ERIC Number: EJ762926
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 11
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0271-1214
Emerging Literacy Views and Practices: Results from a National Survey of Head Start Preschool Teachers
Hawken, Leanne S.; Johnston, Susan S.; McDonnell, Andrea P.
Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, v25 n4 p232-242 Win 2005
The authors conducted a national survey of Head Start preschool teachers to assess their views and practices related to emerging literacy. Results indicated that Head Start teachers use a variety of strategies to promote emerging literacy, with a major focus on book knowledge/appreciation and print awareness skills. The teachers indicated that they least frequently used strategies to improve phonological awareness skills. Many of the strategies teachers reported using involved creating opportunities for children to engage in emerging literacy activities and arranging the environment to improve emerging literacy. Overall, Head Start teachers endorsed the idea that emerging literacy skill instruction should occur on a daily basis. The authors also provide implications for the current study as it relates to research and practice.
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Teachers, Phonemes, Reading Skills, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Education, Surveys, Teacher Attitudes, Classroom Techniques, Literacy Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Preschool Education
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Language: English
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