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Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success
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This book helps parents, teachers, and students understand more fully the importance of encouraging children to read and how to support children's reading success.Abstract:
1 Front Matter 2 Introduction 3 Promoting Children's Reading Success 4 Growing Up to Read 5 Becoming Real Readers 6 Preventing Reading Difficulties 7 Glossary 8 For More Information 9 Internet Resources 10 Acknowledgements & Credits 11 Indexread more
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Reading and Writing Relations and Their Development
Jill Fitzgerald,Timothy Shanahan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a brief retrospective is provided on the study of reading and writing relations, and a description of a preliminary developmental outlook on the relation of read and writing is offered.
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The formative role of home literacy experiences across the first three years of life in children from low-income families
Eileen T. Rodriguez,Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda,Mark Spellmann,Barbara A. Pan,Helen Raikes,Julieta Lugo-Gil,Gayle J. Luze +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a longitudinal investigation focused on the language and literacy environments of 1046 children from low-income families across children's first three years of life were examined in relation to the frequency of children's participation in literacy activities, the quality of mothers' engagements with their children, and the provision of age-appropriate learning materials.
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The early childhood classroom observation measure
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No Child Left Behind Comes to Preschool
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Mathematics, vocabulary, and reading development in Chinese American and European American children over the primary school years
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