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Nirmla Griarte Flores; Elsie N. Solis; Clara Amador-Lankster; Isabel Badilla Zamora; Ana María Hernández Segura; Sylvia Segura Esquivel; Gabriela Solís Sánchez; Margarita Urdaneta Benavides – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
This transnational comparative study between Costa Rica and the United States provides an in-depth understanding of the similarities and differences of the early literacy practices of educators in the Pre-Kindergarten to Kindergarten classroom settings. Drawing upon Costa Rica's curricular approach to Early Childhood Education, based upon the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education
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Olson, Richard K.; Keenan, Janice M.; Byrne, Brian; Samuelsson, Stefan; Coventry, William L.; Corley, Robin; Wadsworth, Sally J.; Willcutt, Erik G.; DeFries, John C.; Pennington, Bruce F.; Hulslander, Jacqueline – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2011
Genetic and environmental relations between vocabulary and reading skills were explored longitudinally from preschool through Grades 2 and 4. At preschool there were strong shared-environment and weak genetic influences on both vocabulary and print knowledge but substantial differences in their source. Separation of etiology for vocabulary and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Genetics, Word Recognition, Etiology
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Skouteris, Helen; Kelly, Leanne; Dorning, Dominica E.; Calgaro, Kristina; Corns, Ben; Feehan, Emily L.; Hamilton, Fiona; Mahoney, Jessica; Macdonald, Zoe J.; Tamburrini, Sarah; Wood, Christopher – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2007
The aim of this study was to explore the effects of repeat viewing on comprehension of explicitly and implicitly presented information in an animated movie. Seventy-three pre-school children watched an animated film and were tested for comprehension after either their single or fifth viewing. Only children's comprehension of explicitly …
Descriptors: Comprehension, Video Technology, Visual Stimuli, Preschool Children