Charlenes Article #1
Understanding American Preschool
Teachers Teaching Beliefs About Literacy
Instruction
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influences the field related to
your inquiry (ex. Math
teaching/learning
elementary)
Zou, B. (2017). Understanding American Preschool Teachers
Teaching Beliefs About Literacy Instruction. 3rd Annual
Conference on Modern Education and Social Sciences, 413-420.
Shanghai Normal University Tianhua College, Shanghai, China
Scholarly article that presents a research study
A researcher looked into what teachers use to promote literacy
practices in preschool aged children and the importance of
emergent literacy. She also looked at the teachers personal
beliefs and then compared it to their practice within the
classroom. Many teachers expressed that promoting and teaching
literacy skills was extremely important at the preschool age. It
was also evident from the study that teachers who were able to
make a connection with their students found it easier to teach the
literacy skills if the students learned in a fun, engaging way like
using play.
Parent Involvement:
This article influences my topic because I want to try to show
parents the benefits of continuing learning at home, more
specifically continuing to practice literacy at home in a fun
engaging way.
This article delves into the importance of emergent literacy and
has provided strategies that will help parents try to incorporate
theses games, ideas, or activities at home.
Potential relevance to your
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where the source will be
used:
Language and Literacy Development in the
Early Years: Foundational Skills that
Support Emergent Readers
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Summary of essential
information:
This article proved the effectiveness of emergent literacy and the
effectiveness of using play as a strategy to promote early literacy
practices at home.
Data research/Background -
This article will help me gather some literacy games, ideas, and
activities for parents to use and promote literacy at home. It is
also giving me the background knowledge of the importance of
emergent literacy and early literacy development.
Charlenes Article #2
Brown, C, S. (2014). Language and Literacy Development in the
Early Years: Foundational Skills that Support Emergent Readers.
Language and Literacy Spectrum, 24(1), 35-49.
Hunter College, State University of New York
Scholarly article that presents data on strategies to make literacy
engaging for emergent readers.
This articles provides strategies to make literacy engaging for
young children with specific examples listed for all different
learners and how to explain why we read/use literacy skills. It
also talks about how and why these skills are important to
emergent readers and how learning these skills at an early age
will benefit them in middle school so they are not struggling to
keep up with peers who already have the skills they need to be
successful with literacy.
Way in which this source
influences the field related to
your inquiry (ex. Math
teaching/learning
elementary)
This article influences my chosen topic because it gives some
specific strategies that are used to improve a childs literacy,
which relates to my topic of having literacy strategies continued
at home and not only being used in school.

Potential relevance to your This article provided effective strategies to help promote
research topic and study: emergent literacy and also discussed the importance of these
specific strategies for emergent/early readers.

Stage of action research Data research/Background -

where the source will be This article will help me gather some literacy strategies for
used: parents to use and promote at home. It is giving me the
background knowledge of the importance of emergent literacy
and early literacy development.

Charlenes Article #3

What Teachers Can Do to Promote

Preschoolers Vocabulary Development:
Strategies From an Effective Language
and Literacy Professional Development
Coaching Model
Bib. Information (APA Wasik, B. A. (2010). What Teachers Can Do to Promote
Formatting): Preschoolers Vocabulary Development: Strategies From an
Effective Language and Literacy Professional Development
Coaching Model. The Reading Teacher, 63(8), 621-633.

Author(s) Affiliation: International Reading Association.

Type of Resource: (Scholarly Scholarly article that presents strategies for teachers to use to
/Trade/Other) promote/enrich the vocabulary of preschoolers in the classroom.
Summary of essential
information:
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influences the field related to
your inquiry (ex. Math
teaching/learning
elementary)
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where the source will be
used:
Early Childhood Education Students
Emergent Skills in Literacy Scaffolding
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This article provides strategies for teachers to use to enrich a
preschooler's vocabulary while they are engaged in literacy
activities. It describes the process of teachers being coached on
how to effectively implement these strategies. It explains that
having coaching is a positive and that teachers who had
Exceptional Coaching for Early Language and Literacy
(ExCELL) had greater success while using the specific strategies
taught than teachers who did not receive training.
This article influences my field when it comes to teacher
development and parental involvement by showing
the importance of vocabulary acquisition for preschool aged
children.
This article provided effective strategies to enrich a preschoolers
vocabulary while participating in literacy activities. These are
skills to increase literacy in preschool aged children.
Data research/Background -
This article will help me gather some literacy(vocabulary in this
specific case) strategies for parents to use and promote literacy at
home based on the results seen from the coaching of classroom
teachers.. It is giving me the background knowledge of the
importance of emergent literacy and early literacy/vocabulary
development.
Charlenes Article #4
Nickel, J. (2011). Early Childhood Education Students Emergent
Skills in Literacy Scaffolding. Canadian Children, 36(1), 13-19.
Author(s) Affiliation:
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influences the field related to
your inquiry (ex. Math
teaching/learning
elementary)
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Department of Education and Schooling at Mount Royal
University
Scholarly article that presents a research study
A professor observed her students working with preschool aged
children to increase literacy skills by scaffolding the information
she had taught them in class. She then was able to determine what
skills worked well for her students that showed an increase in
literacy skills in the preschoolers and which skills did not work as
well as others. This let me determine strategies to share with
parents when they are working with their children at home to
improve literacy by reading together or having fun pointing out
letter sounds.
Literacy Practices:
This source provided multiple strategies to use in the preschool
classroom to scaffold the learning of literacy. There were
multiple examples of ways the students presented ways to
increase literacy through reading books and asking open
questions that required the children to think of their responses
rather than only responding by saying yes or no.
This article proved the effectiveness of emergent literacy and the
effectiveness of using scaffolding strategies to increase literacy.
These examples were used in the classroom but could also work
at home with a parent.
Data research/Background -
This article will help me gather some literacy games, ideas, and
activities for parents to use and promote literacy at home. It is
also giving me the background knowledge of the importance of
emergent literacy and the importance of knowing what types of
questions parents and teachers should be asking their children
while reading stories together.
 Charlenes Article #5

Meaning-Related and Print-Relates

interactions Between Preschoolers and
Parents During Shard Book Reading and
Their Associations with Emergent Literacy
Skills
Bib. Information (APA Hau, J. and Neuharth-Pritchett, S. (2015). Meaning-Related and
Formatting): Print-Related Interactions Between Preschoolers and Parents
During Shared Book Reading and Their Associations with
Emergent Literacy Skills. Journal of Research in Childhood
Education, 29(4), 528-550.

Author(s) Affiliation: Han - University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan

Neuharth-Pritchett The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

Type of Resource: (Scholarly Scholarly article that presents a research study

/Trade/Other)

Summary of essential
information:
The study worked with parents and their preschoolers to see what
types of strategies parents used to increase literacy at home for
their child/children. The study looked at meaning related
interactions and print related interactions and talked about the
benefit of each. There was also a survey given to parents that
shows which strategies the parents used with their child while
reading stories together then those strategies were talked about in
more detail and included ways to promote each strategy at home.
-This will allow me to incorporate some of the strategies that were
not used by that many parents to try and introduce them the
families I plan on working with.

Way in which this source Parent Involvement/Background Knowledge:

influences the field related
to your inquiry (ex. Math
teaching/learning
elementary)
This article influences my topic because I now know which
strategies are more commonly used at home by parents while
reading together so I can have parents try some lesser known
strategies at home to continue to make learning/reading fun and
enjoyable together.
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Real-World Literacy Activity in Pre-school
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influences the field related to
your inquiry (ex. Math
teaching/learning
elementary)
This article provided strategies used by parents at home to
increase literacy skills and talked about each strategys usage.it
also gave information about how many parents actually used each
strategy listed and the benefit of each strategy whether meaning
related or print related.
Data research/Background -
This article will help me gather some literacy games, ideas, and
activities for parents to use and promote literacy at home. It gave
me examples of strategies used at home already and which
strategies were better known than others.
Charlenes Article #6
Anderson, J., Purcell-Gates, V., Lenters, K. & McTavish, M.
(2012). Real-World Literacy Activity in Preschool. Community
Literacy Journal, 6(2), 75-95.
University of British Columbia
University of Calgary
Scholarly article presenting literacy practices
This article provided multiple real world activities for parents,
teachers, and children to complete together that promote literacy.
They explained in detail how everyday actions like writing notes
or grocery lists promotes literacy in preschoolers and how
children notice these actions done by parents and teachers so it is
important to include them in the process or allowing them to
replicate adults writing and write their own.
Parent Involvement/Teaching practices:
This article influences my topic because it suggests many ways for
parents and teachers to promote literacy for preschoolers in
everyday life. They can do simple things such as notice signs
posted around the community and talk to their children/students
about the meaning of each item found, which in turn in promoting
literacy.
Potential relevance to your
research topic and study:
Stage of action research
where the source will be
used:
Early Literacy Research
Bib. Information (APA
Formatting):
Author(s) Affiliation:
Type of Resource: (Scholarly
/Trade/Other)
Summary of essential
information:
Way in which this source
influences the field related to
your inquiry (ex. Math
teaching/learning
elementary)
This article proved the effectiveness of emergent literacy and the
effectiveness of using everyday tasks to improve the literacy of
preschool aged children.
Data research/Background -
This article will help me gather some literacy games, ideas, and
activities for parent/teachers to use and promote literacy at home
and school. It is also giving me the background knowledge of the
importance of emergent literacy and early literacy development.
Charlenes Article #7
Reutzel, R.D. (2015). Early Literacy Research. Reading Teacher,
69(1), 12-24
Dean of the College of Education at the University of Wyoming,
Laramie, Wyoming.
Scholarly article that reflects on early literacy practices
A professor shared her answers on questions relating to early
literacy practices. She gave insight to the following strategies:
Handwriting, Phonemic Awareness, Alphabet Letter Names and
sounds, Concepts About Print, Writing, and Text Structure. With
these topics, Reutzel provided strategies that work well with
children and provided more than one way to teach a strategy as
not all children learn the same way, especially at the young
preschool age.
Literacy Practices:
This source provided multiple strategies to use in the preschool
classroom to scaffold the learning of literacy skills at home and in
the classroom. There were multiple examples of ways the students
could try to improve their literacy skills that have been used
successfully by many teachers.
Potential relevance to your
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where the source will be
used:
Adults Dual Roles as Student and Teacher
in the Literacy Development of Their
Children
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Summary of essential
information:
This article proved that the strategies I used within my literacy kit
are supported by research and are proven to help improve
literacy in preschool aged children. The examples given were
used in the classroom but many of the strategies could be
implemented at home as well and incorporate the entire family.
Data research/Background -
This article supports my data collection and my data analysis
because it talked about how important letter recognition
(alphabet recognition) is in the steps of learning how to read.
This information backs up my previous research and supports my
reasoning for incorporating certain activities into the literacy kits
that the children used at home and then in the classroom.
Charlenes Article #8
Santos, R.A., & Alfred, M.V. (2011). Adults Dual Roles as
Student and Teacher in the Literacy Development of Their
Children. Adult Basic Education & Literacy Journal, 5(3), 141-
149.
Rose Anna Santos and Mary V. Alfred, Texas A & M University
Scholarly article that presents a research study
The study worked with parents and their children to see what
skills benefit children if practiced at home and how parents with
an ongoing education benefited and helped their children in the
process of learning literacy skills. It talked about the many times
children watch their parents relating to literacy skills, like
watching parents read or noticing print throughout their lives
(grocery store, playground, cereal boxes) and then follow what
their parents do relating to literacy in their play or learning. It
also mentions how daily life affects how often children get to
practice literacy skills with their parents at home and that
teaching should not end in the classroom.
Way in which this source
influences the field related
to your inquiry (ex. Math
teaching/learning
elementary)
Potential relevance to your
research topic and study:
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where the source will be
used:
Parent Involvement/Background Knowledge:
This article influences my topic because it backs up my research
question of what happens when parents of preschool children are
given literacy practices to implement at home. It gives examples of
ways to promote literacy skills at home with different age groups
of children.
This article backs up my research and helps prove that practicing
literacy skills in and outside of the classroom, at home, increases
a childs ability to successfully understand different literacy
strategies by receiving more practice and seeing the influence of
their families working with these strategies outside of the
classroom.
Data research/Background -
This article will help me provide examples of the importance of
families working together to understand literacy skills. It also
gives examples what strategies work with different age groups and
how families can incorporate literacy skills throughout their daily
lives/schedules.