Learning new words from storybooks: An efficacy study with at-risk kindergartners

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-32

  Justice, Laura M ^a   Meier, Joanne ^a   Walpole, Sharon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

At risk children; Book reading; Language intervention; Vocabulary; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 15844393662     PISSN: 01611461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/0161-1461(2005/003)     Document Type: Article

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