This study uses Lareau’s term “concerted cultivation” to describe a composite measure of parenting that includes:• Child participation in adult-orchestrated leisure activities (e.g., clubs, sports, art classes, music)•&#...
Researchers analyzed classroom instruction data, to determine the extent to which classroom literacy instruction was consistent with the instructional approach that San Diego hypothesized as effective.
Children’s entry-level skills, ethnicity and parents’ education level were predictors of children’s reading scores at the end of kindergarten. To a lesser extent, type and amount of reading instruction predicted children’s reading scores...
A substantial proportion of students who succeed in learning to read in the primary grades go on to encounter difficulties after third grade. Students for whom English is not their first language and those from low-income backgrounds dis...
In terms of the amount of information per unit of test administration time or teachers' time, computerized adaptive tests in general, and STAR Early Literacy in particular (a computerized adaptive test of early literacy skills), are attr...
Features of the Latino families' home language use and literacy explained their children's vocabulary outcomes.
This study focuses on a specific category of family literacy programs, those that target children's literacy development directly by providing stimulating parent-child activities to be carried out at home and by training parents to trans...
1. Morphological awareness affects reading comprehension directly.
-Greater attendance was associated with larger language gains for children enrolled in higher quality classrooms.
-The positive relations found between attendance and language gains were strongest for higher quality classrooms as c...
