Acceptability and importance of adaptations to early literacy learning practices for young children with disabilities
Findings from a study of early childhood intervention professionals' attitudes toward practices contained in parent guides to promote the early literacy development of young children that include adaptations for use with children with disabilities
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Advancing early literacy learning for all children: Implications of the NELP report for dual-language learners
A discussion of the implications of the findings of National Early Literacy Panel for the early education of children who are dual language learners
Other
Assessing and creating effective preschool literacy classroom environments
A discussion of approaches both to develop and to assess early literacy preschool classroom environments and advice to ensure that the physical surroundings exert a positive influence on literacy learning
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Assessing children's needs
A discussion of select issues central to assessment in early care and education that includes conventional testing as a complement of informal assessment practices and a case study of one teacher's efforts to coordinate the results of multiple assessments for planning decisions
Reports & Papers
'At a school like this': Implementing policy in a kindergarten reading program
A case study of the influence of early literacy policy on the practice of a teacher over the period of one year
Reports & Papers
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
Reports & Papers
Case study of a successful rural Early Reading First implementation
A case study of the implementation of an Early Reading Frist program in rural Twiggs County
Reports & Papers
Case study of a successful urban implementation
A select account of the implementation of Early Reading First in 3 urban settings
Other
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
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
Reports & Papers
Critical perspectives on Danish early childhood education and care: Between the technical and the political
A discussion of trends in the early childhood education and care policy of Denmark related to both literacy and language curriculum, standardized testing, and pedagogy, based on various policy documents and material from research projects of the authors
Other
A descriptive review and meta-analysis of family-based emergent literacy interventions: To what extent is the research applicable to low-income, ethnic-minority or linguistically-diverse young children?
A description of 31 studies of family-based emergent literacy interventions for 2- through 6-year-olds, a meta-analysis of a subset of 14 experimental or quasi-experimental studies on the effects of the interventions on young children's literacy skills, and an examination the representativeness of the research for low-income, ethnic-minority and linguistically-diverse young children
Literature Review
Developing early literacy skills: A meta-analysis of alphabet learning and instruction
A meta-analysis of the effects of instruction and instruction type on alphabet outcomes from 63 studies and 82 independent contrasts
Literature Review
Developing social skills training and literacy intruction pedagogy through service learning: An integrated model of teacher preparation
An examination of the experiences of preservice teachers (PSTs) and students in a service learning tutoring program, based on data from 27 PSTs and their students who participated in either the Tutor-Assisted Intensive Learning Strategies (TAILS) or Book Partners (BP) programs for kindergarten and first-grade students at risk for literacy development delays
Reports & Papers
Development and readability of the Center for Early Literacy Learning parent practice guides
Findings from a study of the readability of parent guides to practices to promote the early literacy development of young children
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Dimensions of literacy coaching with Head Start teachers
A study of the content, pedagogical emphasis, and progression of literacy instructional improvement plans for Head Start preschoolers, based on a secondary analysis of 1,504 instructional improvement plans developed by coaches and teachers over 280 coaching sessions across the 31 classrooms
Reports & Papers
Early Reading First graduates go to kindergarten: Are achievement gains enduring?
A comparison of early literacy and social skills achievement gains of 97 Early Reading First Head Start graduates and 97 comparison children in the spring of their kindergarten year from the Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) 2003 cohort
Reports & Papers
Effectiveness of the Early Literacy and Learning Model (ELLM) with instructional support
A two-year longitudinal study of the impact of an early literacy curriculum and instructional support system on children's early literacy skills, based on prekindergarten assessment data collected from 221 treatment and 245 control children in 48 randomly assigned classrooms, and on kindergarten follow-up assessment data collected from 87 treatment and 92 control children
Reports & Papers
The effect of extending the pre-kindergarten school day on literacy and language development for English language learners
A study of the relationship between extended-day bilingual preschool participation and both language and reading levels as well as reading gains in both Spanish and English of 41 bilingual prekindergarten children and a second study of the relationship of extended-day bilingual preschool participation and both receptive and expressive language skills at the end of prekindergarten for 121 children in a large suburban school district in Texas
Reports & Papers
Effects of a cross-linguistic storybook intervention on the second language development of two preschool English language learners
An account of changes in child-initiated utterances and responses to others in English during large circle reading time after a shared dialogic book reading experience using a Spanish translation of a book in the children's homes and an English edition of the same title in a Head Start center, for 2 children
Reports & Papers
Effects of a preschool bilingual family literacy programme
An account of the development, implementation, and evaluation of a bilingual family literacy program with 8 Pakistani-origin families in terms of children's literacy outcomes and parents' views of the program, as part the Sheffield Raising Early Achievement in Literacy (Sheffield REAL) project
Reports & Papers
The effects of summer reading programs on low-income English language learners' and low-income English L1s' reading achievement in grades 2-4
An experimental comparison of effect of 3 summer programs on the reading achievement of 94 disadvantaged English language learners (ELLs) and disadvantaged students who speak English as a first language (ELls) in 2nd through 4th grade, 1 group who received a weekly home visit and new books from the school staff, a second group of students who took 10 books home over the summer, and a control group who was given a reading log
Reports & Papers
The effects of vocabulary intervention on young children's word learning: A meta-analysis
An exploration of the efficacy of vocabulary interventions on children's vocabulary skills and an examination of optimal methodologies to achieve better outcomes for children's vocabulary, based on an analysis of 111 studies on the effect of vocabulary intervention on young children's vocabularies
Reports & Papers
Effects of the writing center in a kindergarten classroom
A study of the effects of participation in writing center activities on writing ability for 19 kindergarten children randomly assigned to a center and a control condition in a suburban public school
Reports & Papers
Efficacy of supplemental phonics-based instruction for low-skilled kindergarteners in the context of language minority status and classroom phonics instruction
A study of the effects of supplemental code-oriented tutoring on the literacy scores of below-average students, and an examination of variations in the effects by language minority status, classroom instruction time, and pretest measures of vocabulary, based on data from randomly assigned samples of 81 kindergarteners receiving only classroom instruction and 67 students receiving supplemental tutoring at 10 urban public schools
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