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Reikerås, Elin; Dahle, Anne Elisabeth – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
This retrospective study, undertaken in Norway, examines how reading skills level in 851 fifth graders are related to how the children used their language skills in play and everyday activities as toddlers. Data were collected with the Norwegian National Reading Test and through structured observations by staff in Early Childhood Education…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Grade 5, Toddlers, Language Skills
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Henrik Daae Zachrisson; Eric Dearing; Nicolai Topstad Borgen; Astrid Marie Jorde Sandsør; Lynn A. Karoly – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
We estimated the effects of Norway's universal ECEC program - expanding access to 1- and 2-year-olds starting in the early 2000s - on standardized math and achievement tests in 5th grade (age 10) using a population-based survey sample (Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study, MoBa, n = 102,352), linked with national administrative records…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Toddlers, Grade 5
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Vernon-Feagans, Lynne; Carr, Robert C.; Bratsch-Hines, Mary; Willoughby, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Both early childhood maternal language input and the quality of classroom instruction in elementary school have been shown to be important environmental supports in predicting children's literacy skill development. However, no studies have simultaneously examined these two environmental supports in relation to children's early language skills and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Linguistic Input, Parent Child Relationship, Reading Comprehension
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Justice, Laura; Mashburn, Andrew; Petscher, Yaacov – Journal of Research in Reading, 2013
This study tested the theory that future poor comprehenders would show modest but pervasive deficits in both language comprehension and production during early childhood as compared with future poor decoders and typical readers. Using an existing database (NICHD ECCRN), fifth-grade students were identified as having poor comprehension skills…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading), Language Processing, Expressive Language
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Lee, Joanne – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011
This paper investigated the predictive ability of expressive vocabulary size and lexical composition at age 2 on later language and literacy skills from ages 3 through 11. Multivariate analysis of covariance was performed to compare 16 language and literacy outcomes between children with large expressive vocabulary size at 24 months (N = 1,073)…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Multivariate Analysis, Grade 5, Literacy
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Milner, Joseph O.; Milner, Margie M. – Reading Psychology, 2008
Jedediah Purdy's (2000) "For common things" laments the ironic mode of thought that characterizes our culture's mindset. He calls for a return to devotion, homage, and allegiance rather than what he sees as a jaundiced detachment that has overcome us. Purdy may be on to something, but Alexandra Day (1985) does not seem to adopt his call to a…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Emergent Literacy, Beginning Reading, Literature Reviews