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Peller, Sarah – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The present study examined the relationship between children's early literacy-related abilities and their reading achievement in late elementary school in the context of a Puerto Rican community in Massachusetts. The researcher examined four years of student achievement test data from the public elementary schools of Holyoke, Massachusetts. The…
Descriptors: Puerto Ricans, Reading Tests, Grade 1, Grade 4
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Hemphill, Lowry; Tivnan, Terrence – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2008
Although research documents a key contribution of print skills to early literacy, vocabulary and other language skills also provide an important foundation. Focusing on a sample of several hundred low-income children in 16 urban schools that were implementing literacy interventions, 1st-grade predictors of literacy development were traced over…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Reading Comprehension, Emergent Literacy, Grade 1