Preschool Language and Literacy

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What Works Clearinghouse Early Childhood Education Intervention Report: Dialogic Reading

This intervention report summarizes WWC's review of research on dialogic reading and its effect on children's language- and literacy-related learning outcomes.

What Works Clearinghouse Early Childhood Education Intervention Report: Interactive Shared Book Reading

This intervention report summarizes WWC's review of research on interactive shared book reading and its effect on children's language- and literacy-related learning outcomes.

What Works Clearinghouse Early Childhood Education Intervention Report: Shared Book Reading

This intervention report summarizes WWC's review of research on shared book reading and its effect on children's language- and literacy-related learning outcomes.

Reading Rockets: Repeated Interactive Read-Alouds in Preschool and Kindergarten

This article discusses read-aloud techniques and provides examples of the repeated interactive read-aloud approach that increases preschool and kindergarten children's engagement, understanding, and appreciation of literature and reading. Excerpts from repeated interactive read-alouds of the same book over three days demonstrate how children's participation changes over time.

U.S. Department of Education: Early Reading First Program

The Early Reading First Program helps prepare children to enter kindergarten with the necessary language, cognitive, and early reading skills to prevent reading difficulties and ensure academic success. This website describes the program's key components and operation.

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): Child Development & Behavior (CDB) Branch — Early Learning and School Readiness Program

The NICHD CDB Branch develops scientific initiatives and supports research and research training relevant to the psychological, psychobiological, language, behavioral, and educational development of children. The branch's Early Learning and School Readiness Program supports research that attempts to specify the experiences children need from birth to age eight to help them to learn, read, and ultimately succeed in school.

¡Colorín Colorado!

This website provides information, activities, and advice for educators and Spanish-speaking families of English language learners (ELLs). Colorín Colorado's mission is to find research-based and best-practice information about teaching reading to ELLs and use the power and reach of the Internet to make it widely available to parents, educators, and policymakers. Because Spanish is the native language of 80 percent of ELLs, the site is currently focusing their bilingual efforts there. However, they do have some materials available in additional languages and are constantly looking to expand their language base. The site is an educational initiative of the WETA public television and radio station and a service of the Reading Rockets Project.