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Home environments and young Latino children's school readiness
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In this article, the authors examined the relations among characteristics of children's home environments and two school readiness skills: their oral language and social functioning, and found that the relation between parents' literacy involvement and children's PPVT-R/TVIP scores and social function was mediated by children's interest in literacy.About:
This article is published in Early Childhood Research Quarterly.The article was published on 2006-04-01. It has received 307 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Poison control.read more
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To read or not to read: A meta-analysis of print exposure from infancy to early adulthood.
Suzanne E. Mol,Adriana G. Bus +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that shared book reading to preconventional readers may be part of a continuum of out-of-school reading experiences that facilitate children's language, reading, and spelling achievement throughout their development.
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Family Reading Behavior and Early Literacy Skills in Preschool Children From Low-Income Backgrounds
TL;DR: The authors investigated the family reading behavior of 233 preschool children from low-income backgrounds who were attending Head Start and found that parent-child reading interaction and child reading interest were significantly related to children's early literacy skills.
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The language and literacy development of young dual language learners: A critical review
Carol Scheffner Hammer,Erika Hoff,Yuuko Uchikoshi,Cristina Gillanders,Dina C. Castro,Lia E. Sandilos +5 more
TL;DR: A critical analysis of the extant literature showed that DLLs have two separate language systems early in life, and differences in some areas of language development, such as vocabulary, appear to exist among D LLs depending on when they were first exposed to their second language.
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ELL preschoolers’ English vocabulary acquisition from storybook reading.
TL;DR: The authors investigated the effects of rich explanation, baseline vocabulary, and home reading practices on English language learning (ELL) preschoolers' sophisticated vocabulary learning from storybook reading, and found that rich explanations, initial L2 vocabulary and frequency of home reading make significant contributions to sophisticated word learning.
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The early developmental competencies and school readiness of low-income, immigrant children: Influences of generation, race/ethnicity, and national origins ☆
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the school readiness of 2194 low-income children receiving subsidies to attend child care with emphasis on how nativity status (generation, race/ethnicity, and national origins might be related to children's preparedness for kindergarten.
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Beginning to read : thinking and learning about print
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