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Washington, Karla N.; Westby, Carol; Fritz, Kristina; Crowe, Kathryn; Karem, Rachel Wright; Basinger, Melanie – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to characterize narrative competence of typically developing bilingual children using Jamaican Creole (JC) and English. Method: Story comprehension and fictional storytelling tasks in JC and English were completed by 104 bilingual preschoolers aged 4-6 years. Story comprehension was analyzed using inferential…
Descriptors: Creoles, English, Bilingualism, Preschool Children
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Webster, Paula Sunanon – Reading Teacher, 2009
This exploratory study describes the instructional strategies and related activities a Grade 1 teacher and I used to promote engagements with informational texts in one rural Jamaican primary school. Some of the instructional strategies and activities were bridging connections from the known to the unknown, reading aloud to increase content…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Story Grammar, Grade 1