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    • INTERSORORITY COUNCIL MARY COUGHLIN Dean of Women VIRGINIA MORTENSEN President GLENNA ESPLIN Secretary BETH SARGENT MARGARET LEIGH ILA JACKSON The members of the Intersorority Council with the aid of the Dean of Women, Miss Mary Coughlin, have...
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    • INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB GRANT BEDFORD, Advisor FREDDIE BANKS ILA JACKSON ELLWOOD STEPHENS EVANS WOODBURY BRYANT ANDERSON ELMO ENGLESTEAD LOTTIE POULSON MARTHA FITZGERALD MARIE NELSON VIRGINIA MORTENSEN IONE HIGBEE "Would mass production be an...
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    • KITCHEN Homemade Candies Ice Cream • Complete FOUNTAIN SERVICE Cedar City, Utah MARY'S SandwicK Shop & Cafe Breakfast - Lunch Dinner Fountain Service Special attention given to Student Parties and Bridge Luncheons CEDflR CITY /. G. A. Save Every...
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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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    • 8 Chapter 2 Literature Review When children enter school, they bring an array of experiences and background knowledge to the classroom as they try to understand their new world of learning in the academic world away from home. In terms of literacy,...
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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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    • 15 students. Unfortunately, there is a connection between the number of students who qualify for Title I services and “children who are failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet state academic standards” (USDOE, 2010b). Schools that have at...
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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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    • 20 one in which parents may still value literacy and their children’s education; however, they are less educated and engage in fewer literacy activities in the home. Students from literacy-oriented communities have proven to be more prepared for...
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    • 26 One of the co-authors of Treasures is Dr. Jana Echevarria, a professor of educational psychology who specializes in bilingual education and is an expert in teaching ELLs. Echevarria (2005) stated, “In order to tailor instruction appropriately,...
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    • 30 English language proficiency and literacy skills, and were based on a 5-point scale: pre-emergent = 1, emergent = 2, intermediate = 3, advanced = 4, and fluent = 5. Table 1 Student Participant Selection Based on CRT and UALPA Scores CRT...
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    • 31 Instrumentation Questionnaires, language arts scores from end-of-level CRTs, UALPA scores, free and reduced lunch data (Title I), and ethnographic case studies were used to examine the connections between home-literacy environments and literacy...
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    • 32 perspective about the HLEs of ELLs from low-SES families. The instruments used to collect data for this study are located in Appendices A through D. The tasks that were completed in sequential order to accomplish the purpose of the...
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    • 40 and a mix of English and Spanish to their parents. Alma’s mom recognizes the value of acquiring two languages and has learned English through her children. She has also learned English through her job and finds it an asset to speak English...
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    • 45 Quantitative Data: Language and Literacy in the School All of the high ELLs preferred to speak only English with their peers at school. More than half of low ELLs preferred to speak both English and Spanish (see Table 6). The majority of low...
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    • 46 column 2, the averages of parents visiting the public library was measured on a 4-point scale: never = 1, once per year = 2, once per month = 3, once per week = 4. Parents of high ELLs go to the family center more often and are 69% more likely...
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    • 47 ELL parents. Table 9 presents averages of ELL parents’ attitudes toward literacy. Both columns 1 and 2 were measured on a 4-point scale: do not like it at all = 1, it is okay = 2, I like it = 3, and I love it = 4. In general, both sets of...
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    • 51 for ELLs from low-SES backgrounds to succeed. There is a group of low-SES ELLs who have managed to break through these barriers between home and school and have excelled academically. The home visits conducted in this research have revealed the...
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    • 53 English classes. Parents with low-literate children spoke only their native Spanish during the home visit interview and never mentioned that they were learning English. All parents interviewed for the home visits were either from Mexico or...

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