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Holiday, Steven – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
One of the staple components of "Sesame Street" over the last 50 years is the short, animated segments that periodically interrupt the narratives and focus on brief educational and literacy concepts. Histories of the show have recognized these segments and referred to them as commercials, but to date, literature lacks a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Literacy, Childrens Television, Educational Strategies
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Zhang, Kunkun; Djonov, Emilia; Torr, Jane – Children's Literature in Education, 2016
"Bookaboo" is a television programme aiming to promote literacy and reading among young children. In each episode, a celebrity reads a book to Bookaboo, a dog who plays the drums in a rock band, in order to help him overcome stage fright. Using the episode featuring the picture book (Cowell and Layton in "That Rabbit Belongs to…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Childrens Television, Young Children, Emergent Literacy
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Nicholas, Maria – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2018
This paper explores the affordances of using video-based research to capture a multiplicity of events, along with multimodal representations when producing data related to adult-child book readings. In doing this we answer two questions: (1) why more than one event is needed when seeking a comprehensive collection of information for the purpose of…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Protocol Analysis, Intermode Differences, Caregiver Child Relationship
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Fletcher, Janice W.; Price, Beth A.; Branen, Laurel J. – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2010
With increasing accessibility to quality video recording technology, researchers and trainers can create data sets that are rich in content and application. Practical and ethical aspects of videotaping children and staff for research and teaching purposes are critical to successful use of videotaping. Taping and equipment strategies for achieving…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Video Technology, Educational Technology, Protocol Materials
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Jennings, Nancy A.; Hooker, Steven D.; Linebarger, Deborah L. – Learning, Media and Technology, 2009
Research on children's television suggests that preschool programs can facilitate literacy and language development. In 1998 Whitehurst and Lonigan described two interdependent sets of skills involved in literacy acquisition: "outside-in" or oral language skills and "inside-out" or code-related skills. Outside-in skills support children's…
Descriptors: Written Language, Production Techniques, Oral Language, Preschool Children
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Szechter, Lisa E.; Liben, Lynn S. – Child Development, 2004
This research was designed to observe whether parents guide their children's understanding of spatial-graphic representations and, if so, to describe the quality of the strategies they use. Parents read a picture book to their preschoolers (3 or 5 years, N=31) and children completed spatial-graphic comprehension tasks. Observational data revealed…
Descriptors: Production Techniques, Picture Books, Young Children, Spatial Ability
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Rivera, Hector; Galarza, Sheri Lyn; Entz, Susan; Tharp, Roland G. – Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, 2002
Technology can facilitate a pedagogy-based on neo-Vygotskian sociocultural theory, and on developmentally appropriate instruction. This article reviews the basic principles of such a pedagogy, and then presents a detailed case study of one day's instruction in a preschool classroom, that is richly infused with a system employing digital…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Social Theories