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The home literacy environment and Latino Head Start children's emergent literacy skills An examination of children's early literacy skills in both English and Spanish at entry to preschool, and an investigation of the patterns of associations among these skills and their families' home language and literacy practices, based on data from 392 primarily Latino immigrant families and their children in 30 Head Start centers in several inner city neighborhoods of Los Angeles, California |
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Enhancing emergent literacy in a preschool program through teacher-researcher collaboration A description of an attempt by a research team to implement an emergent literacy intervention in a child-care setting in a high-poverty, Spanish bilingual setting in downtown Los Angeles, working with a particular preschool teacher in order to collaboratively develop an intervention that was truly responsive to the needs of the children and the community |
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Promoting the development of preschool children's emergent literacy skills: A randomized evaluation of a literacy-focused curriculum and two professional development models A study of the impact of a literacy-focused preschool curriculum and two types of professional development on the emergent literacy skills of at-risk children, based on data from teachers and 739 children in 48 preschools |
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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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Effective early literacy skill development for young Spanish-speaking English language learners: An experimental study of two methods An investigation of the effect of the Literacy Express Preschool Curriculum on the acquisition of emergent literacy skills by Spanish-speaking preschool children, based on a study of three groups of English language learners (ELL) from 10 Head Start classrooms in California where 32 children received the regular curriculum, 31 children received the intervention in English-only, and 31 children received the intervention in Spanish transitioning to English |
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Effectiveness of a coordinated community effort to promote early literacy behaviors A comparison of changes in family literacy behavior between the 2001 and 2003 cohorts of a coordinated multi-level community early literacy behavioral intervention that includes book distribution programs in clinical settings, child care centers, and home visitation programs for low income and mono-lingual Spanish speaking families in San Mateo County, California |
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Do early literacy skills in children's first language promote development of skills in their second language?: An experimental evaluation of transfer A study of the moderating effects of children's initial skills in one language on the impact of an intervention designed to improve those skills in a second language, based on data from 94 Spanish-speaking language minority children from 10 classes in a Head Start center in Los Angeles, California, randomly assigned to one of three intervention conditions--the HighScope Preschool Curriculum alone or the HighScope Preschool Curriculum with small-group pull-out instruction, using the activities of the Literacy Express Preschool Curriculum, in either an English-only or English-to-Spanish version |
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Developmental trajectories of preschool early literacy skills: A comparison of language-minority and monolingual-English children A comparison of the early literacy skills growth profiles over a preschool year of Spanish-speaking language-minority (LM) children and non-LM children from comparable socioeconomic backgrounds, based on data from 948 children, aged 37 to 60 months, from 30 Head Start classrooms |
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Super Why Summer Camp assessment findings: Summer 2008 An evaluation of the emergent literacy outcomes of participation in Super WHY! Reading Camp, a week-long summer literacy program for preschool-age children, based on pre- and post-test assessments of 454 children who participated in 2008 |
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Providing training to fathers in early literacy through community-university partnerships A description of Project DADS, a training program for fathers participating in early literacy activities with their children |
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Summative evaluation of the Ready to Learn Initiative: Preschool teachers can use a media-rich curriculum to prepare low-income children for school success: Results of a randomized controlled trial An investigation of the effect of the inclusion of children's video programming in the preschool curriculum on children's early literacy skills, based on a random sample of 398 low-income children aged 4 and 5 years old from 80 preschool classrooms from 47 child care centers in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area assigned to receive a 10 week technology-supported literacy curriculum or a 10 week technology-supported science curriculum comparison group |
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Supplementing literacy instruction with a media-rich intervention: Results of a randomized controlled trial A study of the effects of a curriculum supplement that employs content from Public Broadcasting System (PBS) educational programs on the early literacy skills of low income preschoolers, with an analysis of the moderating influence of mothers' education and children's eligibility for subsidized meals on those effects, based on data from 436 children in 80 preschool classrooms in New York City and the San Francisco metropolitan area |
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Literacy promotion for families participating in the Women, Infants, and Children program An investigation into the effect of a bilingual early literacy intervention on both academic measures of children's school readiness and the children's home literacy environments, based on information from 102 families who received four years of the intervention, 103 families who received 2 years of the intervention, and 200 families in a control group from Los Angeles County, California |
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Yes We Can...Read!: Results from year 1: 2010-2011 An evaluation of the Yes We Can...Read! Children's Initiative, an early literacy program incorporating parent engagement workshops, family literacy nights, and community volunteer mentors, that examines program implementation, changes in parent engagement and home literacy practices, and children's attitudes toward reading and literacy skills, based on teacher logs and feedback, mentor and parent surveys, and child surveys and assessments |
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Pathways to reading: The role of oral language in the transition to reading A study of the relationship between preschool oral language skills and reading performance in early elementary school, based on data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development |
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Responsiveness of students with language difficulties to early intervention in reading A study of the effects of small group, short term phonemic awareness, alphabetic understanding, and oral language reading interventions on the language skills of 78 randomly assigned kindergartners with language difficulties |
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The effect of curriculum, coaching, and professional development on prekindergarten children’s literacy achievement A study of the effect of Southern California’s Preschool Literacy Project, which provides a specialized curriculum, teacher coaching, a print-rich environment, and professional development opportunities to teachers, on the literacy scores of the participating children, based on data collected from 22 state preschool classrooms serving children from low income families |
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Home literacy environment and phonological awareness in preschool children: Differential effects for rhyme and phoneme awareness An examination of the relationship between the home literacy environment and activities (storybook exposure, frequency of shared reading) and preschool children's phoneme awareness |
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Relationships among preschool English language learner’s oral proficiency in English, instructional experience and literacy development A comparison of the gains in English proficiency and comprehension among low-income preschoolers attending 16-weeks of English instruction in either a comprehension-based or letter/rhyme decoding-based program, based on a population of 38 native English, Spanish, and Hmong speakers |
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Mother-child bookreading in low-income families: Correlates and outcomes during the first three years of life An investigation of the impact of mother-child book reading on low income young children's cognitive and language development as well as an examination of book reading in relation to the Early Head Start intervention using data from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project |
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Effects of a literacy curriculum that supports writing development of Spanish-speaking English learners in Head Start Findings from an investigation of the effect of a literacy curriculum on the acquisition of writing skills by English language learners in a Head Start program, based on a sample of 76 Spanish-speaking students from 6 child care centers in California assigned to groups that received either a writing development intervention, a vocabulary building intervention, or control group conditions |
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Teacher qualifications, classroom practices, family characteristics, and preschool experience: Complex effects on first graders' vocabulary and early reading outcomes A study of the association of teacher qualification and observed classroom practice as they relate to children’s vocabulary and early reading skills, based on an ecological model incorporating children’s language and word recognition skills prior to school entry, their home and preschool learning environments, and family socio-economic status |
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Third national Even Start evaluation: Program impacts and implications for improvement Findings from the third national evaluation of the federal Even Start family literacy program, including a description of the program and its participants, and a discussion of program impacts based on data from an experimental study of Even Start's effectiveness in 18 projects |
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Home literacy exposure and early language and literacy skills in children who struggle with behavior and attention problems A study of the relationships of the behavior and attention problems and of the early home literacy environment, as well as of the interaction between the two, to the language and literacy skills of 4-year-olds, based on data for 1,364 children from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development |
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Evaluation of the PBS Ready to Learn Cell Phone Study: Learning Letters with Elmo A study of the use of cell phones to deliver PBS literacy programming to low income families with preschoolers |
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