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Wolf, Gail M. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This comparative, descriptive study examined the relationship between text-type use and early literacy outcomes of English language decoding ability. The representative sample was 80 grade 1 students receiving reading instruction using English language materials with a focus on the Spanish speaking, Hispanic English Language Learner (ELL) using…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), English Language Learners, Hispanic American Students, Literacy
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Kormi-Nouri, Reza; Moradi, Ali-Reza; Moradi, Shahram; Akbari-Zardkhaneh, Saeed; Zahedian, Haedeh – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
The aim of the current study was to examine the effects of bilingualism on letter and category fluency tasks. Participants were 1,600 monolingual and bilingual children from three cities in Iran: Tehran (Persian monolinguals), Tabriz (Turkish-Persian bilinguals), and Sanandaj (Kurdish-Persian bilinguals). We separately presented nine Persian…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Language Proficiency
Tendall, Rosita Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of the study was to explore the possible effects of music activities, specifically singing and movement on certain reading test scores in beginning and pre readers in a Reading First school. Participants were 8 kindergarten and 17 first grade students (N=25) at a Reading First elementary school in an urban school district in the…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Kindergarten
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Menon, Shailaja; Hiebert, Elfrieda H. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2005
This study examined the effectiveness of a little book curriculum in facilitating the independent word-solving skills of first-grade readers. The curriculum was based on a theoretical model that identified two critical dimensions of text-based support for beginning readers: linguistic content and cognitive load. The 15-week little book…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Linguistics, Intervention, Anthologies