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Because of that, on this website I have created an ongoing bibliography, ordered eclectically by topic, of countless resources that have influenced the development of Mother Goose on the Loose. It will be impossible to capture EVERYTHING, but at least this gives a good background.
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, DHHS, Put Reading First: Helping Your Child Learn to Read (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 2001).
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Minkel, Walter. 2002. “It’s Never Too Early.” School Library Journal 48, No. 7 (July) 38-42.
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Public Library Association (PLA) and Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), Every Child Ready to Read @ Your Library (Chicago: American Library Association, 2004).
PLA and ALSC, Every Child Ready to Read: Teaching Parents and Caregivers How to Support Early Literacy Development (Chicago: ALA Editions, 2011).
Schickedanz, Judith A. Much More Than ABCs: The Early Stages of Reading and Writing (Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1999).
Selmi, A.M., R. Gallagher, & E.R. Mora-Flores. 2015. Early Childhood Curriculum for All Learners: Integrating Play and Literacy. Los Angeles: SAGE.
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University of Washington ischool. “Valuable Initiative in Early Learning.” VIEWS2, UW Information School, 2017, views2.ischool.uw.edu/, accessed August 11, 2018. Dr. Eliza Dresang was the initiator and Principal Investigator of the VIEWS2 project.
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Anderson, R. C., & Freebody, P. (1981). Vocabulary knowledge. In J. T. Guthrie (Ed.), Comprehension and Teaching: Research reviews (pp. 77–117). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
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Demir, Ö. E., Rowe, M., Heller, G., Levine, S. C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2015). Developmental Psychology, 51, 161–175.
Hoff, Erika. 2003. “The Specificity of Environmental Influence: socioeconomic Status Affects Early Vocabulary Development Via Maternal Speech.” Child Development 74, no. 5: 1368-1378.
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Hart, Betty and Todd R. Risley, Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children (Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes, 1995). Betty Hart and Todd Risley’s groundbreaking research made the first scientific connection between early language exposure and intellectual development. It also was a pioneer in documenting disparities in ultimate educational achievement levels between children from different economic backgrounds.
Morgan, Paul L., George Farkas, Marianne M. Hillemeier, Carol Scheffner Hammer, and Steve Maczuga, “24-Month-Old Children with Larger Oral Vocabularies Display Greater Academic and Bahavioral Functioning at Kindergarten Entry,” Child Development 86, no. 5 (2015): 1351-1370.
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Blake, Kate. “Learning to Look Across Disciplines: Visual Literacy for Museum Audiences.” Visual Literacy Today. Accessed August 11, 2018. https://visualliteracytoday.org/learning-to-look-across-disciplines-visual-literacy-for-museum-audiences-by-kate-blake/.
Coles, Robert. “How to Look at a Mountain,” interview by Milton Esterow, ARTnews 92, no. 3 (March 1993): 92–99.
Diamant-Cohen, Betsy, and Dorothy Valakos. “Promoting Visual Literacy Using the Mother Goose on the Loose Program.” Public Libraries 46, no. 2 (2007).
Edmonds, Ernest and Linda Candy. “ Creativity, Art Practice, and Knowledge”. Communications of the ACM. (2002): 91-95.
Epstein, A. S. 2001. “Thinking about Art: Encouraging Art Appreciation in Early Childhood Settings.” Young Children 56 (3): 38–43.
Frey, Nancy; Fisher, Douglas. Reading and the Brain: What Early Childhood Educators Need to Know. Early Childhood Education Journal, v38 n2 p103-110 Aug 2010.
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Klanderman, N. Z. (1979). The development of auditory discrimination and performance of pitch, rhythm, and melody in preschool children. (Doctoral dissertation, Northwestern University, 1979). Dissertation Abstracts International, 40, 3177-A.
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Applebee, Arthur N. 1989. The Child’s Concept of Story: Ages Two to Seventeen. Chicago, IL: University Of Chicago.
Emery, D.W. 1996. “Helping Readers Comprehend Stories from the Characters’ Perspectives.” The Reading Teacher 49, 534-541.
Fox, Carol. 1993. At the Very Edge of the Forest: the Influence of Literature on Storytelling by Children. London: Cassell. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/29635985.html.
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Hirsh-Pasek, K., Adamson, L., Bakeman, R., Golinkoff, R.M., Pace, A., Yust, P. & Suma, K. (2015). The contribution of early communication to low-income children’s language success. Psychological Science. 26, 1071-1083.
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