Effective behavior management in preschool classrooms and children's task orientation: Enhancing emergent literacy and language development

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 420-429

  Dobbs Oates, Jennifer ^a   Kaderavek, Joan N ^b   Guo, Ying ^c   Justice, Laura M ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior management; Emergent literacy; Language; Preschool; Task orientation; Teachers

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052281878     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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