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Roxanne Etta – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine how children's book format influences parent-child book reading engagement. The extant literature suggests that there are at least two potential mechanisms that might moderate children's engagement with and learning from books: (1) the format and features of the book itself and (2) how parents and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship, Reading Aloud to Others, Behavior
Porter, Tracy D. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study examined the effects of expository text read-alouds on first grade English Language Learners' listening comprehension and book choice selection. All students in the study received ELL pull out services from a certified EL teacher. Five schools participated in the study. One school, the experimental group, received expository text…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Elementary School Students, Reading Material Selection, Listening Comprehension
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Manz, Patricia H.; Eisenberg, Rachel; Gernhart, Amanda; Faison, Jacqueline; Laracy, Seth; Ridgard, Tamique; Pinho, Trevor – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The purpose of this study was to develop a book sharing intervention to support the language development of infants and toddlers from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Low-income parents were engaged in a collaborative inquiry to develop "Little Talks." Parents were assigned to three small groups that independently…
Descriptors: Intervention, Language Acquisition, Infants, Toddlers
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Colmar, Susan Hilary – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2014
Children with delayed language skills, who were from a socio-economic area defined as disadvantaged, made significant improvements in language skills after their parents were trained in easily learned strategies, enabling them to make simple changes in the way they interacted with their children. The 36 children, mean age five years, were…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Disadvantaged, Intervention, Experimental Groups
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Kraemer, Linda; McCabe, Patrick; Sinatra, Richard – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2012
The researchers investigated the effects of listening to expository text on the listening comprehension and book choice of 77 first-grade students. Two intact classes of experimental children heard expository read-alouds over four weeks while two intact classes of 40 controls received no intervention and followed their teacher's normal read-aloud…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Reading Aloud to Others, Expository Writing
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Kozminsky, Ely; Asher-Sadon, Revital – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2013
Traditionally, children's books are in a printed format and shared book reading is done with an adult. In recent years, interactive E-books have become a common medium for children's books and shared book reading is diminishing. This study compared the contribution of book format to the development of literacy in kindergarten children. We…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Printed Materials, Books, Childrens Literature