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Frequency of instructional practices in rural prekindergarten classrooms and associations with child language and literacy skills

Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2019
Although publicly-funded prekindergarten (pre-k) programs have been designed to promote children’s school readiness, programs have tended to support early literacy skills to a greater degree than early language skills.
Mary E. Bratsch-Hines, Margaret R. Burchinal, Ellen S Peisner-Feinberg, X. Franco   +3 more
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Effects of Parent Coaching on Filipino Children’s Numeracy, Language, and Literacy Skills

Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Early childhood interventions that target numeracy, language, and literacy skills can help to mitigate negative educational outcomes among young children from low- to middle-income families in developing countries.
K. Dulay, S. Cheung, Philip Reyes, C. McBride   +3 more
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Narrative, Literacy and Other Skills

2019
In recent years, narrative skills have been receiving increasing attention from researchers for their relevance in the development of language, literacy and socio-cognitive abilities. This volume brings together studies focusing on two key issues in the development of children’s narrative skills.
Veneziano, Edy, Nicolopoulou, Ageliki
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Practitioner Research Literacy Skills

Medical Science Educator, 2013
The Model: For their model the authors used the six core competencies: (a) patient care, (b) medical knowledge, (c) practice based learning and improvement, (d) system based practice, (e) interpersonal and communication skills, (f) professionalism, as outlined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and some specific ‘skills
Jörg Pelz, Wolfgang Köhler, Harm Peters   +2 more
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Higher Level Literacy Skills

2000
We have identified the characteristic difficulties in literacy experienced by many dyslexic pupils of secondary school age (11-18 years), once they have mastered the basic skills. Some of the most effective teaching methods, as demonstrated in the research literature, are described.
Clare Elwell, Janet Townend
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Introducing Computer Literacy Skills for Physicians

Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 1992
Computers are integral to medical practice, education, and research. While medical students learn computer skills during their training, many practicing physicians do not have the same computer experience. To familiarize this group with the exciting developments in medical informatics, the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library and Department of Computer ...
B, Collins, A, Linton, J, Merril, K, Pomerantz, S, Winthrop   +4 more
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Building early literacy skills

Early Years Educator, 2014
How do you encourage children as they take their first steps in literacy? Richard Newson considers some effective principles, such as working with parents, being used by an award-winning project.
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Reception class predictors of literacy skills

British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
Background. In the last decade, there has been a growing interest, both in the UK and abroad, in developing early screening tests for dyslexia that can be used with very young children. In addition to measures of literacy achievement, such screening tests typically aim to identify underlying difficulties, such ...
Jennifer, Simpson, John, Everatt
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Teaching information literacy skills: an evaluation

Nurse Education Today, 2000
This paper describes an evaluation of a curriculum-integrated information literacy programme in an undergraduate nursing course. The aim of the programme was to provide students with an awareness of the discipline's literature and the skills to locate and retrieve the literature.
Wallace, Margaret C, Shorten, Allison G, Crookes, Patrick A   +2 more
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Asthma Numeracy Skill and Health Literacy

Journal of Asthma, 2006
To assess understanding of numerical concepts in asthma self-management instructions, a 4-item Asthma Numeracy Questionnaire (ANQ) was developed and read to 73 adults with persistent asthma. Participants completed the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (STOFHLA), 12(16%) answered all 4 numeracy items correctly; 6(8%) answered none ...
Andrea J, Apter, Jing, Cheng, Dylan, Small, Ian M, Bennett, Claire, Albert, Daniel G, Fein, Maureen, George, Simone, Van Horne   +7 more
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