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Pedagogical Scaffolding: Resourcing Children's Amazing Capacity to Learn and Uptake Language
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van Hees, Jannie – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2018
This article considers the important matter of language availability in the lives of babies and children. Without this language availability, knowing, thinking, and expression cannot blossom and mature. It draws on insights gained during a research study of 5-6-year-old children in low socioeconomic schools, designed to explore the impact of…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Language Acquisition, Young Children, Early Childhood Teachers
Children with Down Syndrome Sharing Past Personal Event Narratives with Their Teacher Aides: A Pilot Study
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van Bysterveldt, Anne K.; Westerveld, Marleen F. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2017
Personal narrative ability is crucial for social-emotional well-being and classroom participation. This study investigated the ability of 10 school-age participants with Down syndrome to share past personal experiences with their teacher aides in their school environment. To participate, children were required to speak in short sentences and be…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Down Syndrome, Teacher Aides, Pilot Projects
Links between Early Oral Narrative and Decoding Skills and Later Reading in a New Zealand Sample
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Schaughency, Elizabeth; Suggate, Sebastian; Reese, Elaine – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2017
We examined earlier oral narrative and decoding and later reading in two samples spanning the first four years of reading instruction. The Year 1 sample (n = 44) was initially assessed after one year of instruction (M = 6; 1 years) and followed through their third year (M = 8; 1 years); the Year 2 sample (n = 34) assessed after two years of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decoding (Reading), Oral Reading, Reading Fluency
The Effects of Preliteracy Knowledge, Schooling, and Summer Vacation on Literacy Acquisition
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Tiruchittampalam, Shanthi; Nicholson, Tom; Levin, Joel R.; Ferron, John M. – Journal of Educational Research, 2018
What causes the literacy gap and can schools compensate for it? The authors investigated 3 drivers of the gap: preliteracy knowledge, schooling, and the summer vacation. Longitudinal literacy data over 5 time points were collected on 126 five-year-olds attending higher or lower socioeconomic status (SES) schools during their first 15 months of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Longitudinal Studies, Socioeconomic Status, Prereading Experience
The Emergent Literacy Skills of Four-Year-Old Children Receiving Free Kindergarten Early Childhood Education in New Zealand
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Westerveld, Marleen F.; Gillon, Gail T.; van Bysterveldt, Anne K.; Boyd, Lynda – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2015
This study investigated the emergent literacy and language skills of four-year-old children in New Zealand during their kindergarten year prior to school-entry. A total of 92 four-year-old children from a range of socio-economic areas were seen individually at their local kindergarten and were assessed on code-related measures (letter name…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy
Maternal Reminiscing, Elaborative Talk, and Children's Theory of Mind: An Intervention Study
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Taumoepeau, Mele; Reese, Elaine – First Language, 2013
This study examined the impact of training mothers to talk elaboratively about the past on children's understanding of mind. The researchers randomly assigned 102 mothers of 19-month-old children to a training or no-training group. Mothers in the experimental group received training in an elaborative style of talking about the past when children…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Theory of Mind, Expressive Language