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Mix, Kelly S.; Sandhofer, Catherine M.; Moore, Julie Anne; Russell, Christina – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2012
We investigated whether specific input helps 3-1/2-year-olds discover that the last word in a count represents its cardinal value (i.e., the cardinal word principle). In Study 1, we contrasted four training approaches. The only approach to yield significant improvement was to label a set's cardinality and then immediately count it. This training…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Preschool Children, Young Children, Early Childhood Education
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Blewitt, Pamela; Rump, Keiran M.; Shealy, Stephanie E.; Cook, Samantha A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
Shared book reading, and the conversation that accompanies it, can facilitate young children's vocabulary growth. To identify the features of extratextual questions that help 3-year-olds learn unfamiliar words during shared book reading, two experiments explored the impact of cognitive demand level, placement, and an approximation to scaffolding.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Vocabulary Development, Books, Story Reading
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Allen, Susan F. – Children & Schools, 2009
Prevention programs in schools are one response to youth, community, and family violence. Many of these programs target older children and adolescents. This quasi-experimental study evaluated the preschool curriculum of the Peacemakers program, which was developed by a consortium of social service agencies for implementation in schools. This…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, Experimental Groups, Prevention, Holistic Approach