Assessing preschoolers' emergent literacy skills in English and Spanish with the Get Ready to Read! screening tool

Annals of Dyslexia

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-178

  Farver, JoAnn M ^a   Nakamoto, Jonathan ^a   Lonigan, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

E GRTR; Early literacy; English language learners; Get Ready to Read! Screener English Spanish; Literacy skills; Preschoolers; S GRTR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DYSLEXIA; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEGRO; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AWARENESS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DYSLEXIA; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 38449110203     PISSN: 07369387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11881-007-0007-9     Document Type: Article

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