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Children at risk for early academic problems: the role of learning-related social skills
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This paper examined the association of work-related skills to academic outcomes at the beginning of kindergarten and at the end of second grade as well as characteristics of children with low work related skills.About:
This article is published in Early Childhood Research Quarterly.The article was published on 2000-09-01. It has received 809 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Life skills & Academic achievement.read more
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School Readiness and Later Achievement
Greg J. Duncan,Chantelle J. Dowsett,Amy Claessens,Katherine Magnuson,Aletha C. Huston,Pamela Kato Klebanov,Linda S. Pagani,Leon Feinstein,Mimi Engel,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,Holly R. Sexton,Kathryn Duckworth,Crista Japel +12 more
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of the results shows that early math skills have the greatest predictive power, followed by reading and then attention skills, while measures of socioemotional behaviors were generally insignificant predictors of later academic performance.
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Preschool Program Improves Cognitive Control
TL;DR: Cognitive control skills important for success in school and life are amenable to improvement in at-risk preschoolers without costly interventions.
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Links between behavioral regulation and preschoolers' literacy, vocabulary, and math skills.
Megan M. McClelland,Claire Cameron,Carol McDonald Connor,Carrie L. Farris,Abigail M. Jewkes,Frederick J. Morrison +5 more
TL;DR: Predictive relations between preschoolers' behavioral regulation and emergent literacy, vocabulary, and math skills and Hierarchical linear modeling was utilized because children were nested in 54 classrooms at 2 geographical sites revealed that behavioral regulation significantly and positively predicted fall and spring emergent Literacy and vocabulary skills.
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A structured observation of behavioral self-regulation and its contribution to kindergarten outcomes.
TL;DR: Evidence for domain specificity emerged, in which gains in behavioral regulation predicted gains in mathematics but not in language and literacy over the kindergarten year (p < .01) after site, child gender, and other background variables were controlled.
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The impact of kindergarten learning-related skills on academic trajectories at the end of elementary school
TL;DR: This article investigated the relation of kindergarten learning-related skills to reading and math trajectories in 538 children between kindergarten and sixth grade, and examined how children with poor learning related skills fared throughout elementary school on reading and Math.
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Preventing reading difficulties in young children
TL;DR: This chapter discusses strategies for helping children with Reading Difficulties in Grades 1 to 3, as well as recommendations for practice and research.
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Teachers’ judgments of problems in the transition to kindergarten
TL;DR: The authors examined teachers' judgments of the prevalence and types of problems children present upon entering kindergarten and found that up to 46% of teachers reported that half their class or more had specific problems in any of a number of areas in kindergarten transition.
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