24-Month-Old Children With Larger Oral Vocabularies Display Greater Academic and Behavioral Functioning at Kindergarten Entry

Child Development

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1351-1370

  Morgan, Paul L ^a   Farkas, George ^b   Hillemeier, Marianne M ^a   Hammer, Carol Scheffner ^c   Maczuga, Steve ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; READING; SCHOOL; SELF CONTROL; UNITED STATES;

ACHIEVEMENT; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATHEMATICS; READING; SCHOOLS; SELF-CONTROL; UNITED STATES; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84941260354     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12398     Document Type: Article

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