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Language and Literacy in African American Children |
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Julie Washington - University of Wisconsin-Madison
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| SRCLD Year: |
2008 |
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Invited Speaker |
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The “reading gap” between minority children and their majority peers is well-documented. This gap is apparently evident from the time that young minority children enter school and has been called intractable as there has been little progress toward closure over the past approximately 40 years. Among African American children in particular there has been concern that overall academic progress has been significantly impacted by difficulty with reading skill development. With the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, addressing language skills in very young, high risk children has been advocated as an important strategy for closing the reading gap. The focus of this talk will be the early language and emergent literacy skills of low income, African American preschoolers. |
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