The development of the concept of word is discussed in terms of specific advantages that might be available to bilingual children when compared with their monolingual peers. Three studies are reviewed in which bilingual children show more advanced understanding of some aspects of the concept of word than do monolingual children (Author/LMO)

Explains the relationship between understanding a temporal or causal event and the ability to articulate and comprehend sentences about the event. The subjects of the research were 60 children from an Italian elementary school, 20 each from the first, third, and fifth grades. (CFM)

The purpose of this doctoral dissertation was to determine whether a teacher involved parent education program which stressed parent child interaction, would significantly improve the verbal achievement of rural, disadvantaged, low income, black first grade students. A total of 43 pupils were selected from two predominantly black schools in Macon…