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Peer reviewedBritto, Pia Rebello; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2001
Examined associations between individual dimensions of the home literacy environment and specific emergent literacy skills among low-income preschoolers. Found that three dimensions of family literacy environments--language and verbal interactions, learning climate, and social and emotional climate--differentially foster preschool children's…
Descriptors: Blacks, Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Emergent Literacy
