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Willard, Jessica A.; Kohl, Katharina; Bihler, Lilly-Marlen; Agache, Alexandru; Leyendecker, Birgit – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: Are family literacy activities linked to gains in preschool-aged dual language learners' (DLLs') societal language vocabulary? To understand connections between literacy activities and vocabulary, we separately considered literacy activities in the respective heritage language and in the societal language, German, and accounted…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Family Environment, Native Language, Turkish
Olszewski, Arnold; Cullen-Conway, Margaret – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
Dialogic reading, in which parents engage children in discussion of books, is associated with long-term literacy success. Social media is an emerging platform for promoting behavioral change, but it has yet to be tested as a platform for engaging parents in use of dialogic reading strategies with their young children. This exploratory study was…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Social Media, Preschool Children
Mendive, Susana; Mascareño Lara, Mayra; Aldoney, Daniela; Pérez, J. Carola; Pezoa, José P. – Child Development, 2020
This study used Latent Class Analysis to identify groups of children exposed to similar Home Language and Literacy Environments (HLLE) and explored whether belonging to a given HLLE group was related to children's language and early literacy growth from prekindergarten to kindergarten. Participants were 1,425 Chilean mothers and their children…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Language Usage, Language Acquisition, Emergent Literacy
D'warte, Jacqueline – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2020
Although unevenly distributed, many Australian classrooms are increasingly diverse and include young people from a wide variety of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, young people who speak many different languages and dialects of English. These diverse classrooms offer rich and exciting teaching and learning opportunities and require innovative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Bilingual Students, Preschool Children
Schapira, Rotem; Aram, Dorit – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Finding: The study aimed to explore the relations between the natural process of parents' and children's general and socio-emotional discourse during and following shared book reading (SBR) interactions at home and preschoolers' socio-emotional competence (causes of emotion; empathy; prosocial attitude; and social coherence). Results…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Family Environment, Preschool Children, Social Development
Saracho, Olivia N. – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
A Critical Discourse Analysis was used to examine the parents' social practice during shared storybook reading with young children (birth to eight-years-old). The methodology involved two phases: (1) educational databases were searched and (2) a template was developed and used to code the programmes' components and studies' research design.…
Descriptors: Story Reading, Childrens Literature, Young Children, Parents
Smith, Nichole L. – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2020
The researcher in this study examined parents' perceptions of the engagement activities in their homes. Parents of elementary school students in one southeastern United States school district were asked to participate in this study. Findings related to literacy, academic, and family engagement. Parents' preparedness to assist their children with…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Parent Attitudes, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
Mona Nasir-Tucktuck; Joshua N. Baker; Cori More; K. Ryan Wennerlind; Stephanie M. Devine – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2020
This study used a single-subject alternating treatment design across students to compare mass discrete trials and distributed mass trials distributed in a shared story reading on the acquisition of functional skills for students with Autism. The results of this study examined a functional relationship between the interventions on the acquisition…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Autism, Story Reading
Altinkaynak, Senay Özen – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2019
The purpose of the current study is to investigate the effect of interactive book reading activities on children's print and phonemic awareness skills. In the current study, the semi-experimental pretest-posttest control group design was used. The sampling of the study consists of 34 children attending independent kindergartens in the city of…
Descriptors: Phonemic Awareness, Pretests Posttests, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Brunner, Jeanne L. – Science & Education, 2019
This study investigates the use of specific educative features for supporting the teaching of nature of science (NOS) during read-alouds of elementary science trade books. Educative features are components of educative curriculum materials that aim to increase teachers' content knowledge and support effective instructional practices. Understanding…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Reading Aloud to Others, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students
Stortz, Rebecca; Martinez, Miriam; Harmon, Janis; Cataldo, Raquel; Juarez, Lucinda Marie – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2019
A common instructional practice in early childhood classrooms is the picturebook read aloud. The purpose of this investigation was to help preservice teachers learn to plan picturebook read alouds with the goal of helping children interpret the visual affordances of picturebooks, including visual elements (e.g., cclor, line) and peritextual…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Undergraduate Students, Lesson Plans
Nevo, Einat; Vaknin-Nusbaum, Vered; Gambrell, Linda – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2019
The current research examined age differences and developmental aspects associated with children's early motivation to read at the beginning and the end of the school year for 119 Hebrew speakers in kindergarten and 1st grade. Analyses showed that overall motivation to read was higher among 1st-graders than among kindergartners. In addition,…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Kindergarten, Young Children, Grade 1
Federico, Batini; Bartolucci, Marco; De Carlo, Ermelinda – Athens Journal of Education, 2019
Early school leaving is a real social emergency across Europe. Literature and field experience show that the factors leading to the decision to drop out of school are different: family problems, economic distress, territorial discomfort. In addition, there are individual characteristics such as: psychological dimensions, ease/difficulty of…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Student School Relationship, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
Lixia Cheng; Sha Yang; Erin D. Besser; Belen Garcia De Hurtado – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
The purpose of this single-case study was to investigate the challenges that a teacher might encounter when incorporating vocabulary instruction and dialogic reading into the use of electronic storybooks (shortened as "e-storybooks" henceforth) to support oral narrative development of preschool English language learners. In our 4-week…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, English Learners, Chinese Americans, Electronic Books
Kucirkova, Natalia; Dale, Philip S.; Sylva, Kathy – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
Sixty-five parent--infant dyads were observed reading an unfamiliar book at home. Parents' use of language-stimulating and emotionally rich reading styles was measured via a specially developed Book Sharing Scale for Infants. Aspects of child temperament were assessed by the Infant Characteristics Questionnaire [Bates, J. E., Freeland, C. A. B.,…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Infants, Parents, Predictor Variables