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Question Timing, Language Comprehension, and Executive Function in Inferencing
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Butterfuss, Reese; Kendeou, Panayiota; McMaster, Kristen L.; Orcutt, Elly; Bulut, Okan – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
We examined the extent to which the timing of inferential questioning influenced kindergartners' inferencing performance in a non-reading context, while also taking into account individual differences in language comprehension and executive function. Students completed the eight-week Early Language Comprehension Individualized Instruction (ELCII)…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Reading Comprehension, Inferences
Question Timing, Language Comprehension, and Executive Function in Inferencing
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Butterfuss, Reese; Kendeou, Panayiota; McMaster, Kristen L.; Orcutt, Elly; Bulut, Okan – Grantee Submission, 2021
We examined the extent to which the timing of inferential questioning influenced kindergartners' inferencing performance in a non-reading context, while also taking into account individual differences in language comprehension and executive function. Students completed the eight-week Early Language Comprehension Individualized Instruction (ELCII)…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Reading Comprehension, Inferences
Parents' Vocabulary Instruction with Preschoolers during Shared Book Reading
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Olszewski, Arnold; Hood, Rachel Lynell – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2023
Dialogic reading during shared book reading between adults and children is an effective way to promote vocabulary acquisition. However, there is limited research on what strategies parents are spontaneously using during book reading sessions, which are important to understand for optimizing parent training in dialogic reading. The current study…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Preschool Children, Story Reading, Parent Child Relationship
Investigating Affordance of Opportunity for Young Children's Language Interactions in a Nursery Setting: How Can Small Group Talk Act as a Forum for Language Learning?
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King, Sarah Elizabeth; Dockrell, Julie E. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2016
The importance of research on the unique nature of the communication supporting environment in nurseries has been heightened by growing evidence of the significance of early language skills for later academic and social development. This study focussed on children's language use during small group times. Opportunities to hear and practise language…
Descriptors: Affordances, Young Children, Nursery Schools, Foreign Countries
Print-Focused Read-Alouds in Early Childhood Special Education Programs
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Justice, Laura M.; Logan, Jessica A. R.; Kaderavek, Joan N.; Dynia, Jaclyn M. – Exceptional Children, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of print-focused read-alouds, implemented by early childhood special education (ECSE) teachers alone or in conjunction with caregivers, on the print knowledge of children with language impairment (LI). Using random assignment to conditions, children with LI were exposed, over an academic year of…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Special Education Teachers