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Peer reviewedJohnston, Callum B. – Early Child Development and Care, 1997
Used a pretest-posttest control group design to study the effects of interactive storybook software on the verbal development of 60 kindergarteners from low income families. Found that, for the 25 children who interacted with the software a minimum of 300 minutes over 7 weeks, there was a significant increase in verbal ability. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Computer Uses in Education, Courseware
Download full textMoe, Alden J. – 1974
Vocabulary diversity is a measure either of the language spoken within a fixed time period or of the total utterances, sentences, or words. To measure children's language development as revealed by the diversity of their spoken expression, a comparison was made of the vocabulary of 15 first-grade children of average ability, of first-grade primers…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Books, Childrens Literature, Grade 1
