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What Works Clearinghouse, 2022
Based on recent research and in collaboration with expert panelists, the What Works Clearinghouseâ„¢ (WWC) has provided practical recommendations for preschool educators to use to help prepare young children benefit from learning opportunities they will encounter in school. The "Preparing Young Children for School Practice Guide" details…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, School Readiness, Evidence Based Practice
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Burchinal, Margaret R.; Krowka, Sarah; Newman-Gonchar, Rebecca; Jayanthi, Madhavi; Gersten, Russell; Wavell, Samantha; Lyskawa, Julia; Haymond, Kelly; Bierman, Karen; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; McClelland, Megan M.; Nelson, Kimberly; Pentimonti, Jill; Purpura, David J.; Sachs, Jason; Sarama, Julie; Schlesinger-Devlin, Elizabeth; Washington, Julie; Rosen, Emily – What Works Clearinghouse, 2022
By learning social-emotional, executive function, mathematics, and literacy skills in preschool, children are likely to be better prepared for the higher expectations and more formal curriculum in elementary school. Ensuring that all children are well prepared for elementary school is a priority for parents, caregivers, guardians, and policy…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, School Readiness, Evidence Based Practice
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Heppner, Denise H. – Language and Education, 2016
The focus of this research was on examining a play-based, child-centered instructional technique known as story telling/story acting (ST/SA) within a Canadian preschool setting. The goal was to examine the changes that occurred in the narrative features of preschool children's stories, and to investigate whether ST/SA fostered emerging literacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Teaching Methods, Story Telling
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Brand, Susan Trostle; Marchand, Jessica; Lilly, Elizabeth; Child, Martha – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2014
Combining home-school literacy bags with preschool family literature circles provided a strong foundation for family involvement at home and school during this year-long Reading Partners project, and helped parents become essential partners in their children's literacy development. Using home-school literacy bags, children and parents learned…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Parent Participation, Home Study, Classroom Environment
Phillips, Beth M.; Phelan, Jennifer Levine – Florida Center for Reading Research, 2014
The VPK Learning Center Activities included with this guide are aligned with the Language, Communication and Emergent Literacy Domain within the Florida Early Learning and Developmental Standards for Four-Year-Olds (2011). Although the goal was not to create an activity to represent each and every standard and benchmark, most standards are…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Preschool Education, Learning Centers (Classroom), Students with Disabilities
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Lonigan, Christopher J.; Allan, Nicholas P.; Lerner, Matthew D. – Psychology in the Schools, 2011
The importance of the preschool period in becoming a skilled reader is highlighted by a significant body of evidence that preschool children's development in the areas of oral language, phonological awareness, and print knowledge is predictive of how well they will learn to read once they are exposed to formal reading instruction in elementary…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy, Educational Needs, Oral Language
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Olofsson, Ake – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2008
The present paper reports some observations on pre-school children's spontaneous as well as adult-supported spelling behaviour and makes comparisons between aspects of these early literacy activities and some features of spellings from mostly twelfth- to fourteenth-century Norwegian runic inscriptions. The runic inscriptions originate from a…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Orthographic Symbols, Emergent Literacy, Latin
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Connor, Carol McDonald; Morrison, Frederick J.; Slominski, Lisa – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
Preschoolers' (N = 156) classroom language and literacy experiences, defined across multiple dimensions, and their vocabulary and emergent literacy development were investigated. Videotaped classroom observations revealed substantial variability in amount and types of language and emergent literacy activities, across classrooms and for individual…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy, Alphabets