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Direct linkBenson, Katie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which tri-weekly evidence-based vocabulary lessons implemented throughout the regular school day would increase kindergarten students' expressive and receptive vocabulary development, thus decreasing the vocabulary gap exhibited between low-income children and their more advantaged peers…
Descriptors: Poverty, Direct Instruction, Teaching Methods, Experimental Groups
Switalski, Sarah O'Neill – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined the additive benefit of parent dialogic reading techniques in older, high-risk preschool children using multiple baseline design across participants, a single subject research design, as was as well as pre-test and post-test measures. Five preschoolers age-eligible to begin kindergarten the following school year participated.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Parents, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies
Googe, Heather Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of my study was to evaluate the relationship between classroom process quality and child language and academic outcomes from the beginning of the pre-kindergarten year to the beginning of the kindergarten year for one cohort of children participating in a state-funded pre-kindergarten program in South Carolina. Data for my study were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Pilot Projects, Kindergarten
Muncy, Marla R. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
To focus on the need to improve literacy in rural Appalachia, this study investigates the use of Text Talk during read-aloud to increase the receptive vocabulary of participants. The investigator read six picturebooks to two groups of kindergarteners. Group A had 21 participants and Group B had 20 participants. Each group received instruction on…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Reading Instruction, Reading Aloud to Others, Vocabulary Development
VanTol, Kathleen M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to design and establish the technical adequacy of curriculum-based measures (CBMs) of vocabulary acquisition for use with preschool children. This study sought to establish the technical adequacy of two tools that can be used for measuring benchmarks of vocabulary acquisition for both native English speakers and for…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Curriculum Based Assessment
Thomas, Carnot James – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study explored five years of results from participants in the Project DATA Comprehensive Treatment Model (CTM) which provided intensive early intervention services to young students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Data from up to 69 preschool students were utilized in determining pre-/post-program performance on a variety of outcome…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Autism, Program Effectiveness, Receptive Language
