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Johanson, Megan; Justice, Laura M.; Logan, Jessica – Grantee Submission, 2016
Many preschool language-focused interventions attempt to boost language and literacy skills in young children at risk in these areas of development, though the long-term effects of such interventions are not well-established. This study investigated kindergarten language and reading skills, specifically the subcomponents of vocabulary, decoding,…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Reading Skills, Decoding (Reading), Intervention
Richa S. Deshmukh; Jill M. Pentimonti; Tricia A. Zucker; Bridget Curry – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: We studied conversations initiated through teacher questions during shared book reading in prekindergarten and kindergarten classrooms as these conversations provide opportunities for the teacher to scaffold emerging language skills. This study provides detailed analysis of scaffolding strategies used by teachers after children answered…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Teacher Student Relationship, Reading Aloud to Others, Preschool Teachers
Deshmukh, Richa S.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Tambyraja, Sharine R.; Pentimonti, Jill M.; Bowles, Ryan P.; Justice, Laura M. – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study examined the extent to which preschool teachers used different types of questions during classroom-based shared book reading. Our goals were to describe the question wording teachers use to elicit child responses and to consider sequential relations between types of question wording and student responses. Participants included 96…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques, Story Reading, Reading Aloud to Others
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Johanson, Megan; Justice, Laura M.; Logan, Jessica – Applied Developmental Science, 2016
Many preschool language-focused interventions attempt to boost language and literacy skills in young children at risk in these areas of development, though the long-term effects of such interventions are not well-established. This study investigated kindergarten language and reading skills, specifically the subcomponents of vocabulary, decoding,…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Education, Language Skills, Intervention