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Caroline Cohrssen; Jill Fielding; Jo Bird – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
There is growing interest in mathematics learning progressions in early childhood education. Counting is a skill usually developed early in life. The application of the counting principles in early childhood typically entails counting objects. This poses challenges for learning about zero. Indeed, the word "zero" is seldom used in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computation, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Wilson, Elspeth; Katsos Napoleon – Journal of Child Language, 2022
To better understand the developmental trajectory of children's pragmatic development, studies that examine more than one type of implicature as well as associated linguistic and cognitive factors are required. We investigated three- to five-year-old English-speaking children's (N = 71) performance in ad hoc quantity, scalar quantity and relevance…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Pragmatics, Preschool Children, Age Differences
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Luft Baker, Doris; McCoach, Betsy D.; Ware, Sharon; Coyne, Michael D.; Rattan, Susan M. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The purpose of the current study was to examine the influence of L1 (i.e. Spanish) receptive vocabulary on both expressive and receptive knowledge of target vocabulary words taught through L2 (i.e. English) instruction and intervention. Participants were Bilingual US kindergarten students determined to be at-risk based on English receptive…
Descriptors: Spanish, Vocabulary Development, Knowledge Level, English (Second Language)
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2023
Children who know fewer words in preschool typically continue to have lower levels of vocabulary knowledge in higher grades than their peers who know more words. In fact, this difference continues to be pronounced and even widens as these children reach higher grade levels. Interventions that support vocabulary development and reading…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Reading Strategies
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2023
Children who know fewer words in preschool typically continue to have lower levels of vocabulary knowledge in higher grades than their peers who know more words. In fact, this difference continues to be pronounced and even widens as these children reach higher grade levels. Interventions that support vocabulary development and reading…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Reading Strategies
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Okumura, Yuko; Kobayashi, Tessei – Infant and Child Development, 2022
Literacy exposure checklists that assess parental picture book knowledge (Parental Title Checklist [PTC] and Parental Author Checklist [PAC]) have been developed as proxy measures for literacy environments. Although previous research suggests that parental picture book knowledge is a strong predictor of language skills for preschoolers older than…
Descriptors: Mothers, Picture Books, Knowledge Level, Educational Attainment
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Knabe, Melina L.; Schonberg, Christina C.; Vlach, Haley A. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2023
The present study examined adults' understanding of children's early word learning. Undergraduates, non-parents, parents, and Speech-Language Pathologists (N = 535, 74% female, 56% White) completed a survey with 11 word learning principles from the perspective of a preschooler. Questions tested key principles from early word learning research. For…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Task Analysis, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children
Kandia Lewis; Jessica A. R. Logan; Leiah J. G. Thomas; Naomi Schneider; Cynthia M. Zettler-Greeley; Laura L. Bailet; Shayne B. Piasta – Grantee Submission, 2023
Research Findings: The current study examined whether collective small-group behavioral engagement and teacher behavior management during small-group instruction predicted print knowledge, phonological awareness, letter writing, and expressive vocabulary gains for preschoolers at-risk for literacy difficulties. This study, part of a larger…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Small Group Instruction, Child Behavior
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Kandia Lewis; Jessica A. R. Logan; Leiah J. G. Thomas; Naomi Schneider; Cynthia M. Zettler-Greeley; Laura L. Bailet; Shayne B. Piasta – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The current study examined whether collective small-group behavioral engagement and teacher behavior management during small-group instruction predicted print knowledge, phonological awareness, letter writing, and expressive vocabulary gains for preschoolers at-risk for literacy difficulties. This study, part of a larger…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Small Group Instruction, Child Behavior
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Xu, Yaoying; Liu, Lan – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
The purpose of this evaluation study was twofold: to evaluate the overall impact of an intensive early childhood literacy project on children's vocabulary knowledge and to examine the sociocultural context of the vocabulary assessment for the early literacy project. Children's language development and vocabulary knowledge was measured with PPVT-IV…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Knowledge Level, Preschool Children, African Americans
Hadley, Elizabeth Burke; Dickinson, David K. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2020
The importance of early vocabulary development to later reading comprehension has been well-established. However, there have been a number of criticisms that the assessments typically used to measure oral vocabulary knowledge do not adequately capture the complexity of this construct. This conceptual review works towards a more robust theoretical…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Grade 1
LaGamba, Elizabeth S. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
A large body of research has established the existence of a gap in vocabulary knowledge that occurs largely along socioeconomic lines, is evident prior to age two, and continues to widen as children age. Because research has shown that early vocabulary knowledge supports present and later text comprehension, interventions for supporting…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Interaction, Play, Vocabulary Development
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Dennis, Lindsay R.; Whalon, Kelly J. – Remedial and Special Education, 2021
A repeated acquisition (RA) design was used to compare the effectiveness of research-based instruction embedded in repeated storybook reading facilitated by an adult or tablet application (app) on the vocabulary knowledge of six preschool children. All participants selected scored below the 40th percentile on the "Preschool Language…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Program Effectiveness
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Moran, Ellen; Moir, Joanna – Educational & Child Psychology, 2018
Aim: This study reports on an initiative to promote vocabulary development within three nurseries serving an area with high levels of multiple deprivation. Focusing on the use of books as a mechanism to introduce and extend children's vocabulary, early years practitioners were trained and coached in the methodology of 'Word Aware'. Concurrent…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Books, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children
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Byington, Teresa A.; Kim, YaeBin – Journal of Extension, 2020
We implemented an Extension-led language and literacy training and coaching intervention targeting preschool teachers and children in low-income communities in Nevada. Participation in the intervention had a positive influence on the language and literacy instruction skills of preschool teachers and language and literacy skills of children.…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Coaching (Performance), Intervention, Preschool Children
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