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Guo, Ying; Kaderavek, Joan N.; Piasta, Shayne B.; Justice, Laura M.; McGinty, Anita – Early Education and Development, 2011
Research Findings: This study investigated relations among preschool teachers' (n = 75) sense of community, classroom language and literacy instructional quality, and children's (n = 398) gains in vocabulary and print concept knowledge during an academic year. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) results indicated that teachers' language and…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Literacy
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Pentimonti, Jill M.; Justice, Laura M. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2010
Relatively little is known regarding preschool teachers' use of specific scaffolds, including those high support scaffolds (e.g., co-participating, eliciting, reducing choices) that may be important for children who are struggling to acquire language and literacy concepts. The goal of this study was to characterize preschool teachers' use of six…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Preschool Teachers, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Emergent Literacy