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Robinson, Elizabeth J.; Einav, Shiri; Fox, Amy – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Literacy gives children an opportunity to benefit from others' knowledge and experience that far exceeds what they can achieve when reliant on learning orally via personal encounters. Little is known about young children's understanding and use of print as a source of knowledge. Three experiments investigated children's use and understanding of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Early Reading, Epistemology
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Dale, Philip S.; Harlaar, Nicole; Plomin, Robert – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
Many research questions require the assessment of reading in large samples of children. We compared two nonconventional procedures for early reading assessment: test administration by telephone, and teacher assessment. Five thousand five hundred and forty four children participating in a longitudinal twin study were assessed by telephone using the…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Reading Skills, Young Children
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Daniels, Marilyn – Reading Research and Instruction, 2004
The purpose of this investigation was to assess the effect of American Sign Language (ASL) instruction on typical hearing kindergarten children's literacy in four specific areas: receptive English vocabulary, expressive English vocabulary, ASL ability, and English emergent reading level. The research was specifically modeled after a 1997 United…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary, Phonology, Kindergarten