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Mashburn, Andrew; Justice, Laura M.; McGinty, Anita; Slocum, Laura – Applied Developmental Science, 2016
Read It Again (RIA) is a curriculum for pre-kindergarten (pre-K) classrooms that targets children's development of language and literacy skills. A cluster randomized trial was conducted in which 104 pre-K classrooms in the Appalachian region of the United States were randomly assigned to one of three study conditions: Control (n = 30), RIA only…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Acquisition, Literacy, Child Development
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Fernald, Anne; Marchman, Virginia A.; Weisleder, Adriana – Developmental Science, 2013
This research revealed both similarities and striking differences in early language proficiency among infants from a broad range of advantaged and disadvantaged families. English-learning infants ("n" = 48) were followed longitudinally from 18 to 24 months, using real-time measures of spoken language processing. The first goal was to…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Infants