Abstract:The authors explored the etfects of an expanded Language Experience Approach (LEA) on emergent literacy skills of kindergarteners. Forty-four kindergarteners were randomly assigned to either an expanded LEA condition or a traditional LEA condition. At the end of the six-month treatment period, the expanded LEA group performed better than the traditional LEA group on the listening for information subtest (p < .05) of the California Achievement Test (CAT), and on other measures. A treatment-by-sex interaction (p… Show more
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