A podcast about child development, birth-to-five, where we explore what really matters, and what it really means to be kindergarten ready.
It's a podcast devoted to understanding and nurturing child development, as guided by developmental science, theory, and research.
Hosted by Dr. Gene Ouellette, Director of the Language, Literacy, Learning Lab at Mount Allison University, Professor of (developmental and educational) psychology, Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, researcher, author, former Speech Language Pathologist....... (and father, husband, soccer coach, and lover of weinerdogs too!).
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email: languageliteracylearninglab@gmail.com
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A podcast about child development, birth-to-five, where we explore what really matters, and what it really means to be kindergarten ready.
It's a podcast devoted to understanding and nurturing child development, as guided by developmental science, theory, and research.
Hosted by Dr. Gene Ouellette, Director of the Language, Literacy, Learning Lab at Mount Allison University, Professor of (developmental and educational) psychology, Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, researcher, author, former Speech Language Pathologist....... (and father, husband, soccer coach, and lover of weinerdogs too!).
www.kindergartenreadywhatreallymatters.com
email: languageliteracylearninglab@gmail.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode of Kindergarten Ready: What Really Matters (#11!) we shift gears once again and do a deep-dive into research methods for studying just what shared (storybook) reading does to a child’s developing oral language and emergent literacy.
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References this week all come from the lab of Monique Sénéchal at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Sénéchal, M., & LeFevre, J. (2002). Parental involvement in the development of children’s reading skill: A 5-year longitudinal study. Child Development, 73, 445-460.
Sénéchal, M., LeFevre, J.-A., Thomas, E., & Daley, K. (1998). Differential effects of home literacy experiences on the development of oral and written language. Reading Research Quarterly, 32, 96-116.
Sénéchal, M. (1997). The differential effect of storybook reading on preschooler’s expressive and receptive vocabulary acquisition. Journal of Child Language, 24, 123-138.
Sénéchal, M., & Cornell, E.H. (1993). Vocabulary acquisition through shared reading experiences. Reading Research Quarterly, 28, 360-374.
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