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Bedore, Lisa M.; Peña, Elizabeth D.; Collins, Penelope; Fiestas, Christine; Lugo-Neris, Mirza; Barquin, Elisa – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2023
Purpose: There are well-established links between oral language and reading development in monolingual English-speaking children that are associated with literacy outcomes. Oral language, defined relative to lexical quality, provides key support for developing early reading skills. For bilingual children, the connection between oral language and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Bilingual Students, Literacy
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Baylis, Pamela; Snowling, Margaret J. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2012
This article reports the evaluation of a 10-week phonologically-based literacy programme involving 10 children with Down syndrome (DS). At the outset, each child relied on a whole word method of reading with no apparent use of decoding strategies. The reading and phonological skills of the children were assessed twice prior to undertaking the…
Descriptors: Phonology, Alphabets, Orthographic Symbols, Down Syndrome
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Caesar, Lena G.; Nelson, Nickola Wolf – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2014
This pilot study examined the feasibility of a home-school partnership for improving emergent literacy skills in Spanish-speaking pre-school children of migrant farmworkers. Parents were requested to send labeled drawings of family activities to their children's classroom for supplementing bilingual language and literacy instruction. Participants…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Family School Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Emergent Literacy