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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Children's literacy"”.
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Children's literacy perceptions as they authored with hypermedia.
… project was based on one novel and the children authored in teams of two to create a stack-like presentation of their perceptions of the novel. The second project utilized an Internet web authoring to tool. The children applied their knowledge from learning the link authoring process to …
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Technology-assisted coaching : a system for Children's literacy learning
Children learn best when knowledgeable adults support their learning process. Yet many learning technologies have not yet incorporated this vital social dimension. In response, we develop a technology-assisted coaching system, where a new adult collaborator--a coach--uses digital tools to support …
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The Relationship Between Phonemic Awareness and Preschool Children's Literacy Activities
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Do Parents' Literacy Beliefs and Home Literacy Experiences Relate to Children's Literacy Skills?
… study examined the relationship among parents' literacy beliefs, home literacy experiences, and children's literacy skills. Forty-three children, who attended a university preschool, and their parents participated in the study. Parents' literacy beliefs and the home literacy experience, namely …
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A longitudinal study of literacy experiences, the role of parents, and children's literacy development.
This study investigated the literacy experiences and attainment of 42 children aged 3 to 7, who had attended preschool education in a city in the North of England. Data were collected through parent interviews before nursery entry; literacy assessment at school entry, and at age seven; and by …
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Sharing the Responsibility for Children's Literacy Development in First Grade: Child - Parent - Teacher Partnerships
… was to describe what happens when parents and children are invited to participate in a child-parent-teacher partnership which mutually supports the child's literacy development during transition into first grade. Questions which helped focus the study were: How do child-parent-teacher …
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Case Studies of Turkish Children's Literacy and Oral Language Development in English as a Second Language
… them. The students' English oral language and literacy abilities showed a negative relationship, where oral proficiency did not lead to literacy acquisition in the second language. Alp lacked phonological awareness, over-relied on word memorization strategies and remained a poor reader and …
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Year one children's literacy behaviours and perceptions of literacy learning in the classroom and reading recovery contexts
… investigates the ways in which four Year One children engage in the literacy events of their regular and Reading Recovery classrooms. It explores how these children perceived their beginning reading instruction and possible relationships between the children's perceptions and the ways in which …
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Implementation and Evaluation of a Chinese Language Family Literacy Program: Impact on Young Children's Literacy Development in Chinese and English
Previous research on family literacy in North America has generally been conducted in English, even if the program targets English for speakers of other languages. However, the differences in English proficiency among parent participants may vary enormously in ways that are not easily predictable. …
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Parental reading beliefs, home literacy practices, and children's development: Examination of a parental reading beliefs model in China
… their beliefs are significant predictors of home literacy practices and children's literacy development. Based on these findings, a model of parental reading beliefs was developed and tested. This study examined whether components within this model based on prior research findings in the United …
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Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland
This thesis is an ethnographic study of the early literacy development of four children from low-income families in and around Manzini, Swaziland. It investigated the orientations to literacy, language, and communication that children brought to school from home, vice versa, and the sorts of …
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Observations of Emergent Literary Behaviors in a Literacy-Enriched Play Environment: Does Teacher Guidance Make a Difference?
… whether there are differences in emergent literacy behaviors between a teacher guided literacy-enriched play environment and a literacy-enriched play environment without teacher guidance. This study occurred over a five week period. During the first week, base-line data were collected using …
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Teaching Strategies That Support Emergent Literacy: Effects of a Collaborative Training Model
… of teaching strategies that are linked to young children's emergent literacy development. The impact of the intervention on teachers' beliefs, the overall classroom literacy environment, and children's literacy development also was investigated. Participants included 5 early childhood teachers …
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Reaching for Literacy Success as a Mexican Immigrant: A Close Up of Kindergarten Children and Their Families
… of parental active support and corresponding literacy practices at home, as promoters of positive effects of bilingualism and consequently literacy learning. In addition, the school's use of Spanish facilitated the dynamic of the families' belief in active support of their children's literacy …
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Literate Behaviors in African American Head Start Families: A Multiple Literacies Perspective
Low literacy and illiteracy have been documented among low-income African American children. The problems associated with low literacy and illiteracy often extend into adulthood, with potentially devastating consequences. Low-income African American caregivers are frequently portrayed as devoid of …
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Literacy development in children with cerebral palsy
This thesis concerns the literacy difficulties of fifteen children with cerebral palsy (CP). The children were an opportunistic sample from two schools, and were initially selected on the basis that they had typical abilities in other school subjects. A review of the literature pertaining to the …
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The development of an enabling self-administered questionnaire for enhancing reading teachers' professional pedagogical insights
… been many national and provincial studies on children's literacy levels in recent years in South Africa. However, none has determined the teachers' own understandings of the core indicators of an effective reading teacher. During a preliminary feasibility study, the researcher was surprised to …
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