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Year Awarded: 2006
Project Leaders:
Nell Duke, Education; V. Susan Bennett-Armistead, MSU Child Development Laboratories; Annie Moses, Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education, Program in Learning, Technology, and Culture; Mary Lundeberg, Education; Linda Herbert, Livingston County 4C Council
Project Description:
Given literacy-rich environments and experiences, children develop important literacy knowledge and skills well before entering formal schooling. Child care settings can be powerful sites for developing this knowledge, particularly for children from homes where little reading and writing occurs, and/or where parents do not know how to develop children's emergent literacy skills. However, many child care providers have little knowledge of literacy development and how to promote it. Faculty from two colleges and personnel from the Livingston County office of the Michigan 4 C Association (Community Coordinated Child Care) propose to develop a 10-hour training module focused on emergent literacy and to test its impact on provider knowledge and practices, as well as the literacy development of children in their care, through an experimental study involving 40 child care providers, and 240 children in their care. If proven effective, the module would be made available throughout the Michigan 4 C Association and to other interested organizations and individuals. Publications and presentations describing the module and reporting the research study would be disseminated within the state and through national forums. External funding would be sought for further study of this module and variations on it.
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