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Streelasky, Jodi – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2008
Makin and Jones Diaz (2002) suggest that young children's early literacy is most strongly supported when early childhood educators, children's families, and the wider community develop shared understandings about literacy--what counts, what is valued and validated, and whose voices are heard and whose voices are silent. Researchers such as Haas…
Descriptors: Written Language, Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries
Evans, Verlyn M. – Online Submission, 2006
The purpose of this applied dissertation was to examine the effects of a preschool emergent literacy program on young African American children from a low socioeconomic background. The preschool is located in an urban setting in North Carolina. All students participating in this study were identified as at-risk for school failure. The behavior and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Orthographic Symbols, Socioeconomic Influences, Phonemes