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Zoll, Susan; Feinberg, Natasha; Saylor, Laura – Teachers College Press, 2023
Teaching reading successfully requires deep knowledge of the reading process and development, as well as the implementation of impactful reading instruction and differentiation. This book aligns Montessori didactic materials and pedagogy, developed over a century ago, with current research on reading development. Readers will gain a solid overview…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Teaching Methods, Instructional Materials, Reading Instruction
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2015
"Shared book reading" (also known as "interactive shared book reading") encompasses practices that adults can use when reading with children, which are intended to enhance young children's language and literacy skills. During "shared book reading," an adult reads a book to an individual child or a group of children…
Descriptors: Young Children, Beginning Reading, Reading Aloud to Others, Emergent Literacy
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Allen, Thomas E.; Letteri, Amy; Choi, Song Hoa; Dang, Daqian – American Annals of the Deaf, 2014
A brief review is provided of recent research on the impact of early visual language exposure on a variety of developmental outcomes, including literacy, cognition, and social adjustment. This body of work points to the great importance of giving young deaf children early exposure to a visual language as a critical precursor to the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Preschool Children, Longitudinal Studies
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Furnes, Bjarte; Samuelsson, Stefan – Journal of Research in Reading, 2009
The importance of cognitive and language skills on reading and spelling development were investigated in a cross-linguistic longitudinal study of 737 English-speaking children (US/Australia) and 169 Scandinavian children (Norway/Sweden) from preschool to Kindergarten and Grade 1. The results revealed that phonological awareness and print knowledge…
Descriptors: Spelling, Early Reading, Linguistics, Phonological Awareness
Knight-McKenna, Mary – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2009
Preventing reading difficulties in the early grades has been a topic of interest for more than a decade. Research has clearly delineated the components needed for early literacy programs to be effective in teaching nearly all children to learn to read. Teacher educators have a responsibility to ensure that candidates gain extensive knowledge about…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Education Courses, Literacy Education, Prevention
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Lafferty, Addie E.; Gray, Shelley; Wilcox, M. Jeanne – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2005
Alphabetic knowledge is a strong predictor of academic success. This multiple baseline across subjects study examined the effect of an intensive intervention on the alphabetic knowledge of four pre-school children ages 3;7 to 4;10. Two children with developmental language delay (DLD) and two with typical language development (TL) participated in a…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Preschool Children, Intervention, Language Acquisition
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Justice, Laura M.; Pence, Khara; Bowles, Ryan B.; Wiggins, Alice – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2006
This study tested four complementary hypotheses to characterize intrinsic and extrinsic influences on the order with which preschool children learn the names of individual alphabet letters. The hypotheses included: (a) "own-name advantage," which states that children learn those letters earlier which occur in their own names, (b) the…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Alphabets, Influences, Preschool Children