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Sonali Poudel; Kathleen Denicola-Prechtl; Jackie A. Nelson; Mohammad Hossein Behboudi; Carlos Benitez-Barrera; Stephanie Castro; Mandy J. Maguire – Developmental Psychology, 2024
The number of U.S. children living in households with extended families has greatly increased in the last 4 decades. This demographic shift calls for a reevaluation of the impact of household size on children's development. Household density (HHD), measured as the ratio of people to bedrooms in a home, has been shown to negatively relate to…
Descriptors: Family Size, Family Environment, Child Language, Child Development
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Barbara Bivar Mendes; John Robert Kirby – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2024
This paper examines the effects of a morphological awareness intervention on the word reading and spelling skills of Grades 4 to 6 children with dyslexia. Sixteen children in eastern Ontario, Canada, received 20 hours of morphologically oriented instruction spread over 6 weeks and eight served as controls, and all received a battery of reading and…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Intervention, Reading Achievement, Spelling
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Young-Suk Grace Kim; Karen R. Harris; Rebecca Goldstone; April Camping; Steve Graham – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2025
Purpose: We conducted a randomized control trial of an instructional program, SRSD Plus, which integrates reading for writing to inform, writing, oral language, spelling and handwriting for students in Grades 1 and 2. Method: A total of 10 teachers and their 248 students in Grade 1 (n = 121) and Grade 2 (n = 127) in the southwestern part of the US…
Descriptors: Reading Writing Relationship, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Grade 1