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Segal, Aviva; Howe, Nina; Persram, Ryan J.; Martin-Chang, Sandra; Ross, Hildy – Reading Research Quarterly, 2018
Research on the home literacy environment has typically involved parents as teachers with little attention given to siblings' roles in teaching each other. This study examines naturalistic language and literacy teaching by 39 sibling dyads, at two timepoints, when children were ages 2 and 4 (time 1; T1) and again at ages 4 and 6 (time 2; T2). Each…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Family Environment, Sibling Relationship, Language Acquisition
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Speece, Deborah L.; Ritchey, Kristen D.; Cooper, David H.; Roth, Froma P.; Schatschneider, Christopher – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2004
We examined models of individual change and correlates of change in the growth of reading skills in a sample of 40 children from kindergarten through third grade. A broad range of correlates was examined and included family literacy, oral language, emergent reading, intelligence, spelling, and demographic variables. Individual growth curve…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Skills, Primary Education, Young Children
Neuman, Susan B., Ed.; Dickinson, David K., Ed. – 2001
This handbook brings together leading authorities to provide a comprehensive account of current knowledge in the early literacy field. The chapters are: (1)"Introduction" (Neuman and Dickinson); (2) "Emergent Literacy: Development from Prereaders to Readers" (Whitehurst and Lonigan); (3) "A Sociocultural Perspective on…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingualism, Brain, Early Childhood Education