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Snow, Catherine E.; Martin, Twakia; Berman, Ilene – Harvard Educational Review, 2008
In this article, Catherine Snow, Twakia Martin, and Ilene Berman describe professional development institutes offered in 2001 and 2002 by the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices to familiarize state-level policymakers with research on adolescent literacy and to guide states'…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Skills, Statewide Planning, Professional Development
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Snow, Catherine E. – New Directions for Child Development, 1993
Reviews three studies that focused on ways in which social interactions within the family support literacy acquisition. Suggests that parents' most important contributions to their children's literacy development may come through language interactions, such as storytelling and interactions that foster vocabulary development, rather than through…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Family Influence