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Kreul, William Robert – 1975
The efficacy of a school district training parents to teach prereading skills to their four-year-old children through home-based learning activities was investigated. The method used to evaluate the effects of the experimental program was to test a sample of the experimental group and a control group upon matriculation to kindergarten in September…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Parent Participation, Parent Role, Parent Student Relationship
Pinson, Sharon Lesley – 1982
To gain additional information about how young children actually develop and use literacy before entering school, four young children were studied indepth by means of family questionnaires, reading age tests, diagnostic subskill tests, and miscue analysis. Five months later, the children were again tested to see if reading age had increased and if…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Early Experience, Early Reading, Language Acquisition
Harty, Kathleen Fahey – 1975
The purpose of this study was to compare the characteristics of kindergarten readers with those of children who entered kindergarten but could not read. One hundred thirty children were identified as readers and 130 children were randomly selected from each of the readiness and non-readiness groups in the Madison, Wisconsin public schools. A…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Failure, Kindergarten Children
Scott, Mari Gumm – 1974
The Kindergarten Home Learning Kit was developed to ameliorate the educational deficit of disadvantaged kindergarten children by providing toys and learning materials to work with in the home. Each of the eight sequential kits also contains an illustrated instructional letter to the parents. Two groups of 25 disadvantaged kindergarten children…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Doctoral Dissertations, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience
Peta, Erminio Joseph – 1973
The purpose of this study was to measure the gains that culturally different 4-year-old children made in reading readiness activities and the acquisition of a sight vocabulary when exposed to an extensive prekindergarten reading intervention program. The subjects of the study were selected initially from a group of volunteer families. The subjects…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Doctoral Dissertations, Early Reading, Prereading Experience
Keys, Delpha Bostock – 1975
A kindergarten pre-reading program was designed based upon Piagetian and Montessorian theory. During the pilot study, pre-reading experiences, materials and games were created to encourage individual diagnosis and specific pre-reading skills assessment. The following year the investigator conducted a descriptive study of the program's…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Inservice Teacher Education, Kindergarten Children
