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Parent Teaching, Cumulative Instability and School Readiness for Children Attending Head Start Preschool
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Kriebel, Dawn K.; Brown, Eleanor D. – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This study investigated relations between parent teaching, cumulative instability/chaos and school readiness in a group of 130 children attending a Head Start preschool. Cumulative instability/chaos negatively predicted fall school readiness as well as spring school readiness. Parent teaching did not predict fall school readiness but did predict…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parents as Teachers, School Readiness, Preschool Children
Mothers' and Caregivers' Interactive and Teaching Behavior with Toddlers
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Klein, Pnina S.; Feldman, Ruth – Early Child Development and Care, 2007
Interactive behavior of 90 Israeli toddlers was observed with mothers and caregivers in one-on-one free play interactions. Children were examined with the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, and adults completed self-report measures. Observations were coded for both the quality of adult-child interactive behavior and for the quality of adults'…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Caregivers, Play, Mothers
Influences of Language and Parental Involvement on the Development of Counting Skills: Comparisons of French- and English-Speaking Canadian Children.
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Lefevre, Jo-Anne; Clarke, Tamara; Stringer, Alex P. – Early Child Development and Care, 2002
Examined performance of Canadian French- and English-speaking preschoolers on four number tasks. Found that French-speaking preschoolers performed more poorly on rote-counting and number-recognition than English-speaking preschoolers. Found no difference between groups on counting objects. Variability in counting and number recognition was…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computation, English, Family Environment