing early literacy curricula in Madison Parish, Louisiana, that examined children's literacy outcomes, professional development and classroom quality, and parent involvement
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Bringing it all together: The multiple origins, skills, and environmental supports of early literacy
A study of the origins, skills and environmental supports of early language and literacy
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Building a literacy community: The role of literacy and social practice in early childhood programs
A study of ways to strengthen existing literacy practices for children, families, and teachers in both rural and urban child care settings, based on qualitative studies of a publicly funded child care center in Northern California and two Head Start programs in the Midwest
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Building strong literacy foundations, birth to three years
A demonstration of early literacy outcomes associated with the Support at Home for Early Language and LiteracieS (SHELLS) program for families with children aged birth to three in disadvantaged areas of Australia, based on interviews conducted with 69 participants in 2003
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Case studies of First 5 School Readiness Initiative: Promising programs and practices: A focus on early literacy
An inquiry into the ways in which school readiness (SR) initiative programs promote early literacy among children, based on case studies of First 5 School Readiness Initiative programs from 10 sites across California
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A case study of children's literacy development in a voluntary pre-kindergarten classroom
A study of oral language and literacy development strategies and opportunities available to at risk 4-year-old children in a public voluntary pre-kindergarten, and a comparison of children's expressive and receptive vocabulary and early reading development both prior to and after one year in the program, based on data from 3 teachers and 13 children in one inclusive classroom
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Children's comprehension of narrative picture books
An inquiry into children’s comprehension of wordless picture books, based on a sample of 158 students in kindergarten to second grade, assessed using the Narrative Comprehension of Picture Books task (NC task), and a study on the usefulness of the NC task on various groups of children, based on a subsample of 92 children
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Children's literature and early literacy success: Using the Charlotte Zolotow award collection in early childhood teacher education
Arguments for the use of high quality children's literature by early childhood educators in children's emergent literacy instruction
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Children's story retelling as a literacy and language enhancement strategy
A synthesis of 11 research studies on the relationship of the characteristics and conditions of children's story retelling to their story-related comprehension and expressive vocabulary
Literature Review
Children With autism illuminate the role of social intention in word learning
A comparison of the impact of methods of social interaction on word learning among autistic and non-autistic children between the ages of 2 and 5, based on observational data
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Closing the gap early: Implementing a literacy intervention for at-risk kindergartners in urban schools
An examination of the impact of a kindergarten tutoring program on the oral-language and emergent-literacy skills of children over course of the kindergarten school year for 51 children in the treatment compared to 45 children in the comparison group in a bilingual kindergarten in central Canada
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Comparing four literacy reform models in high-poverty schools: Patterns of first-grade achievement
A quasi-experimental evaluation of low income, minority group first graders' literacy achievement and development after participating in one of four early literacy models: Building Essential Literacy, Developing Literacy First, Literacy Collaborative, Success for All
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A comparison of phonological awareness, lexical compounding, and homophone training for Chinese word reading in Hong Kong kindergartners
A comparison of the impact of lexical compounding, homophone awareness, and phonological awareness on children's Chinese word reading, based on data from 11 teachers and 88 children in 11 kindergarten classes in Hong Kong
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Comparison of phonological training procedures in kindergarten classrooms
A comparison of the effects of two phonological training procedures--segmenting and blending versus first sound identification and rhyming--on the literacy skills of kindergarten children with poor literacy skills
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Comparison of preschoolers' narratives, the classroom book environment, and teacher attitudes toward literacy practices in Korea and the United States
A comparison between American and South Korean preschoolers' personal narrative maturity levels, imagination levels in fictional narratives, classroom fiction and non-fiction book environments, and their teachers' attitudes toward early language and literacy curricula and practices, based on interviews with a total of 70 3- and 4-year-olds and their teachers at a university lab preschool in each country
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A comparison of two phonological awareness techniques between samples of preschool children
A study comparing the methods of Sound Box and Sound Sort instruction their impact on the development of phonological awareness skills among preschool children
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A computer-assisted instruction phonological sensitivity program for preschool children at-risk for reading problems
A study of the use of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) to provide training in phonological sensitivity skills to preschoolers at risk for reading problems
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Connecting children's stories to children's literature: Meeting diversity needs
A discussion of combining children’s natural storytelling abilities with multicultural literature to enhance language skills and appreciation of cultural differences
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Constructing a family literacy program: Challenges and successes
An experimental study using semi-structured parent interviews to construct an Australian family literacy program to improve low income preschool children's literacy
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Contexts of reading instruction: Implications for literacy skills and kindergarteners' behavioral engagement
A study the relationships among both kindergarten word-reading and phonological awareness and behavioral engagement, off-task behavior and instructional time in four instructional contexts: teacher or child-managed children's attention, or content or meaning focused instruction, based on data from 170 kindergarteners in 36 classrooms
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