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Enhancing Language and Print-Concept Skills by Using Interactive Storybook Reading in Kindergarten
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Nevo, Einat; Vaknin-Nusbaum, Vered – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2018
The effectiveness of a short interactive storybook-reading intervention programme delivered by a kindergarten teacher to develop language and print-concept skills was examined in 30 Hebrew-speaking kindergarten children exhibiting different levels of emergent literacy skills. Post-intervention, the intervention group showed a clear advantage over…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Books, Kindergarten, Semitic Languages
Improving Family Literacy Practices
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Harvey, Ann – SAGE Open, 2016
A 10-question Likert-type scale survey was presented to parents of children enrolled in the Imagination Library's (IL) program. IL sends age-appropriate books once a month to children from birth to age 5 so that their parent can read to them. After registering for the program and receiving books, 93 parents answered the survey questions…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Rural Areas, Parents, Preschool Children
Read Across America High School Style!
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Hoppe, Kelly M. – Library Media Connection, 2009
The one year the author was an elementary librarian, she organized a Read Across America (RAA) celebration involving three different elementary campuses. This included bringing in community members to read, free books for students, and the piece de resistance--campus principals dressing up in the Cat in the Hat suit and reading to the entire…
Descriptors: High Schools, Personal Narratives, Reading Motivation, School Libraries
Prescriptions to Read: Early Literacy Promotion outside the Classroom
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Billings, Elsa S. – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2009
This descriptive study examined the impact that an early literacy promotion program, Reach Out and Read (ROR), had on the literacy beliefs, frequency, and quality of literacy activities among low-income, multiracial families, particularly the Latino community. The study also explored parents' perceptions of ROR and its impact on them, their…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Emergent Literacy, Clinics, Low Income Groups
Facilitating Emergent Literacy Skills: A Literature-Based, Multiple Intelligence Approach
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Brand, Susan Trostle – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2006
Educators have continually sought to achieve a balance between a phonics-based, code-emphasis program and a more holistic, meaning-based approach to emergent literacy instruction. This article describes an integrated phonics and literature-based approach to developing children's emergent literacy skills. These skills included alphabet knowledge,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Phonemes, Language Usage, Play
Introducing Newbery Winners and Honor Books to Hispanic Fourth and Fifth Graders through a Recreational Reading Program.
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Gunter, Dorothy – 1994
A practicum was designed to enhance students' knowledge of well known children's literature that is represented by the Newbery and Newbery Honor Award winning books. One fourth-grade and one fifth-grade class comprised of students reading at or near grade level at a metropolitan school with a nearly 97% Hispanic student population worked within a…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Grade 4, Grade 5, Hispanic American Students