While most children learn to read fairly well, there remain many young Americans whose
futures are imperiled because they do not read well enough to meet the demands of our …

A major challenge to students learning science is the academic language in which science
is written. Academic language is designed to be concise, precise, and authoritative. To …

Science is a way of knowing about the world. At once a process, a product, and an
institution, science enables people to both engage in the construction of new knowledge as …

In fall 1999, the Department of Education's Office of Educational Researchand Improvement
(OERI) asked RAND to examine how OERI might improve thequality and relevance of the …

The assumption that language acquisition is relatively independent of the amount and kind
of language input must be assessed in light of information about the speech actually heard …

First published in 1977, this book draws together various contributions on the area of speech
used by parents with their children. Numerous perspectives on the topic include the …

ABSTRACTS Gaps in reading performance between Anglo and Latino children are
associated with gaps in vocabulary knowledge. An intervention was designed to enhance …

The critical period hypothesis holds that first language acquisition must occur before
cerebral lateralization is complete, at about the age of puberty. One prediction of this …

The speech of two mothers to their infants at several points between three and eighteen
months of age was analysed. Simplicity of the speech, as measured by MLU, was about the …

Drawing upon recent research findings and upon a case study of a child learning to talk and
to read, Catherine Snow outlines the important similarities in the development of both …