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  Title: Enhancing Teaching Practices to Improve Language and Literacy Skills for Latino Dual-Language Learners

URL: http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~snapshots/FPG-Snapshot-62.pdf

Language: English
Author and Contributors:
Publisher: Frank Potter Graham Child Development Institute at UNC at Chapel Hill (Nov 2010)
Review Level: Informal review
Primary Content Area: Early Childhood
Content Type: General Information ; Research
Audience: Professionals, Educators & Program Staff
Categories:
  • Early Childhood: Children With Special Needs: Research and Statistics
  • Early Childhood: Literacy and Language: Early Literacy Skill-building
  • Early Childhood: Literacy and Language: Enhancing Language Skills
Resource Type: Not an extension nor a land-grant developed resource
Keywords: teaching practices, language and literacy, LLL, dual language learners, Latino language learnerslanguage and literacy learners
Description: This news brief discusses teaching practices to improve language and literacy skills for latino dual-language learners. The Nuestros Niños Early Language and Literacy Project at FPG developed and tested an intervention to improve language and literacy teaching practices for young DLLs. The team developed a professional development intervention based on the best available research on effective teaching practices that promote language and literacy skills in pre-k children, and especially those who are DLLs.
Media Type: PDF - Portable Document Format
Resource Listed: November 8, 2011
Resource Last Updated: November 8, 2011




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