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Direct linkLepola, Janne; Kajamies, Anu; Laakkonen, Eero; Collins, Molly F. – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The present study examined children's listening comprehension during a two-semester-long dialogic reading. We explored the extent to which the development of children's listening comprehension was accounted for by initial listening comprehension and whether children's engagement and the amount and level of their verbal…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Reading Aloud to Others, Verbal Communication, Preschool Children
Collins, Molly F. – Reading Teacher, 2023
Much attention has been paid to storybook reading as a context for supporting preschoolers' emergent language and literacy. Inferential thinking is essential to listening comprehension and to reading comprehension. Understanding the story deeply and reasoning about events and characters are central to children's enjoyment and to comprehension…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Student Diversity, Race, Socioeconomic Status
Download full textDickinson, David K.; Nesbitt, Kimberly T.; Collins, Molly F.; Hadley, Elizabeth B.; Newman, Katherine; Rivera, Bretta L.; Ilgez, Hande; Nicolopoulou, Ageliki; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy – Grantee Submission, 2019
This paper reports results from two studies conducted to examine word learning among preschool children in group book reading while we developed a scalable method of teaching words during book reading. We sought to identify factors that fostered both depth and breadth of learning by varying the type of information children heard about words while…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Preschool Children, Story Reading
Collins, Molly F. – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: This study examines the effects of low- and high-cognitive demand discussion on children's story comprehension and identifies contributions of discussion, initial vocabularies, and parent reading involvement. A total of 70 English learner preschoolers took baseline vocabulary tests in Portuguese and English, were randomly…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Story Reading, Reading Comprehension
Schickedanz, Judith A.; Collins, Molly F. – Reading Teacher, 2012
This article focuses on young children's misinterpretations of storybook illustrations. Examples of misinterpretations drawn from preschool classrooms are presented and analyzed to explain four kinds of confusion that are typically involved. Based on these analyses, the authors argue that young children are capable of the reasoning required to…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Grade 1, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
Collins, Molly F. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2010
This study investigates the effects of rich explanation, baseline vocabulary, and home reading practices on English language learning (ELL) preschoolers' sophisticated vocabulary learning from storybook reading. Eighty typically developing preschoolers were pretested in L1 (Portuguese) and L2 (English) receptive vocabulary and were assigned to…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Reading Habits, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
