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Sascha Couvee; Loes Wauters; Harry Knoors; Ludo Verhoeven; Eliane Segers – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Background: Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children may experience difficulties in word decoding development. Aims: We aimed to compare and predict the incremental word decoding development in first grade in Dutch DHH and hearing children, as a function of kindergarten reading precursors. Methods and procedures: In this study, 25 DHH, and 41…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Decoding (Reading), Word Recognition, Deafness
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Sylvia Liu; Barry Lee Reynolds; Nathan Thomas; Ali Soyoof – SAGE Open, 2024
This review was conducted to explore the use of digital technologies with young children in early childhood language and literacy education. It centers on peer-reviewed empirical journal articles published during the past two decades. An initial sample of refereed journal articles (N = 631) was compiled from systematically searching the Web of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Skill Development, Young Children, Language Skills
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Hassunah-Arafat, Safieh Muhamad; Aram, Dorit; Korat, Ofra – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
The study focuses on the beliefs of Arabic-speaking mothers in Israel relating to early literacy, and the relations between their beliefs and their children's actual early literacy skills. Participants included 113 mothers and their 5-6-year-old preschool children. At the families' homes, mothers reported about the richness of the home literacy…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Semitic Languages, Socioeconomic Status, Family Environment
Fatimah Hafiz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The current study aimed to investigate Saudi preschool teachers' beliefs about emergent literacy skills and practices. To this end, an explanatory, sequential mixed methods research design was adopted. The study involved two phases. The first involved a Q methodology approach to answer the overarching questions, "What are Saudi preschool…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Beliefs, Emergent Literacy, Teaching Methods
Wackerle-Hollman, Alisha K.; Durán, Lillian K.; Miranda, Alejandra – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2020
For young Spanish-English dual language learners (SE-DLLs), early literacy skills, including phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge in Spanish as well as English, are crucial to their reading success. However, there is a lack of research about how SE-DLLs develop early literacy skills, and how their rates of performance can inform…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Spanish Speaking, At Risk Persons, Skill Development
Wackerle-Hollman, Alisha K.; Durán, Lillian K.; Miranda, Alejandra – Grantee Submission, 2020
For young Spanish-English dual language learners (SE-DLLs), early literacy skills, including phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge in Spanish as well as English, are crucial to their reading success. However, there is a lack of research about how SE-DLLs develop early literacy skills, and how their rates of performance can inform…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Spanish Speaking, At Risk Persons, Skill Development
Soto, Xigrid T. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Young children's emergent literacy skills, particularly phonological awareness (PA) and alphabet knowledge (AK), are two of the strongest predictors of future reading skill. There is limited research evaluating the effectiveness of emergent literacy interventions on the dual language PA and AK skills of at-risk Latino preschoolers who are Dual…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Phonological Awareness, Alphabets, Predictor Variables
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Strang, Tara M.; Piasta, Shayne B. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
In the present study, we examined patterns of code-focused emergent literacy skill growth for children from lower and higher socioeconomic (SES) families enrolled at a high-quality early childhood center. Measures of letter name knowledge, letter sound knowledge, alliteration, and rhyming were collected at three time points over the course of the…
Descriptors: Children, Emergent Literacy, Socioeconomic Status, Early Childhood Education
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Bengochea, Alain; Justice, Laura M.; Hijlkema, Maria J. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
This study serves as an initial inquiry regarding the early print knowledge of emergent bilingual preschool-age children living in an Indigenous community in Mexico. In this research, we examine various dimensions of print knowledge with Yucatec Maya-Spanish bilingual children for whom one of their languages (Yucatec Maya) is seldom seen in print…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, American Indian Languages, Spanish, Bilingualism
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Cho, Jeung-Ryeul; McBride, Catherine – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
The present study examined the relations of maternal literate support instructions during parent--child joint writing to children's word reading and writing across 1 year among 95 4- and 5-year-old children from Korea. The whole episode of mothers individually teaching their children how to write words was videotaped, and a Korean scale of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Korean, Parents as Teachers
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Viljaranta, Jaana; Kiuru, Noona; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Silinskas, Gintautas; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Educational Psychology, 2017
The majority of previous research on academic skills, self-concept of ability and interest has deployed the variable-oriented approach and focused on self-concept, or ability, or interest only. This study examined the patterns and dynamics of pattern change in Finnish children's word reading skill, self-concept of ability and interest from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Self Concept, Reading Ability
Sundman-Wheat, Ashley N. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined the effects of a parent-led intervention focused on developing children's early literacy skills within the home setting. The lesson plans contain scripted steps for completing activities to teach letter names and phonological awareness skills. Archival data were analyzed from a study conducted with 26 families from three…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Parent Role, Parents, Preschool Children