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Hart Barnett, Juliet – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2018
Research demonstrates young children with autism and other developmental disabilities can benefit from participation in play activities with peers. Play provides opportunities to increase social skills across developmental domains in an integrated manner and provides opportunities to develop a sense of belonging and friendship; these goals…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Preschool Teachers
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Parks, Amy Noelle; Bridges-Rhoads, Sarah – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2012
As part of a renewed focus on early childhood mathematics education, researchers have recently called for increased attention to preschool mathematics curricula. This article, which is based on a multiyear ethnographic study in a rural preschool primarily serving African American children, contributes to this area of interest by documenting the…
Descriptors: Scripts, African American Students, Ethnography, Minority Group Children
Barchers, Suzanne I; Pfeffinger, Charla R. – Greenwood Press, 2007
Readers theatre is a presentation by two or more participants who read from scripts and interpret a literary work in such a way that the audience imaginatively senses characterization, setting, and action. This book offers 50, two-page reproducible scripts to entice the preschool and kindergarten group into beginning to read. These patterned…
Descriptors: Oral Interpretation, Theater Arts, Beginning Reading, Reading Instruction
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Goldstein, Howard; Schneider, Naomi; Thiemann, Kathy – Topics in Language Disorders, 2007
This article provides an overview of 3 approaches to peer-mediated intervention that have been effective in improving the social and communicative interactions among young children with autism and other developmental disabilities and their classmates without disabilities. These empirically supported peer-mediated interventions involve teaching…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Teaching Methods, Intervention, Developmental Disabilities