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Hoffman, Jessica L.; Teale, William H.; Paciga, Kathleen A. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2014
There is widespread agreement with in the field of early childhood education that vocabulary is important to literacy achievement and that reading aloud can support vocabulary growth. However, there are unexplored and significant problems with the ways we assess young children's vocabulary learning from read-alouds. This paper critically reviews…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Reading Aloud to Others
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Rahn, Naomi L.; Coogle, Christan Grygas; Storie, Sloan – Journal of Special Education, 2016
An adapted alternating treatments design was used to compare the expressive use of thematic vocabulary by three preschool children with developmental delays during Dialogic Reading, a shared book reading intervention, and Activity-Based Intervention, a naturalistic play-based teaching method. The design was replicated across two early childhood…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Intervention, Thematic Approach
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Bailet, Laura Lyons; Repper, Karla; Murphy, Suzanne; Piasta, Shayne; Zettler-Greeley, Cynthia – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2013
This research examined the effectiveness of an emergent literacy intervention for prekindergarten children at risk for reading failure, to replicate and improve on significant findings from Year 1 of the study. Data are reported for 266 children in 72 child care and preschool sites in Year 2 of the study and for 374 children at 102 sites in Year…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Intervention, Preschool Children, Preschool Education