Preparing Pre-schoolers for Reading and Mathematics: Creating a Home Environment for Preschool Learning | Chapter 11 | Current Research in Education and Social Studies Vol. 4

 The association of building reading and arithmetic language skills superior to entry into kindergarten can definitely impact children’s ability to explain in speech representations in both districts. Four families volunteered to take part in this field- based study to learn by virtue of what to integrate reading and arithmetic in parent and child education activities. Four parents and their kindergarten-aged children together accompanied training sessions to learn and practice the exercise of a home environment supportive of two together reading and mathematics. Each person completed questionnaires about implementation of the four preparation sessions with their adolescent. Parent responses were overwhelmingly definite regarding the suggested attitudes for creating a pro-lesson/mathematics home environment. Parents stated that the reading and mathematics home demand activities gave minors learning opportunities from joining early mathematics skills and lesson skills and they also well-informed new vocabulary. Home learning ventures also helped juveniles learn effortful control abilities when reading and talking about arithmetic storybooks. There was also rapport construction through family conversations that were from parents’ use of instructional ventures.

Author(s) Details:

Amber J. Godwin,
Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA.

William H. Rupley,
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.

Robert M. Capraro,
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.

Mary Margaret Capraro,
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.

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How Gestures Pave the Way for Lexical Development: Advanced Study | Chapter 3 | Arts and Social Studies Research Vol. 2

In development, children often use gestures to communicate before they use words. The question is whether these gestures merely precede language development or are fundamentally tied to it. I examined four children making the transition from single words to two-word combinations and found that gesture had a tight relation to the children’s lexical and syntactic development. First, a great many of the lexical items that each child produced initially in gesture later moved to that child’s verbal lexicon. Second, children who were first to produce gesture-plus-word combinations conveying two elements in a proposition were also first to produce two-word combinations. Changes in gesture also predict changes in language, suggesting that early gesture may facilitate future developments in language.

Author(s) Details

Amir Yousef Farahmandi
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

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