Browsing by Author "Snow, Catherine"
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Assessing Reading Comprehension in Bilinguals
August, Diane; Francis, David J.; Hsu, Han‐Ya Annie; Snow, Catherine Elizabeth (University of Chicago Press, 2006)A new measure of reading comprehension, the Diagnostic Assessment of Reading Comprehension (DARC), designed to reflect central comprehension processes while minimizing decoding and language demands, was pilot tested. We ... -
Assessment in Early Literacy Research
Snow, Catherine Elizabeth; Oh, Soojin (Guilford Press, 2011)Much of what we know about children’s language and literacy development derives from efforts to assess those skills. In fact, language and literacy development might be taken as a case study in the history of assessment—a ... -
The Challenge of Academic Language
Snow, Catherine Elizabeth; Uccelli, Paola (Cambridge University Press, 2009) -
Communicative Intents Expressed by Parents in Interaction with Young Children.
Pan, Barbara; Imbens-Bailey, Alison; Winner, Kendra; Snow, Catherine Elizabeth (1996)Although much attention has been devoted to lexical, grammatical, and semantic aspects of child-directed speech, less is known about its pragmatics. This paper describes a longitudinal study of the communicative intents ... -
Dyslexia as Disability
Threlkeld, Aubry D. (2015-05-18)These three qualitative studies describe and analyze how and when young dyslexic people manage disability labels in talk. The theoretical framework informing this study includes post-structuralist approaches to analyzing ... -
Early literacy development and instruction: An overview
Snow, Catherine Elizabeth (Routledge, 2017)The goal of this chapter is to give an overview of what we know about literacy development in children up to age eight, as well as to introduce some topics for which more research is needed. We know that good readers have ... -
Evaluating the impact of different early literacy interventions on low-income Costa Rican kindergarteners
San Francisco, Andrea Rolla; Arias, Melissa; Villers, Renata; Snow, Catherine Elizabeth (Elsevier BV, 2006)Grade retention has been the de facto policy for children with academic difficulties in many Latin American countries [Schiefelbein, E., & Wolff, L. (1992). Repetition and inadequate achievement in Latin America’s primary ... -
Experimental Effects of Word Generation on Vocabulary, Academic Language, and Perspective Taking in High Poverty Middle Schools
Jones, Stephanie M.; Kim, James Sangil; LaRusso, Maria; Kim, Ha Yeon; Selman, Robert Louis; Uccelli, Paola; Barnes, Sophie Pauline; Donovan, Suzanne; Snow, Catherine Elizabeth (Taylor & Francis, 2016)Time to Act, a 2009 report of the Carnegie Corporation’s Council on Advancing Adolescent Literacy, concludes that U.S. students are ill-prepared for the literacy challenges of 21st century higher education, employment, and ... -
The Interactional Origins of Foreigner Talk: Municipal Employees and Foreign Workers
Snow, Catherine Elizabeth; Eeden, Roos; Muysken, Pieter (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 1981) -
La metodología RETAMHE y el proyecto CHILDES : breviario para la codificación y análisis del lenguaje infantil
Díez Itza, Eliseo; Snow, Catherine Elizabeth; MacWhinney, Brian (Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos del Principado de Asturias, 1999)En este artículo se investigan algunas cuestiones metodológicas relativas al estudio del lenguaje infantil y se presenta la instrumentación y el software desarrollados en el proyecto CHILDES (Sistema de Intercambio de Datos ... -
Literacy Challenges for the Twenty-First Century: Introducing the Issue
Murnane, Richard J.; Sawhill, Isabel; Snow, Catherine Elizabeth (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)Advanced literacy is a prerequisite to adult success in the twenty-first century, By advanced literacy we do not mean simply the ability to decode words or read a text, as necessary as these elementary skills are, Instead ... -
Maternal Correlates of Growth in Toddler Vocabulary Production in Low-Income Families
Pan, Barbara Alexander; Rowe, Meredith Lee; Singer, Judith D.; Snow, Catherine Elizabeth (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)This study investigated predictors of growth in toddlers’ vocabulary production between the ages of 1 and 3 years by analyzing mother – child communication in 108 low-income families. Individual growth modeling was used ... -
A Matter of Perspective: An Exploratory Study of the Relationship Between the Early Math Skills and Social Competence of Children From Low-Income Families
Mackintosh, Bonnie B. (2017-05-05)The U.S. is calling for expansion of preschool to help close the well-documented income-based achievement gap. Children from low-income families often enter kindergarten academically behind their higher income peers and ... -
Professional Development for Reading Achievement: Results from the Collaborative Language and Literacy Instruction Project (CLLIP)
Porche, Michelle V.; Pallante, Daniel H.; Snow, Catherine Elizabeth (University of Chicago Press, 2012)The Collaborative Language and Literacy Instruction Project (CLLIP) is a model of professional development designed to help teachers incorporate research-based practices of literacy instruction, support mastery, and sustained ... -
Promoting Argumentation Skills in Urban Middle Schools: Studies of Teachers and Students Using a Debate-Based Social Studies Curriculum
Duhaylongsod, Leslie J. (2016-05-12)Argumentation skills are essential to individuals’ career prospects in future economies (National Research Council, 2008) and to the success of our democracy. Unfortunately, these skills are often challenging to teach, and ... -
Reading and Language in the Early Grades
Snow, Catherine Elizabeth; Matthews, Timothy Joseph (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)How does literacy develop in children’s early years, and what programs or practices promote adequate literacy for all children? These are the questions Catherine Snow and Timothy Matthews tackle in this article. Fundamental ... -
A Research Agenda for Educational Linguistics
Uccelli, Paola; Snow, Catherine Elizabeth (Wiley Blackwell, 2008) -
Teen Culture, Technology and Literacy Instruction: Urban Adolescent Students’ Perspectives
Li, Jia; Snow, Catherine Elizabeth; White, Claire (University of Alberta, 2015)Modern teens have pervasively integrated new technologies into their lives, and technology has become an important component of teen popular culture. Educators have pointed out the promise of exploiting technology to enhance ... -
What Counts as Literacy in Early Childhood?
Snow, Catherine Elizabeth (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006)Issues of literacy development are a major source of worry to American educators. Worries about whether U.S. children read well enough emerge every time results of an international comparison are published. Many of the ...