Journal article
Effects of coaching on educators’ vocabulary-teaching strategies during shared reading
Abstract
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether an emergent literacy professional development program enhanced educators' use of vocabulary-teaching strategies during shared reading with small groups of pre-schoolers.
METHOD: Thirty-two pre-school educators and small groups of pre-schoolers from their classrooms were randomly assigned to experimental or comparison groups. The 15 educators in the experimental group received four …
Authors
Namasivayam AM; Hipfner-Boucher K; Milburn T; Weitzman E; Greenberg J; Pelletier J; Girolametto L
Journal
International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 346–356
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
July 4, 2015
DOI
10.3109/17549507.2014.979871
ISSN
1754-9507