Supporting Early Literacy Skills through Preschool Writing Instruction in Therapeutic and Classroom Contexts

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 88-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Q. Cabell ◽  
Cynthia S. Puranik ◽  
Laura S. Tortorelli

In this article, the authors outline how writing during the preschool years is connected with the development of literacy and briefly discuss research on early writing development in children with language impairments. Next, the authors describe ways in which early writing can be assessed and facilitated both in therapeutic contexts and early childhood classrooms, including the collaborative role speech-language pathologists (SLPs) can play in providing early writing support for preschoolers.

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 482-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Justice ◽  
Jessica Logan ◽  
Joan Kaderavek ◽  
Mary Beth Schmitt ◽  
Virginia Tompkins ◽  
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2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Q. Cabell ◽  
Anita S. McGinty ◽  
Allison Breit ◽  
Laura Justice

Abstract In this article, the authors discuss high priority instructional targets that should be addressed in early childhood classrooms to support emergent and early literacy development. Additionally, this article discusses the collaborative role speech-language pathologists can play in providing early literacy support at varied stages of the RTI process.


2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carien Wilsenach

This study explored receptive vocabulary size and early literacy skills (namely: letter naming, knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences and early writing) in emergent bilingual Northern Sotho-English children. Two groups of Grade 1 learners were tested in both English and in Northern Sotho. Group 1 (N = 49) received their formal schooling in English, whilst group 2 (N = 50) received their formal schooling in Northern Sotho. Receptive vocabulary was tested using the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. Letter knowledge was assessed by asking learners to name letter cards, whilst knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences was tested by asking children to match letter cards with spoken sounds. Early writing was assessed by asking children to write their names. Statistical analyses indicated that both English and Northern Sotho receptive vocabulary knowledge had a significant effect on early literacy skills, whilst no main effect was found for the language of instruction. Group 1 performed significantly better than Group 2 in English receptive vocabulary, in knowledge of phonemegrapheme correspondences and in early writing, but no group differences were found for Northern Sotho receptive vocabulary or for letter knowledge. English receptive vocabulary significantly predicted the outcome of all of the early literacy skills, whilst Northern Sotho receptive vocabulary significantly predicted phoneme-grapheme correspondences and early writing.


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2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 54-56

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Rapi Halipani Matin ◽  
Euis Ety Rohaety ◽  
Lenny Nuraeni

One important aspect developed in early childhood is the ability of early literacy. For this reason, we need a learning media that can improve children's early literacy skills, one of which is pop-up book learning media. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of using pop-up book learning media on children's early literacy abilities. This study used the Quasi Experiment method with the Nonequevalent Control Group Design research design. The pre-test results showed that there was no significant difference in the experimental group and the control group with a p-value> 0.05 which was 0.065> 0.05 which was tested by the Mann Whitney test results. While the post-test results showed that the initial literacy ability after the application of the pop-up book learning media had a significant difference with the p-value <0.05 which was 0.236. Thus the pop-up book learning media significantly influences early childhood literacy abilities. Based on this study, the study recommends early childhood educators so that the pop-up book learning media can be used as a medium of learning to improve children's early literacy skills.


2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksis P. Kincaid ◽  
Scott R. McConnell ◽  
Alisha K. Wackerle-Hollman

Evidence of longitudinal relations between language and early literacy skills in early childhood and later reading (and other) achievement is growing, along with an expanding array of early education programs designed to improve later academic outcomes and prevent, reduce, or close later academic achievement gaps across groups. Assessment systems to support this intervention have been developed, but to date we have little evidence of these systems’ outcomes when used at a broad scale in community-based preschool programs. For this broad purpose, two research questions were addressed: (a) How much progress do children make on language and early literacy skills over the course of one school year? and (b) What is the relationship between child characteristics, baseline performance, and growth on language and early literacy skills? Results indicated growth over time for all measures and relations between child age, gender, and free-or-reduced-price status and students’ performance at the beginning of the school year, but (with one exception) no relation between these covariates and growth over time. Discussion centers on current status of language and early literacy assessment in early childhood education as well as needs and issues to be addressed in future research and program development.


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