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Hobbs, L. Jon; Overby, Melanie – Grantee Submission, 2017
UPSTART is a federally funded i3 validation project that uses a computer-based program to develop the school readiness skills of preschool children in rural Utah. Researchers used a randomized control trial design to evaluate the impact of the program in advancing children's early literacy skills. Preschoolers in the experimental group were…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Preschool Education, School Readiness, Emergent Literacy
Grover, Susan Hendricks; Cranney, A. Garr – 1982
This report presents a history of the Deseret alphabet, beginning with a chapter on English orthography in general and the various attempts that have been made in orthographic reform. The second chapter examines the motives behind the creation of the Deseret alphabet, including the possibilities of a secret Mormon code, a protection from…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Diachronic Linguistics, Educational History, Letters (Alphabet)
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Culatta, Barbara; Hall, Kendra; Kovarsky, Dana; Theadore, Geraldine – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2007
In a federally funded early literacy project, various instructional activities were embedded into an array of classroom contexts to provide supplemental literacy instruction and to contrast children's engagement and participation in different contexts and participant structures. The study was conducted with English- and Spanish-speaking children…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Rhyme, Emergent Literacy, Classroom Environment