Outcomes of an emergent literacy intervention in Head Start.
Journal of Educational PsychologyPublished 1 December 1994
Grover J. Whitehurst, Jeffery N. Epstein, Andrea L. Angell, Adam C. Payne, Deanne A. Crone, Janet E. Fischel
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Abstract
Classrooms of 4-year-olds attending Head Start were randomly assigned to an intervention condition, involving an add-on emergent literacy curriculum, or a control condition, involving the regular Head Start curriculum. Children in the intervention condition experienced interactive book reading at home and in the classroom as well as a classroom-based sound and letter awareness program. Children were pretested and posttested on standardized tests of language, writing, linguistic awareness, and print concepts
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