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Waldron, Chad H. – Reading Psychology, 2018
This study examined the free book giving program of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library and its influence upon storybook reading and early literacy within one county-wide setting in the United States. Family literacy and early literacy experiences are known to be critical to young children's literacy development. The study found that children who…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Emergent Literacy, Family Literacy
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Roberts, Theresa A.; Vadasy, Patricia F.; Sanders, Elizabeth A. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2020
The authors investigated the influence of teaching letter names and sounds in isolation or in the context of storybook reading on preschool children's early literacy learning and engagement during instruction. Alphabet instruction incorporated paired-associate learning of correspondences between letter names and sounds. In decontextualized…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Emergent Literacy, Teaching Methods, Alphabets
Roberts, Theresa A.; Vadasy, Patricia F.; Sanders, Elizabeth A. – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study investigated the influence of teaching letter names and sounds in isolation or in the context of storybook reading on preschool children's early literacy learning and engagement during instruction. Alphabet instruction incorporated paired associate learning of correspondences between letter names and sounds. In Decontextualized…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Emergent Literacy, Teaching Methods, Alphabets
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Scott, Amy; McNeill, Brigid; van Bysterveldt, Anne – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2020
This study investigated the impact of an emergent literacy intervention on the language quality and quantity used during shared reading interactions of 14 teenage mothers (M = 19;9, SD = 1;3) and their young children (M = 2;1, SD = 0;8). Mothers participated in a seven-week emergent literacy intervention focused on a range of behaviours they could…
Descriptors: Mothers, Early Parenthood, Program Effectiveness, Emergent Literacy
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Golloher, Andrea – Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship, 2020
Adapted shared storybook reading has been demonstrated to be effective at increasing both engagement and comprehension during shared storybook reading for elementary-aged students with exceptional needs. Research on these methods has primarily been conducted with students in self-contained elementary classrooms and has lacked evidence of…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Inclusion, Preschool Education, Preschool Children
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Nelson, Lauri H.; Stoddard, Shannon M.; Fryer, Sydney L.; Muñoz, Karen – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2019
Children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) are at risk for language and literacy delays, and parent--child book reading can contribute to developing early literacy foundations. Although many parents read with their children, some parents may be unsure how to utilize effective reading strategies to maximize literacy growth. This multiple case…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Parent Child Relationship, Story Reading, Deafness
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Golloher, Andrea N. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2018
This study investigated the use of an adapted shared reading protocol with three children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in home settings. Using a multiple baseline across participants design, this investigation replicated and extended a previous investigation by Browder et al. to children with ASD and home settings. In addition, this study…
Descriptors: Story Reading, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Family Environment
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Nevo, Einat; Vaknin-Nusbaum, Vered – Reading Psychology, 2018
The effectiveness of a literacy intervention program based on a joint interactive reading of informational science texts in increasing children's science vocabulary, language and literacy skills, delivered by the kindergarten teacher, was examined in 34 Hebrew-speaking kindergarten children exhibiting different levels of emergent literacy skills.…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Language Skills, Scientific and Technical Information
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Gonzales, Wendy; Hughes, Marie Tejero – Education Sciences, 2018
The growing diversity in schools in the United States resulting from the rising number of English learners (ELs) has put more pressure on both children and teachers. Teachers are faced with the challenge of meeting the educational needs of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners, including the unique needs of CLD children with…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Phonological Awareness, Student Diversity, Native Language
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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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Milburn, Trelani F.; Hipfner-Boucher, Kathleen; Weitzman, Elaine; Greenberg, Janice; Pelletier, Janette; Girolametto, Luigi – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2015
Purpose: The current study investigated the effects of coaching as part of an emergent literacy professional development program to increase early childhood educators' use of verbal references to print and phonological awareness during interactions with children. Method: Thirty-one educators and 4 children from each of their classrooms (N = 121)…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Faculty Development, Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education
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Dennis, Lindsay; Horn, Eva – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Early literacy skill development at the preschool level is critical for later success in learning to read and other reading-related activities. Professional development (PD), specifically coaching via performance feedback delivered through email, may provide a viable alternative to other types of trainings (e.g. workshops) that are often…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Faculty Development, Teacher Behavior, Story Reading
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LaCour, Misty M.; McDonald, Connie; Tissington, Laura D.; Thomason, Gina – Reading Improvement, 2013
This study sought to determine if, by providing parents with a workshop on the use of dialogic reading techniques during the storybook reading event in the home, Pre-Kindergarten children's attitude and interest in reading would improve. Parents completed a survey prior to the workshop and two months following completion of the workshop. Through…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Reading Improvement, Reading Attitudes
Kelley, Elizabeth Spencer; Goldstein, Howard; Spencer, Trina D.; Sherman, Amber – Grantee Submission, 2015
This early efficacy study examined the effects of an automated storybook intervention designed to promote school readiness among at-risk prekindergarten children. Story Friends is a small-group intervention in which vocabulary and question-answering lessons are embedded in a series of storybooks.A randomized group design with an embedded…
Descriptors: Intervention, Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, At Risk Students
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Nielsen, Diane Corcoran; Friesen, Lisa Dinner – Reading Psychology, 2012
This study investigated the effect of a small-group storybook-based intervention on kindergarten students' vocabulary and narrative development, which is important to later reading achievement. Twenty-eight kindergarten children from a high-poverty urban school, all significantly behind their peers on standardized measures of language development…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Intervention, Semantics, Syntax
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