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    • Lunts. She said, "1 have some money that 1 want you to take to Sister Lunt. 1 don? owe her yet but, while 1 have this money on hand, 1 would like you to take it to her." When Sarah opened the door and L i e held out the handkerchief to her, Sarah...
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    • hun back to camp on the end of the rope. Instead of telling the soldiers to shoot him, this time 1just pulled out my pistol, without saying anything, and dropped the steer for them to take care of They came running up and said, 'Why did you shoot...
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    • this opportunity to send you these few lines again, hoping it will reach you and find you all well as it leaves us at present through the mercy of God." " We received your most welcon~e and loving letter, my dear children, and we were most happy to...
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    • BAND Band Roy L. Halverson, Director Our Band and Orchestra have been outstandingly active this year. They have added spirit and enthusiasm to our student body functions, ball games and assemblies. If it is true that music is the universal language...
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    • Home Literacy Environments and Literacy Achievement Among English Language Learners From Low Socio-Economic Status Families A Thesis submitted to Southern Utah University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of...
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    • iii Table of Contents List of Tables ..................................................................................................................................v List of Figures...
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    • v List of Tables Table 1: Student Participant Selection Based on CRT and UALPA Scores.................................30 Table 2: Home Visit Comparison Chart...
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    • vi List of Figures Figure 1: Language in the Home: Students....................................................................................42 Figure 2: Language in the Home:...
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    • Chapter 1 Introduction The home-literacy environment (HLE) plays a vital role in language and literacy development for all children before they enter kindergarten and throughout the rest of their school years. Studies have shown that when children...
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    • 2 have been completely transformed and are irreversible. The ways in which ELLs from low SES backgrounds interact and associate with the digital era was also addressed. The results of this research will help educators yield a deeper appreciation...
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    • 4 school connection and the HLEs of these students are just some of the reasons for these remarkable academic achievements. Delimitations This study did not collect data from any schools other than Dixie Sun Elementary. It focused on ELLs in the...
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    • 5 reading, writing, and listening as outlined in the Utah Core Curriculum. These tests are an integral component of U-PASS (Utah Performance Assessment System for Students) and the federal No Child Left Behind legislation. Digital literacies:...
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    • 6 Home-literacy environment (HLE): The literacy experiences in the home in which a child participates and observes before formal reading and writing instruction. It also refers to the continued literacy experiences a child is exposed to at...
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    • 7 assessment is to provide educators with a total proficiency score for use in their schools, districts, and state, as mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Students will be assessed in the four language acquisition modalities of...
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    • 9 community and family settings are valued in the development of literacy among students who are not identified with the dominant culture. Factors such as language, culture, ethnicity, and socio-economic status explain patterns of student...
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    • 10 deprived of learning because of their social isolation and lack of interaction, which affected their overall cognitive functioning. As a result, Vygotsky set out to transform education in Russia by creating new pedagogical styles that would...
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    • 11 in their first language (L1); however, this is not always the case. Cooter (2006) describes the American Idol star, Fantasia Barrino, who recently wrote a memoir entitled Life Is Not a Fairy Tale (2005) that tells of her experiences as an...
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    • 17 of how Purcell-Gates (1995) provided reading intervention for Donny in exchange for documentation and careful examination of literacy development through the social and cultural perspectives of a family from the “white underclass, a minority...

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