Webliography*

Read about the Language and Literacy Program of Study at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Find out more about the the U.S. Department of Education's Reading Summit.

Research findings from the various Projects in Language are often presented at the meetings of: 

  • AERA - American Educational Research Association

  • NAEYC - The National Association for the Education of Young Children
  • SRCD - Society for Research in Children Development
  • NABE - National Association for Bilingual Education

Turning research into practice:

  • Project EASE (Early Access to Success in Education) is a kindergarten intervention that uses a model of parent involvement to foster early language and literacy skills. Gail Jordan based the intervention design on the theoretical framework and findings from the Home-School Study.
  • The Collaborative Language and Literacy Instruction Project (CLLIP), founded by Daniel Pallante of the Ohio Educational Development Center, is an extensive teacher training program grounded in theoretical and empirical work that emphasizes the primacy of language development as a critical foundation of early literacy and school success.

Half the families participating in the Home-School Study of Language and Literacy Development also participated in Head Start.  You can also check out the 1999 update of Annotated Bibliography of Longitudinal Research on Infant and Toddler Interventions.

David Dickinson, Ph.D., Co-Principal Investigator of the Home-School Study from the preschool to middle-school years, carries out his work at the Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC).

Listen to Catherine Snow and others being interviewed about recommended strategies for teaching non-native speakers how to learn to read in English.  This segment was presented on 6/3/99 on NPR's All Things Considered.

Eric Carle's book, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" has been an importart part of the literacy activities conducted with children in the Home-School Study.

When we're not busy "working" on our language studies we take time out for a little grammar humor.

For something a little different with your morning coffee, check out Headline Haikus: All Your News in Seventeen Syllables.

*"A list of electronic documents on a particular topic." Oxford English Dictionary, 2001.