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Brown, P. Margaret; Byrnes, Linda J.; Watson, Linda M.; Raban, Bridie – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2013
This study investigated the relationships between children's home literacy environments and their early hypotheses about printed words in the year prior to entering school. There were 147 children (70 girls and 77 boys: mean age 57 months, range = 47-66 months, standard deviation = 4.5 months) in the study. Results showed that the children had…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Emergent Literacy, Printed Materials, Correlation
Hill, Susan – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2009
The purpose of this study was to explore the connections between young children's oral language vocabulary and children's reading of written language in beginning reading books. Oral language has been viewed as the foundation for emergent reading development as it provides the semantic base, syntactic base and phonological base for successfully…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Beginning Reading, Semantics, Written Language