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Download full textNeuman, Susan B. – American Educator, 2019
The early years are times of wonder for children. Curious about everything, they seek to explore and understand their world. During these early years, they attempt to interpret their world and make meaning through pretend play, drawing, and conversations with those closest to them. Although these first steps toward literacy may not look much like…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Preschool Education, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children
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This study examines the potential of educational media to provide preschool-aged dual language learners (DLLs) with vocabulary in a new language. Drawing from dual-coding theory, the current study investigated how three distinct instructional contexts with varying degrees of incidental-intentional vocabulary exposure on screen might facilitate…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Delaney, Katherine K.; Neuman, Susan B. – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: Educational policy is informed by multiple stakeholders and actors. Research has focused on understanding how policy decisions are informed and made, as well as how teachers and school leaders take up these policies in their practice. However, few researchers have examined how educational policy is framed for the larger public…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Access to Education, Preschool Education, Mass Media Effects
Neuman, Susan B. – Educational Leadership, 2014
Universal preschool has the potential to close the knowledge gap--but only if we consider how to best teach preschoolers. Unbridled enthusiasm for universal preschool must be balanced with thoughtful consideration of what goes on in these classrooms, and what activities will most support children's learning. Content-centered classrooms help…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children
Neuman, Susan B. – Albert Shanker Institute, 2014
The Preschool Educational Environment Rating System (PEERS) is a measure designed to examine the quality of instruction in preschool settings. Unlike other rating scales, it not only measures the environment, it also examines both how teachers construct their classroom for instruction and the quality of the enactment of instruction. Designed on…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Educational Quality, Preschool Education, Educational Environment
Samudra, Preeti G.; Wong, Kevin M.; Neuman, Susan B. – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2019
Children from diverse backgrounds are able to learn new words from educational media. However, learning is often partial and fragile, leaving much room for uncovering strategies that can increase the efficacy of educational media in supporting children's vocabulary knowledge. The present study investigated one such strategy--repeated viewing of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Student Diversity, Vocabulary Development
Samudra, Preeti G.; Wong, Kevin M.; Neuman, Susan B. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Children from diverse backgrounds are able to learn new words from educational media. However, learning is often partial and fragile, leaving much room for uncovering strategies that can increase the efficacy of educational media in supporting children's vocabulary knowledge. The present study investigated one such strategy--repeated viewing of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Student Diversity, Vocabulary Development
Neuman, Susan B.; Wong, Kevin M.; Kaefer, Tanya – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of digital and non-digital storybooks on low-income preschoolers' oral language comprehension. Employing a within-subject design on 38 four-year-olds from a Head Start program, we compared the effect of medium on preschoolers' target words and comprehension of stories. Four digital…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Statistical Analysis, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Neuman, Susan B.; Wong, Kevin M.; Kaefer, Tanya – Grantee Submission, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of digital and non-digital storybooks on low-income preschoolers' oral language comprehension. Employing a within-subject design on 38 four-year-olds from a Head Start program, we compared the effect of medium on preschoolers' target words and comprehension of stories. Four digital…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Story Reading, Low Income Groups, Disadvantaged Youth
Flynn, Rachel M.; Wong, Kevin M.; Neuman, Susan B.; Kaefer, Tanya – Grantee Submission, 2019
Educational screen media is increasingly salient in the lives of young children. Research affirms preschool-aged children can learn content from media when they attend to it, however less is known about how specific screen-based pedagogical supports (SBPS) might draw children's attention. Using eye-tracking methodology, the current study examines…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Preschool Children, Attention, Eye Movements
Improving Low-Income Preschoolers' Word and World Knowledge: The Effects of Content-Rich Instruction
Neuman, Susan B.; Kaefer, Tanya; Pinkham, Ashley M. – Elementary School Journal, 2016
This study examined the efficacy of a shared book-reading approach to integrating literacy and science instruction. The purpose was to determine whether teaching science vocabulary using information text could improve low-income preschoolers' word knowledge, conceptual development, and content knowledge in the life sciences. Teachers in 17…
Descriptors: Low Income, Preschool Children, Literacy Education, Science Instruction
Neuman, Susan B.; Pinkham, Ashley; Kaefer, Tanya – Early Education and Development, 2015
The purpose of this study was to support teachers' child-directed language and student outcomes by enhancing the educative features of an intervention targeted to vocabulary, conceptual development and comprehension. Using a set of design heuristics (Davis & Krajcik, 2005), our goal was to support teachers' professional development within the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Preschool Education, Preschool Curriculum, Faculty Development
Neuman, Susan B.; Wright, Tanya S. – Teachers College Press, 2013
Vocabulary forms a relentless divide between children who succeed and those who do not. This divide is often between poor children and their privileged counterparts. Without vocabulary knowledge, children cannot interpret text meaningfully or respond in ways that enable them to fully participate in classroom discussions. "All About…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Neuman, Susan B.; Dwyer, Julie – Journal of Literacy Research, 2011
The purpose of this design experiment was to research, test, and iteratively derive principles of word learning and word organization that could help to theoretically advance our understanding of vocabulary development for low-income preschoolers. Six Head Start teachers in morning and afternoon programs and their children (N = 89) were selected…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Intervention, Income, Disadvantaged Youth
Marulis, Loren M.; Neuman, Susan B. – Review of Educational Research, 2010
This meta-analysis examines the effects of vocabulary interventions on pre-K and kindergarten children's oral language development. The authors quantitatively reviewed 67 studies and 216 effect sizes to better understand the impact of training on word learning. Results indicated an overall effect size of 0.88, demonstrating, on average, a gain of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Oral Language, Effect Size, Kindergarten
