Kindergarten Impacts of a Preschool Language-Focused Intervention

摘要: Many preschool language-focused interventions attempt to boost language and literacy skills in young children at risk these areas of development, though the long-term effects such are not well-established. This study investigated kindergarten reading skills, specifically subcomponents vocabulary, decoding, comprehension, for exposed intervention Learning Language Loving It (LLLI; Weitzman & Greenberg, 2002) during preschool. End were examined, comparing whose teachers implemented LLLI (n = 25) or business-as-usual (BAU) instruction (n = 24). Hierarchical linear modeling results showed have significant on children's decoding comprehension who had high levels skill preschool, as compared their counterparts BAU condition. Study findings therefore indicate that inter...