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The Reading Identities of Prekindergarten Dual Language Learners
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Wagner, Christopher J. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
How children understand reading and who they are as readers comprises children's reading identities. Reading identities can have very real effects on the reading outcomes of children, and may support the development of foundational reading skills and the process of learning to read (McCarthey & Moje, 2002). Despite the potential importance of…
Descriptors: Reading, Identification (Psychology), Early Reading, Bilingual Students
Effects of Rhyming Instruction on Learning the Alphabetic Principle, Phonemic Awareness, and Rhyming Complexity Skills with At-Risk Prekindergarten Students
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Crystal Randolph – ProQuest LLC, 2012
At-risk prekindergarten students (i.e., low SES, speech-language impaired) typically lag behind their peers in phonological awareness and other emergent literacy skills such as letter knowledge and vocabulary (Duursma et al., 2008; Lundberg, 2009). However, there is a limited amount of research that has studied the efficacy of phonological…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Early Reading, At Risk Students, Literacy
Word Reading Strategy Development of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Preschoolers
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Burke, Victoria – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Siegler's (1996) overlapping waves model of strategy development applied to reading posits that children use multiple strategies to read words from the earliest stage of reading development, that these strategies coexist over a long period of time, and that experience results in gradual change in the strategies children use and the…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Preschool Children, Early Reading
Scientifically Based Reading Research Strategies in the Preschool Classroom: An Investigation into Quality Early Childhood Reading Practices and Literacy Acquisition in One Northern Michigan Early Reading First Program
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McCool, Yvonne Donohoe – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A growing body of research has emerged to support the concept of providing early childhood education as a quality investment for our children, unlocking early potential and creating lasting impacts related to school success and beyond. Several landmark studies indicated that a quality education targeted at our youngest learners has the ability to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education, Reading Programs, Early Reading
Parent Interventionists in Phonodialogic Emergent Reading with Preschool Children
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Gear, Sabra B. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine an activity-based intervention, dialogic reading with embedded explicit phonological awareness strategies, applied as a preventive approach by parents in their home settings located within a culturally and ethnically diverse urban region. This study investigated the effects of training parents to employ a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Reading Skills, Intervention, Early Reading
From "At Risk" to "At Promise": An Evaluation of an Early Reading First Project
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Zoll, Susan Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study demonstrates the impact of an Early Reading First intervention on preschool children's language and literacy development using an ex post facto, causal-comparative research design. The project's professional development model was evaluated to produce a process and outcome evaluation to answer two overarching research questions: (1) What…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Early Intervention, Preschool Children, Language Acquisition