Research in Young Children's Literacy and Language Development : Language and literacy development for different populations (Paperback)

Introduction ? Literacy and language: new developments in research, theory, and practice Olivia N. Saracho 1. Research, policy, and practice in early childhood literacy Olivia N. Saracho 2. Early reading and practice-inspired research Susan Hill 3. Creating mathematicians and scientists: disciplinary literacy in the early childhood classroom Maria Boeke Mongillo 4. Is dosage important? Examining Head Start preschoolers’ language and literacy learning after one versus two years of ExCELL Annemarie H. Hindman and Barbara A. Wasik 5. Testing a nested skills model of the relations among invented spelling, accurate spelling, and word reading, from kindergarten to grade 1 Monique Senechal 6. Young dual language learners’ emergent writing development Cristina Gillanders, Ximena Franco, Kent Seidel, Dina C. Castro and Lucia I. Mendez 7. Quality standards matter: a comparative case study examining interactive writing in the preschool setting Anna H. Hall 8. Understanding influences on writing instruction: cases of two kindergarten teachers Sarah J. McCarthey and Grace Kang 9. Scaffolded writing and early literacy development with children who are deaf: a case study Bridget Scott-Weich and David B. Yaden 10. Contributions of Skinner’s theory of verbal behaviour to language interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders Gaige Johnson, Kelly Kohler and Denise Ross 11. The effects of the Language for Learning programme on the social adjustment of kindergarten children Gregory J. Benner and Songtian Zeng 12. Are young children’s utterances affected by characteristics of their learning environments? A multiple case study Tanya Richardson and Jane Murray 13. Translanguaging in a Reggio-inspired Spanish dual-language immersion programme Laura Alamillo, Cathy Yun and Lisa H. Bennett 14. Conversation Compassⓒ Communication Screener: a conversation screener for teachers Shari L. Gardner and Stephanie M. Curenton 15. Talking about talk: reviewing oracy in English primary education Deborah Jones 16. Talking the talk: translating research to practice Jill F. Grifenhagen, Erica M. Barnes, Molly F. Collins and David K. Dickinson 17. Language insights for caregivers with young children Alice Sterling Honig 18. Investigating predictors of fidelity of implementation for a preschool vocabulary and language curriculum Beth M. Phillips, Smriti A. Ingrole, Pamela W. Burris and Galiya Tabulda 19. Parents’ shared storybook reading ? learning to read Olivia N. Saracho 20. Multimodal play?literacy: a preschooler’s storytelling, drawing, and performing of dinosaur extinction theories Koeun Kim and Koomi Kim 21. Increasing early reading skills in young signing deaf children using shared book reading: a feasibility study Jean F. Andrews, Hsiu-Tan Liu, Chun-Jung Liu, Mary Anne Gentry and Zanthia Smith 22. Informational and fictional books: young children’s book preferences and teachers’ perspectives Huseyin Kotaman and Ali Kemal Tekin 23. A small-scale, feasibility study of academic language time in primary grade language arts Kathleen A. Roskos, Nicole Zuzolo and Ashley Primm 24. Literacy in the twenty-first century: children, families and policy Olivia N. Saracho 25. Family literacy programmes and young children’s language and literacy development: paying attention to families’ home language Jim Anderson, Ann Anderson and Assadullah Sadiq 26. Effective interventions to strengthen early language and literacy skills in low-income countries: comparison of a family-focused approach and a pre-primary programme in Ethiopia Ivelina Borisova, Lauren Pisani, Amy Jo Dowd and Hsiao-Chen Lin 27. Early literacy programme as support for immigrant children and as transfer to early numeracy Ofra Korat, Aviva Gitait, Deborah Bergman Deitcher and Zmira Mevarech 28. Childcare, language-use, and vocabulary of second-generation Latino immigrant children growing up in a new immigrant enclave in the United States Natalia Palacios, Amanda K. Kibler and Ashley Simpson Baird 29. Supporting preschool dual language learners: parents’ and teachers’ beliefs about language development and collaboration Brook E. Sawyer, Patricia H. Manz and Kristin A. Martin 30. The relative importance of English versus Spanish language skills for low-income Latino English language learners’ early language and literacy development Susan Sonnenschein, Shari R. Metzger, Rebecca Dowling and Linda Baker 31. Assessing the early literacy skills of toddlers: the development of four foundational measures Daniel J. Weigel, Sally S. Martin and Jennifer L. Lowman 32. Development of the language proficiency of five- to seven-year-olds in rural areas B. G. Poolman, P. P. M. Leseman, J. M. Doornenbal and A. E. M. G. Minnaert 33. Evidence-based reform: enhancing language and literacy in early childhood education Robert E. Slavin and Bette Chambers