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Bridges between Home and School Literacy: Social Bases for Early School Literacy.
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Pellegrini, Anthony D.; And Others – Early Child Development and Care, 1997
Defines early literacy in terms of literate language, a register of language typified by verbally explicated meaning and talk about talk. Explores various social arrangements which support children's use of literate language. Examines the roles of diverse and close social contacts, and the ways in which individual differences mediate these…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Behavior, Educational Environment, Emergent Literacy
Parental Beliefs about Ways to Help Children Learn to Read: The Impact of an Entertainment or a Skills Perspective.
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Sonnenschein, Susan; And Others – Early Child Development and Care, 1997
The Early Childhood Project is a longitudinal investigation of contexts in which children from different sociocultural groups learn to read. Data collected from 41 families showed some consistency between parental beliefs on fostering reading development (entertainment versus skills perspective) and nature of experiences made available to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cultural Context, Educational Environment, Family Involvement
The Role of Shared Reading in the Development of Phonological Awareness: A Longitudinal Study of Middle to Upper Class Children.
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Burgess, Stephen – Early Child Development and Care, 1997
Tested assumption that variability in home literacy environments has no effect on individual differences in reading development. Found that variability in shared reading interactions was significantly related to growth in phonological awareness even after accounting for the effects of age, oral language, and phonological awareness at the beginning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Environment, Family Involvement, Individual Differences