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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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Vaknin-Nusbaum, Vered; Nevo, Einat – Reading Psychology, 2017
The effectiveness of a joint interactive storybook reading program delivered by class teachers to develop literacy skills is examined in Hebrew-speaking preschool and kindergarten children. Post-intervention, both groups achieved significantly higher gains in language and print concept skills than age-matched comparison groups that did not have…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Young Children, Books
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Mahasneh, Randa Ali; Romanowski, Michael H.; Dajani, Rana Basem – Journal of Environmental Education, 2017
Traditionally, education in various forms has been used as a tool to change values and behavior in children regarding the environment. This study reports findings from the We Love Reading Program that utilizes the reading of Social Stories in various communities in Jordan to address the environmental problems of Jordan. Results indicated the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Reading Programs, Behavior Change
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Lingo, Amy Shearer – Education and Treatment of Children, 2014
This study evaluated the effectiveness of high school tutors' implementation of "Great Leaps Reading" (Campbell, 1998), a reading fluency supplementary instructional program. The program consists of three sections: phonics, sight word phrases, and story passages. Daily 15-minute tutoring sessions involved repeated 1-minute timings of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Tutoring, High School Students
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Denton, Carolyn A.; Solari, Emily J.; Ciancio, Dennis J.; Hecht, Steven A.; Swank, Paul R. – Elementary School Journal, 2010
This pilot study examined an implementation of a kindergarten summer school reading program in 4 high-poverty urban schools. The program targeted both basic reading skills and oral language development. Students were randomly assigned to a treatment group (n = 25) or a typical practice comparison group (n = 28) within each school; however,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Summer Programs, Listening Comprehension, Quasiexperimental Design
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Aram, Dorit – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
The study examined the differential contributions on vocabulary and alphabetic skills of three literacy programs: (a) storybook reading program; (b) alphabetic skills program; and (c) a combined program. It was expected that storybook reading would enhance primarily vocabulary while alphabetic skills training would promote primarily alphabetic…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Reading Skills, Story Reading, Reading Programs
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Kamps, Debra; Abbott, Mary; Greenwood, Charles; Arreaga-Mayer, Carmen; Wills, Howard; Longstaff, Jennifer; Culpepper, Michelle; Walton, Cheryl – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2007
This experimental/comparison study of secondary-level, small-group instruction included 318 first- and second-grade students (170 ELL and 148 English-only) from six elementary schools. All schools served high numbers of ELL students with varying school SES in urban and suburban communities. Experimental schools implemented a three-tier model of…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Experimental Schools, Intervention
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Giambo, Debra A.; McKinney, James D. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2004
The primary aim of this study was to determine whether a phonological awareness intervention promoted oral English proficiency more than a story-reading condition for Spanish-speaking kindergarten children, most of whom were limited English proficient. A second aim was to determine the extent to which change in English proficiency over the course…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Vocabulary, Statistical Analysis, Kindergarten