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Lingwood, Jamie; Billington, Josie; Rowland, Caroline – Journal of Research in Reading, 2020
Background: Shared reading interventions can impact positively on preschool children's language development and on their caregiver's attitudes/behaviours towards reading. However, a number of barriers may discourage families from engaging with these interventions, particularly families from lower socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds. We…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Instruction, Attendance, Preschool Children
Forry, Nicole; Anderson, Rachel; Zaslow, Martha; Chrisler, Alison; Banghart, Patti; Kreader, J. Lee – National Center for Children in Poverty, 2011
The Community Connections preschool program (herein referred to as Community Connections) was developed to help prepare children in home-based child care for success in school and in life. It has three goals: (1) to make state prekindergarten classroom experiences available to children in home-based care, (2) to extend classroom learning…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Child Language, Toddlers, Child Care
Belme, Jillian – 1981
The influence of five programs of the Mt. Druitt Early Childhood Project on the development of preschool children's vocabulary and syntactical skills was assessed in a pretest/posttest design. Programs differed in the amount of structure they imposed on the language experiences of the children and in the content they specified. Different measures…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Metham, John – 1978
This paper reports upon the evaluation and implementation of a 30-item Likert-type rating scale for teachers to use in assessing children's behaviors within preschool classrooms. The Preschool Observation Scale (POS) was developed to evaluate programs of the Mt. Druitt Early Childhood Project, North Ryde, Australia. Items were constructed on the…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Anxiety, Behavior Rating Scales, Child Language
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Greenberg, Mark T.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Evaluates a comprehensive intervention program for deaf children under age three in Vancouver, British Columbia. Twelve subjects were compared with a matched sample of children undergoing less-systematic intervention. Results indicated more developmentally mature communication and higher quality interaction in families who had received…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Infants
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Lynch, Joanne – 1992
The second year of the International Academy for Bilingual Education and Bicultural Studies program in New York City is described. The program provided instructional and support services to 40 Chinese- and English-speaking students in one pre-kindergarten and one kindergarten class at P.S. 1 in community school district 2. Half of the students…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Language, Chinese, Cultural Awareness