Signs of Emergent Literacy among Inner-City Kindergartners in a Storybook Reading Program.

Otto, Beverly White

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ERIC Number: EJ465246

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1993

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Signs of Emergent Literacy among Inner-City Kindergartners in a Storybook Reading Program.

Otto, Beverly White

Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, v9 n2 p151-62 Apr-Jun 1993

Examines effectiveness of project designed to increase inner-city children's opportunities to interact with storybooks in their classrooms and at home. Finds that 75% of children interacted with storybooks at a higher level of emergent reading at the end of the project, and 10 of the 28 children attempted to track print at postassessment, whereas no children did in preassessment. (RS)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Emergent Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Research, Story Reading, Urban Education

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Note: Mini-Theme: Developing Literacy through Children's Literature.