When they make a mistake while sounding out a word, say the word correctly once or twice and then let the child go on, says Julianne Barto, a school librarian manager and literacy specialist at KIPP Whittier Middle School in Camden, New Jersey. “Reading should still b...
THE LANGUAGE AND LITERACY SPANISH-SPEAKING PRESCHOOLERSHammer, Carol ScheffnerPh, D
This systematic review of research on early childhood programs seeks to identify effective approaches capable of improving literacy and language outcomes for preschoolers. It applies consistent standards to determine the strength of evidence supporting a variety of approaches, which fell into two main cate...
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the efficacy of a new preschool oral language and early literacy curriculum package ( Teaching Early Literacy and Language [ TELL]) for children with developmental speech and/or language impairment (DSLI) either as a primary (e.g., specific to ...
Who is it for? Ages 5 years, 0 months to 9 years, 11 months Phonological and Print Awareness Scale (PPA Scale™) What does it do? Measures early literacy skills, specifically phonological and print awareness, and allows examiners to easily track development ...
(2003). Promoting language and literacy development through parent-child reading in Hong Kong preschoolers. Early Education and Development, 14, 233-248.Chow, B. W., & McBride-Change, C. (2003). Promoting language and lit- eracy development through parent-child reading in Hong Kong ...
The current study examines the nature and variability of parents' aid to preschoolers in the context of a shared writing task, as well as the relations between this support and children's literacy, vocabulary, and fine motor skills. In total, 135 preschool children (72 girls) and their parent...
Consequently, researchers have devoted considerable attention to designing and testing systematic, explicit interventions for preschoolers to improve their language and literacy skills in such areas as phonological awareness, print knowledge, and vocabulary knowledge (e.g., Justice, McGinty, Piasta, Kader...
The current study examines the nature and variability of parents’ aid to preschoolers in the context of a shared writing task, as well as the relations between this support and children's literacy, vocabulary, and fine motor skills. In total, 135 preschool children (72 girls) and their paren...
Despite the widespread use of multimodal pedagogies in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) contexts, empirical studies specifically focusing on the impact of hands-on learning on target vocabulary and procedural knowledge acquisition in CLIL