Article describes a program designed to involve pupils in activities to foster language development. (Author/RK)

Recognizing that preschool experience of hearing stories read aloud contributes significantly to children's subsequent success in learning to read at school, this paper explores the complex and powerful literacy learning that can develop from a certain style of whole class story reading to children whose home cultures would not otherwise give them…

That the emergent literacy perspective is gaining influence in the United States as a way of studying children's literacy acquisition. This report interprets emergent literacy research in light of the Vygotskian theory of learning and development. First, the report compares the emergent literacy perspective to the more traditional reading…

Designed to reveal children's awareness of print and use of contextual clues and to discover their metalinguistic awareness, language use, and attitudes toward reading and writing, this instrument consists of six tasks. The first three, print awareness tasks, present familiar labels and signs with different degrees of contextuality. The fourth and…

The rich oral language experiences given children in Russian preschools and primary schools accounts for their subsequent success in reading. (JH)

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM WERE TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE STUDENTS WHO HAVE POTENTIAL IN TERMS OF MENTAL ABILITY AND BEHAVIORAL STABILITY, AND TO CLOSE THE GAP BETWEEN THEIR RETARDED READING AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND REASONABLE GRADE EXPECTANCY. REMEDIAL READING TEACHERS WERE ASSIGNED TO TWO PROJECT SCHOOLS, EACH…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves approximately 800 four-year-old children enrolled at 26 public schools. The program was begun in 1965, and in 1971 major revisions were made in it. Children attend prekindergarten classes for two and one half hours a day, five days a week. Specific written objectives for…

This 3-year longitudinal study is exploring readiness skills of children between 5 and 8 years of age and proposes a design for curriculum development. In this study, generalized concepts, visual-motor triordination, visual and auditory discrimination, visual and auditory memory (imagery), and oral language usage, are identified in order to…

A study of the oral language of Native American children indicates that many are not proficient enough in English to learn to read. Suggestions are given for language development. (MKM)

This report describes a program for improving language and literacy development among young children. The targeted population consisted of public school children, ages three to five, enrolled in an early childhood special education program and an at-risk prekindergarten program. The problems of delayed language and literacy development skills were…

Provides several types of prereading activities that combine into one strategy stressing vocabulary, oral language development, and prediction. (FL)

A study examined whether environmental logos could be used as tools for beginning reading instruction. Logos are bold, colorfully adorned symbols featuring printed words in design formats that appear on products and advertisng signs. Subjects were 20 preschool children, half of whom were three and one-half years old, and the rest four and one-half…