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O'Keefe, Casey – Topics in Language Disorders, 2018
This article provides a review of problems associated with teachers' talk and indicators of higher quality teachers' talk for use with lower socioeconomic status (SES) Head Start students. Then it shows how one Head Start teacher, called Michele in this article, responded to professional development that was aimed at increasing the quality of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Discourse Analysis, Story Reading, Books
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Sullivan, Susan; Oakhill, Jane – Topics in Language Disorders, 2015
In this article, we review the skills that have been found to be related to good story comprehension in novice readers with normal hearing and describe the relative weight each plays. The relationship between effective story comprehension and lower level skills (such as syntactic awareness and vocabulary knowledge) is considered, and the casual…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Story Reading, Reading Skills, Syntax