Children’s Behavior During Group Storytime in Head Start Pre-Kindergarten

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  • March 20, 2019
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  • Livengood, Megan C.
    • Affiliation: School of Education
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  • The study examined children's participation, attention, and body movement during group storytime in Head Start pre-kindergarten classrooms. Observers recorded frequencies of participation, looking away, and body movement. Teachers completed questionnaires that included measures of temperament, teacher-child relationship, and literacy skills. A total of sixteen children from four classrooms were observed in storytime at least two different times throughout the semester. Results described children who participate most often in storytime as being extroverted and able to control their attention during activities. Previous studies have shown that children's participation in storytime could positively influence their acquisition of vocabulary and other literacy skills (Sénéchal, Thomas, & Monker, 1995). Teachers in this sample rated nearly all children very highly on the literacy skills measure; no significant correlations were found between the observed variables and scores on the literacy skills measure.
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