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Handbook of early literacy research

The field of early literacy has seen significant recent advances in theory, research, and practice. This volume brings together leading authorities to report on current findings, integrate insights from different disciplinary perspectives, and explore ways to provide children with the strongest poss...

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Other Authors: Neuman, Susan B., Dickinson, David K.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Guilford Press, c2001-<c2006>
Physical Description: volumes <1-3> : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Subjects:
Language arts (Early childhood) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Reading (Early childhood) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Language arts (Early childhood) -- Research -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Children -- Language -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Vol. 1 : Emergent literacy : development from prereaders to readers / Grover J. Whitehurst, Christopher J. Lonigan
  • A sociocultural perspective on early literacy development / James Paul Gee
  • Literacy and oral language : implications for early literacy acquisition / Rita Watson
  • Some theoretical and methodological considerations in studying literacy in social context / A.D. Pellegrini
  • Alphabetic anxiety and explicit, systematic phonics instruction : a cognitive science perspective / Marilyn J. Adams
  • Brains, genes, and environment in reading development / Richard K. Olson, Javier Gayan
  • Connecting early language and literacy to later reading (dis)abilities : evidence, theory, and practice / Hollis S. Scarborough
  • Early phonological development and the acquisition of literacy / Usha Goswami
  • Writing and children's symbolic repertoires : development unhinged / Anne Haas Dyson
  • Invented spelling, phonemic awareness, and reading and writing instruction / Donald J. Richgels
  • Young bilingual children and early literacy development / Patton O. Tabors, Catherine E. Snow
  • Joint caregiver-child storybook reading : a route to literacy development / Adriana G. Bus
  • Early language and literacy skills in low-income African American and Hispanic children / Lynne Vernon-Feagans ... [et al.]
  • Making schools work for low-income families in the 21st century / Claude Goldenberg
  • The complex interplay between biology and environment : Otitis media and mediating effects on early literacy development / Joanne E. Roberts, Margaret R. Burchinal
  • Early literacy and developmentally appropriate practice : rethinking the paradigm / Rebecca S. New
  • The nature and impact of early childhood care environments on the language and early literacy development of children from low-income families / David K. Dickinson, Kimberley E. Sprague
  • Environment and its influences for early literacy teaching and learning / Kathleen Roskos, Susan B. Neuman
  • Emergent literacy skills, early instruction, and individual differences as determinants of difficulties in learning to read : the case for early intervention / Frank R. Vellutino, Donna M. Scanlon
  • Early intervention for African American children considered to be at risk / Dorothy S. Strickland
  • Teaching phonics and phonological awareness / Steven A. Stahl
  • Literature-based instruction in the early years / Lesley Mandel Morrow, Linda B. Gambrell
  • The texts of beginning reading instruction / Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Leigh Ann Martin
  • Early literacy development : the case for "informed assessment" / Peter H. Johnston, Rebecca Rogers
  • Assessing the literacy of young children : the case for multiple forms of evidence / Terry Salinger
  • Preschool education for economically disadvantaged children : effects on reading achievement and related outcomes / W. Steven Barnett
  • Intergenerational family literacy : concepts, research, and practice / Barbara Hanna Wasik, Dionne R. Dobbins, Suzannah Herrmann
  • The complex world of one-on-one tutoring / Marcia A. Invernizzi
  • Title 1 and special education : support for children who struggle to learn to read / Anne McGill-Franzen, Virginia Goatley.
  • Vol. 2: Part I. Cognitive and Linguistic Building Blocks of Early Literacy. 1. A Window of Opportunity We Must Open to All: the case for preschool with high-quality support for language and literacy/ David K. Dickinson, Allyssa McCabe, and Marilyn J. Essex
  • 2. The Knowledge Gap: Implications for Early Education / Susan B. Neuman
  • 3. Vocabulary Development and Instruction: a prerequisite for school learning / Andrew Biemiller
  • 4. Literacy Development: Insights from Research on Skilled Reading / Jane Ashby and Keith Rayner
  • 5. Neurobiological Investigations of Skilled and Impaired Reading / Kenneth R. Pugh, Rebecca Sandak, Stephen J. Frost, Dina L. Moore, and W. Einar Mencl
  • Part II. Phonemic Awareness and Letter Knowledge. 6. Conceptualizing Phonological Processing Skills in Prereaders / Christopher J. Lonigan
  • 7. The Development of Phonological Sensitivity / Stephen R. Burgess
  • 8. Phonemic Awareness and Reading: Beyond the Growth of Initial Reading Accuracy / Beth M. Phillips and Joseph K. Torgesen
  • 9. The Roots of Learning to Read and Write: acquisition of letters and phonemic awareness / Linnea C. Ehri and Theresa Roberts
  • Part III. Families and Relationships: Socioeconomic and Linguistic Supports. 10. The Influence of Parenting on Emerging Literacy Skills / Susan H. Landry and Karen E. Smith
  • 11. Teacher-Child Relationships and Early Literacy / Robert C. Pianta
  • 12. Environmental Supports for Language Acquisition / Erika Hoff
  • 13. The Misunderstood Giant: on the predictive role of early vocabulary to future reading / Monique Senechal, Gene Ouellette, and Donna Rodney
  • Part IV. Cultural and Linguistic Diversity. 14. Effective Interventions for English Language Learners (Spanish-English) at Risk for Reading Difficulties/ Sharon Vaughn, Sylvia Linan-Thompson, Sharolyn D. Pollard-Durodola, Patricia G. Mathes, and Elsa Cardenas Hagan
  • 15. Recent Research on the Language and Literacy Skills of African American Students in the Early Years / Holly K. Craig and Julie A. Washington
  • 16. Cultural Diversity in Early Literacy: Findings in Dutch Studies / Paul P.M. Leseman and Cathy van Tuijl
  • 17. Considering Culture in Research-Based Interventions to Support Early Literacy / Stuart McNaughton
  • Part V. Supporting Literacy in Preschool Classrooms. 18. Vygotskian Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Early Literacy / Elena Bodrova and Deborah J. Leong
  • 19. Preschool Classroom Environments and the Quantity and Quality of Children's Literacy and Language Behaviors / Dale C. Farran, Canan Aydogan, Shin Ji Kang, and Mark W. Lipsey
  • 20. The Relationships between Sociodramatic Play and Literacy Development / Lesley Mandel Morrow and Judith A. Schickedanz
  • 21. Encouraging Young Children's Language Interactions with Stories / Margaret G. McKeown and Isabel L. Beck
  • 22. Early Literacy Policy and Pedagogy / Kathleen Roskos and Carol Vukelich
  • VI. Programmatic Interventions During the Preschool Years. 23. Reading Ahead: Effective Interventions for Young Children's Early Literacy Development / Pia Rebello Britto, Allison S. Fuligni, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
  • 24. A Pediatric Approach to Early Literacy / Robert Needlman, Perri Klass, and Barry Zuckerman
  • 25. Emergent Literacy of Low-Income Children in Head Start: Relationships with Child and Family Characteristics, Program Factors, and Classroom Quality / Nicholas Zill and Gary Resnick
  • VII. Toward Effective Primary-Grade Instruction. 26. The Transition to School / Frederick J. Morrison, Carol McDonald Connor, and Heather J. Bachman
  • 27. Perspectives on the Difficulty of Beginning Reading Texts / Elfrieda H. Hiebert and Heidi Anne E. Mesmer
  • 28. The Impact of Early School Experiences on Initial Reading / Connie Juel
  • 29. Policy Decisions in Early Literacy Assessment / Terry Salinger
  • 30. Early Educational Interventions: Principles of Effective and Sustained Benefits from Targeted Early Education Programs / Sharon Landesman Ramey and Craig T. Ramey
  • Index.
  • Vol. 3: Early language experience is vital to developing fluency in understanding / A. Fernald, A. Weisleder
  • Self-regulation and early literacy / C. Blair, J. Protzko, A. Ursache
  • Variability in language development / M. Vasilyeva, H. Waterfall
  • Lessons from the crib for the classroom / J. Harris, R. Golinkoff, K. Hirsh-Pasek
  • Lexical reorganization and the emergence of phonological awareness / J. Metsala
  • Development of early literacy / M. Burchinal, N. Forestieri
  • Emergent literacy environments / K. Sylva, L. Chan, E. Melhuish, P. Sammons, I. Siraj-Blatchford, B. Taggart
  • Beginning with language / C. Hammer, S. Scarpino, M. Davison
  • Supporting the language and early literacy skills of English language learners / M. Paez, K. Bock, L. Pizzo
  • Young children with language impairments / A. Kaiser, M. Roberts, R. McLeod
  • A model of the concurrent and longitudinal relations between home literacy and child outcomes / M. Senechal
  • Home support of children in the writing process / D. Aram, I. Levin
  • Developing children's print knowledge through adult-child storybook reading interactions / L. Justice, S. Piasta
  • Evidence-based computer interventions targeting phonological awareness to prevent reading problems in at-risk young students / V. van der Kooy-Hofland, C. Kegel, A. Bus
  • Developmental differences in early reading skills / S. Paris
  • Studying and modifying young children's visual attention during book reading / M. Evans, J. Saint-Aubin
  • Child characteristics-instruction interactions / C. Connor
  • Fostering early development and school readiness in pediatric settings / A. Mendelsohn, B. Dreyer, C. Brockmeyer, S. Berkule-Silberman, L. Morrow
  • Improving the outcomes of coaching-based professional development interventions / D. Powell, K. Diamond
  • Effective teacher-child interactions and children's literacy / A. Henry, R. Pianta
  • Identifying critical components of an effective preschool language and literacy coaching intervention / B. Wasik, A. Hindman
  • Why are so few interventions really effective? / D. Dickinson, J. Freiberg, E. Barnes
  • The challenge of teaching vocabulary in early education / S. Neuman
  • Assessment in early literacy research / C. Snow, S. Oh
  • Tell me a story : examining the benefits of shared reading / A. Cunningham, J. Zibulsky
  • Language and literacy insights from research based on Early Head Start / B. Pan
  • Professional development for early childhood educators / M. Zaslow, K. Tout, T. Halle, R. Starr
  • Preschool education's effects on language and literacy / W. Barnett, E. Frede.
  • Emergent literacy : development from prereaders to readers / Grover J. Whitehurst, Christopher J. Lonigan
  • A sociocultural perspective on early literacy development / James Paul Gee
  • Literacy and oral language : implications for early literacy acquisition / Rita Watson
  • Some theoretical and methodological considerations in studying literacy in social context / A.D. Pellegrini
  • Alphabetic anxiety and explicit, systematic phonics instruction : a cognitive science perspective / Marilyn J. Adams
  • Brains, genes, and environment in reading development / Richard K. Olson, Javier Gayan
  • Connecting early language and literacy to later reading (dis)abilities : evidence, theory, and practice / Hollis S. Scarborough
  • Early phonological development and the acquisition of literacy / Usha Goswami
  • Writing and children's symbolic repertoires : development unhinged / Anne Haas Dyson
  • Invented spelling, phonemic awareness, and reading and writing instruction / Donald J. Richgels
  • Young bilingual children and early literacy development / Patton O. Tabors, Catherine E. Snow
  • Joint caregiver-child storybook reading : a route to literacy development / Adriana G. Bus
  • Early language and literacy skills in low-income African American and Hispanic children / Lynne Vernon-Feagans ... [et al.]
  • Making schools work for low-income families in the 21st century / Claude Goldenberg
  • The complex interplay between biology and environment : otitis media and mediating effects on early literacy development / Joanne E. Roberts, Margaret R. Burchinal
  • Early literacy and developmentally appropriate practice : rethinking the paradigm / Rebecca S. New
  • The nature and impact of early childhood care environments on the language and early literacy development of children from low-income families / David K. Dickinson, Kimberley E. Sprague
  • Environment and its influences for early literacy teaching and learning / Kathleen Roskos, Susan B. Neuman
  • Emergent literacy skills, early instruction, and individual differences as determinants of difficulties in learning to read : the case for early intervention / Frank R. Vellutino, Donna M. Scanlon
  • Early intervention for African American children considered to be at risk / Dorothy S. Strickland
  • Teaching phonics and phonological awareness / Steven A. Stahl
  • Literature-based instruction in the early years / Lesley Mandel Morrow, Linda B. Gambrell
  • The texts of beginning reading instruction / Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Leigh Ann Martin
  • Early literacy development : the case for "informed assessment" / Peter H. Johnston, Rebecca Rogers
  • Assessing the literacy of young children : the case for multiple forms of evidence / Terry Salinger
  • Preschool education for economically disadvantaged children : effects on reading achievement and related outcomes / W. Steven Barnett
  • Intergenerational family literacy : concepts, research, and practice / Barbara Hanna Wasik, Dionne R. Dobbins, Suzannah Herrmann
  • The complex world of one-on-one tutoring / Marcia A. Invernizzi
  • Title 1 and special education : support for children who struggle to learn to read / Anne McGill-Franzen, Virginia Goatley.

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