A descriptive review and meta-analysis of family-based emergent literacy interventions: To what extent is the research applicable to low-income, ethnic-minority or linguistically-diverse young children?

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 409-431

  Manz, Patricia H ^a   Hughes, Cheyenne ^a   Barnabas, Ernesto ^a   Bracaliello, Catherine ^a   Ginsburg Block, Marika ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caregiver child bookreading; Dialogic reading; Emergent literacy; Family involvement; Family, Literacy; Young children

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957748390     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2010.03.002     Document Type: Review

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