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Direct linkMei-Ling Wang; Hsiao-Fang Lin; Teng-Chien Yu – SAGE Open, 2025
This study explores the relationship between the Hanzi recognition performance and the home literacy environments of 351 children aged 3 to 6 based on Montessori's philosophy of education. This study used 200 frequently spoken words in Montessori classrooms as the word set of a Hanzi recognition test, based on which studies at six Montessori…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Montessori Method, Family Literacy
Bergman Deitcher, Deborah; Johnson, Helen; Aram, Dorit – Journal of Research in Reading, 2019
Background: The current study aims to address whether boys and girls learn words differently from shared reading of informational books, which are often perceived as 'boys' books'. Methods: Forty-five mother-child dyads (Mean age = 60.4 months, SD = 6.84) were video recorded reading sets of informational and narrative trade books at home.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Reading Processes, Books
Kaiser, Irmtraud – Language Learning and Development, 2022
The present study analyses 3- to 6-year-old children's dialect-standard repertoires in an Austrian-Bavarian sociolinguistic setting and investigates how far individual repertoires can be explained by input and sociodemographic factors. Adults' linguistic repertoires in the area typically comprise a certain spectrum on the dialect-standard…
Descriptors: Dialects, Standard Spoken Usage, Gender Differences, Age Differences
Hindman, Annemarie H.; Skibbe, Lori E.; Foster, Tricia D. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
Although many studies have explored shared book reading between preschoolers and their families, very few have examined this practice within a large, nationally representative sample. Using the ECLS-B dataset, this study investigated shared reading among nearly 700 families of diverse ethnic, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Coding of…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship, Coding
Brown, P. Margaret; Byrnes, Linda J.; Watson, Linda M.; Raban, Bridie – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2013
This study investigated the relationships between children's home literacy environments and their early hypotheses about printed words in the year prior to entering school. There were 147 children (70 girls and 77 boys: mean age 57 months, range = 47-66 months, standard deviation = 4.5 months) in the study. Results showed that the children had…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Emergent Literacy, Printed Materials, Correlation
Barachetti, Chiara; Lavelli, Manuela – Early Education and Development, 2010
Research Findings: This study examined whether the communicative behaviors of preschoolers during shared-reading interactions differ according to child age or parent gender. Twenty Italian preschoolers (from 3.1 to 5.11 years) were observed during book reading with each parent separately. Communicative behaviors were analyzed according to the…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Mothers, Fathers, Preschool Children
Marjanovic-Umek, Ljubica; Fekonja-Peklaj, Urska; Podlesek, Anja – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2012
Storytelling represents an aspect of children's general language competence. The characteristics of the home literacy environment, especially joint reading between parents and children, have a significant effect on children's storytelling. The purpose of this study was to explore the age differences in the storytelling of three- to six-year-old…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Psychology, Family Environment, Picture Books
Hansen, Cory Cooper; Zambo, Debby – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2010
Relatively unexplored by research is how young boys transact and respond to literacy experiences during read-alouds. Some teachers perceive boys to be less interested in literacy and to prefer different kinds of stories than young girls. The purpose of this study was to analyze how two groups of preschool boys responded to different texts and how…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Young Children, Preschool Children, Males
Curenton, Stephanie M.; Craig, Michelle Jones – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
Dyadic shared-reading and oral storytelling practices and their association to American preschoolers' (N = 33) prosocial and problem behaviour was examined. The frequency (how often dyads read) and history (the child's age at first reading) were examined within shared-reading; emotion state talk and evaluative judgments were examined in both…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Mothers, Correlation, Language Skills
Pollard-Durodola, Sharolyn D.; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Simmons, Deborah C.; Kwok, Oiman; Taylor, Aaron B.; Davis, Matthew J.; Kim, Minjung; Simmons, Leslie – Exceptional Children, 2011
This study examined the effects of an intensive shared book-reading intervention on the vocabulary development of preschool children who were at risk for vocabulary delay. The participants were 125 children, who the researchers stratified by classroom and randomly assigned to one of two shared book-reading conditions (i.e., the experimental, Words…
Descriptors: Intervention, Oral Reading, Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development
Download full textO'Donnell, Kevin – National Center for Education Statistics, 2008
This report presents data on the school readiness of children in the United States as reported by their parents. This report incorporates basic demographic information about the children, parent/guardian characteristics, and household characteristics. These data come from the School Readiness Survey (SR) of the 2007 National Household Education…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Preschool Children, Parents, Kindergarten
Yopp, Ruth Helen; Yopp, Hallie Kay – Journal of Literacy Research, 2006
The role of informational text in primary-grade classrooms has been the subject of much discussion in recent years, and there is converging evidence that young school children have few opportunities to engage with this genre. The studies described here expand the research base to include preschool (Study 1) and home (Study 2) exposures to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
