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Wilson, Allison – Childhood Education, 2022
Early language experiences are vital to children's future success in school and quality language-rich interactions can be promoted at home and around the community in many creative ways. Project ELLO (Everyday Language and Learning Opportunities) is a research-based public engagement campaign that began as a novel and efficient way to address…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Academic Achievement, Learning Experience, Language Acquisition
Kidd, Lauren; Rowland, Caroline – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2021
The purpose of this project was to investigate the effectiveness of a language-focused professional development programme on the knowledge and behaviour of preschool practitioners (sometimes called early years practitioners) in the UK. In Study 1 we determined whether the training received by practitioners is effective in improving their knowledge…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Behavior
Chavarría, Romali Rosales – Journal of Montessori Research, 2021
This work reports, from a qualitative research perspective, the development of an English Corner project for a preschool Children's House classroom in central Mexico over the course of a 3-year period. It shows the transition of a language specialist over six consecutive periods of work, from a traditional understanding and practice of teaching…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Teaching Methods, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning
Vogel, Cheri A.; Caronongan, Pia; Thomas, Jaime; Bandel, Eileen; Xue, Yange; Henke, Juliette; Aikens, Nikki; Boller, Kimberly; Murphy, Lauren – Administration for Children & Families, 2015
The Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (Baby FACES) is a descriptive study of Early Head Start programs designed to inform policy and practice at both national and local levels. Baby FACES follows two cohorts of children through their time in Early Head Start, starting in 2009, the first wave of data collection. The Newborn…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Wray, Denise; Flexer, Carol – Volta Review, 2010
A collaborative team of faculty from The University of Akron (UA) in Akron, Ohio, and Kent State University (KSU) in Kent, Ohio, were awarded a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education to develop a specialty area in the graduate speech-language pathology (SLP) programs of UA and KSU that would train a total of 32 SLP students (trainees)…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Early Intervention, Preschool Education, Oral Language

Bybee, R. W.; Hendricks, P. A. – Science Education, 1972
Describes a feasibility study in which pre-school deaf children were taught some science concepts to help increase their language development. Some evaluation data are reported. (AL)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Deafness, Handicapped Children, Language Acquisition
Guess, Doug; And Others – 1977
The report presents results of the development and field testing procedures of a computer based language library retrieval system as part of the Assessment of Language Training for Preschool Handicapped Children Project. The report focuses on the data processing system, the user's manual or thesaurus, the dissemination strategy, a cost analysis,…
Descriptors: Computers, Data Processing, Handicapped Children, Information Retrieval
Claus, Richard N.; Quimper, Barry E. – 1995
The Saginaw Prekindergarten program for educationally disadvantaged children is designed to provide 4-year-old children with an environment that will enable them to develop skills needed for future success in school. The process evaluation conducted in 1995 consisted of an on-site, half-day classroom observation at 8 of the 15 prekindergarten…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Language Acquisition
Karnes, Merle B.; and others – Amer J Orthopsychiat, 1970
Descriptors: Community Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
McKay, Don – 1981
Introducing Preschool Children to Reading through Parent Involvement is a project funded by a New York State Education Department mini-grant. The major activity of the project is to inform parents of preschool children of the research findings and theories concerning reading to young children. Three newsletters are mailed each year to families…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Innovation, Language Acquisition, Parent Participation

Suskind, Diane – Young Children, 1993
Describes Project Desert Shield, a curriculum that preschool children and teachers at a U.S. military base in Germany developed to embrace and constructively deal with the interests and concerns of the children about Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm through dramatic play. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Coping, Dramatic Play, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
This preschool program concentrated on language development, self-concept, perception, and concept formation. Also, a vertically organized program of reading, math, science, and creative dramatics, along with parent activity, inservice training, and dissemination, covered prekindergarten through the third grade. Individual and small group work…
Descriptors: Blacks, Compensatory Education, Concept Formation, Educational Games
Arizona Univ., Tucson. Arizona Center for Educational Research and Development. – 1971
This document is the fifth in a series of 12 early childhood program descriptions compiled by the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development. The program described here is the Tucson Early Education Model (TEEM) located at the University of Arizona. The model is designed for Head Start programs and kindergarten through third…
Descriptors: Administration, Costs, Early Childhood Education, Instructional Materials

Grinnell, Mary F.; And Others – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1976
Manual English, which involves signing a word with the hands while saying it, has been used successfully to develop language skills in mentally handicapped students (3-21 years old) in public schools. (SB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Education, Language Acquisition

Friedman, Jay; Koeppel, Janis – Young Children, 1990
Discusses development and implementation of a writing workshop that combined prekindergarteners' language development with first graders' writing experiences. (BB)
Descriptors: Grade 1, Language Acquisition, Multigraded Classes, Peer Relationship