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A Special Dvd Homework Project To Assist At-Risk Students With Reading Practice, Mary Kathleen Kronemeyer Jan 2012

A Special Dvd Homework Project To Assist At-Risk Students With Reading Practice, Mary Kathleen Kronemeyer

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The purpose of this project was designed to give students and their family's additional support in language arts through a technologically facilitated means to review the skills and strategies that are covered in one theme of the first grade Houghton Mifflin Reading Program. This project provides this additional instruction via a DVD which models ways for the students to practice spelling, practice sight words, reinforce the grammar shills of nouns and verbs and review definitions of vocabulary words.


Supporting Early Literacy Through Attachment-Based Parenting: An Intervention Project, Maureen Louise Stine Jan 2008

Supporting Early Literacy Through Attachment-Based Parenting: An Intervention Project, Maureen Louise Stine

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A Four-month intervention project consisting of regular parent training meetings and weekly take-home parent-child interactive literacy activities was implemented to examine the association between quality of mother-child interaction and preschoolers' early literacy development for five families enrolled in a state subsidized preschool program. The Palm Vista Family Home Literacy Program located in the high desert region of San Bernardino County was offered free of charge to all parents and their preschool aged children who were enrolled.


Creating A School Based Family Literacy Institute, Teresa Ann Cimino Jan 2007

Creating A School Based Family Literacy Institute, Teresa Ann Cimino

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The purpose of this project is to assist parents, through the development of a school-based Family Literacy Institute, to learn to actively help their children when they read at home. The study will teach parents how to pick appropriate books for and with their children and use them as a read aloud. It is, also, to get parents involved with their children's literacy development and to support their educational experiences from elementary school through high school.


Strategies For Monolingual Instructions To Use When Teaching Reading Comprehension To Bilingual Students, Toni Marie Bastian Jan 2001

Strategies For Monolingual Instructions To Use When Teaching Reading Comprehension To Bilingual Students, Toni Marie Bastian

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The major finding of this project is that through the use of multiple sign systems, monolingual teachers can support their bilingual students. These strategies employ the use of comprehensible input from the teacher, peer interaction, extended lanuage and activities for the students whose primary focus is to help the students make connections from the text to their own lives.


Parents Reading Aloud To Their Children, Margaret Anne Smith Jan 2000

Parents Reading Aloud To Their Children, Margaret Anne Smith

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No abstract provided.


Handbook On Emergent Literacy For The Preschool Parent, Laura Jean Grohowsky Jan 1993

Handbook On Emergent Literacy For The Preschool Parent, Laura Jean Grohowsky

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No abstract provided.