My Magic Story Car: Video-Based Play Intervention to Strengthen Emergent Literacy of At-Risk Preschoolers

Play = Learning: How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bellin, Harvey F ^a   Singer, Dorothy G ^b,c  

^a Media Group of Connecticut Inc   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

At risk children; Development; Early childhood; Emergent literacy; Learning; Make believe play; My magic story car; Preschool children; Socioemotional skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920381831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195304381.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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