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Jenkins, Jade Marcus; Farkas, George; Duncan, Greg J.; Burchinal, Margaret; Vandell, Deborah Lowe – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016
As policymakers contemplate expanding preschool opportunities for low-income children, one possibility is to fund 2, rather than 1 year of Head Start for children at ages 3 and 4. Another option is to offer 1 year of Head Start followed by 1 year of pre-K. We ask which of these options is more effective. We use data from the Oklahoma pre-K study…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Data Analysis
Jenkins, Jade Marcus; Farkas, George; Duncan, Greg J.; Burchinal, Margaret; Vandell, Deborah Lowe – Grantee Submission, 2016
As policy-makers contemplate expanding preschool opportunities for low-income children, one possibility is to fund two, rather than one year of Head Start for children at ages 3 and 4. Another option is to offer one year of Head Start followed by one year of pre-k. We ask which of these options is more effective. We use data from the Oklahoma…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Kindergarten, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education
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Nurss, Joanne R. – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1988
Compares and describes written language environments of kindergarten children in Scandinavia, Great Britain, and the United States. Finds a lack of written language in Scandinavian kindergartens, writing in the context of interactive play in Great Britain, and either academic writing instruction or developmentally appropriate print-rich…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Primary Education
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Hipple, Marjorie L. – Language Arts, 1985
Discusses efforts at teaching children in kindergarten how to write, indicating that emergent readers can indeed write with scribbles, random letters, numerals, and sometimes words. Discusses their dictation, journal content, writing stages, and developmental trends. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Stages, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten
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Martinez, Miriam; Teale, William H. – Reading Teacher, 1987
Describes a program used in three Texas schools in which kindergarten children spend a part of each day writing. (FL)
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Kindergarten, Learning Strategies, Program Content
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Hall, Susan E. M. – Language Arts, 1985
Describes how kindergarten children use invented spelling to rewrite Mother Goose nursery rhymes, indicating the phoneme grapheme system the children perceived from spoken language. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Kindergarten, Nursery Rhymes, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Freeman, Evelyn B.; Sanders, Tobie R. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1989
Explored young children's concepts of the functions of writing in community contexts. Twenty kindergarten children responded to three videotaped vignettes depicting people writing in community settings. The children were able to identify a range of writing functions. They also valued writing and described the negative consequences likely to occur…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Knowledge Level
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Stachoviak, Sue – Teaching and Change, 1996
A kindergarten teacher tested her theory that her students could progress beyond learning a letter a week by creating a project to introduce students to letter names and sounds. By using interactive writing and key words, she encouraged students to write. In the process, they learned alphabet letters and sounds. (Author/SM)
Descriptors: Action Research, Group Activities, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. – 1974
This handbook is designed to help local school districts in Oregon plan and administer kindergarten programs. Outlined are the administrative steps for starting a public kindergarten and suggestions for assessing classroom space and facility needs, developing a budget, employing kindergarten staff, planning an instructional program, purchasing…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Administration, Educational Planning, Kindergarten
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Treiman, Rebecca – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Examines kindergarten and first-grade children's classifications and spellings and differences in their classifications of sounds from those of adults. In addition to these spelling, phoneme recognition, and phoneme deletion tasks, each child took the reading and spelling subtests of the Wide Range Achievement Test. (AS)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classification, Kindergarten, Listening Comprehension
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Cambourne, Brian – English in Australia, 1983
Relates some of the observations made of a kindergarten classroom over a two-year period in which teachers simulated as many conditions as possible with respect to a natural "learning-how-to-write" situation. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Kindergarten
James, Amy – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2006
This Knowledge Essentials book shows parents how to enrich their child's first classroom experience and take an active role in preschool education. This book includes advice and offers information about: (1) What a child is learning at school and the educational standards to expect in preschool-level reading and writing readiness, math, science,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Verbal Communication, Preschool Education, Kindergarten
Ribowsky, Helene – 1985
A year-long, quasi-experimental study investigated the comparative effects of a whole language approach and a code emphasis approach upon the emergent literacy of 53 girls in two kindergarten classes in an all girls' parochial school in the Northeast. Subjects in the experimental class received instruction in Holdaway's Shared Book Experience…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten, Language Experience Approach
Beers, Elizabeth A. – 2000
This report describes an early intervention program to elicit emergent literacy skills in Potentially English Proficient kindergarten students. The school is located in a suburb of a large city near a naval base. The problem, lack of literacy readiness skills, was documented with a battery of tests given prior to entrance in kindergarten and the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Environment, Emergent Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness
Juliebo, Moira Fraser – 1986
Extracted from a doctoral thesis on young children's emergent literacy, this paper describes the literacy development of one five-year-old subject. The paper first describes the subject's home environment, her relationships with family members, and her early reading experience and literacy development. Transcripts illustrating her home reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages
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