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Developing Early Literacy

RepoRt of the NatioNal eaRly liteRacy paNel

A Scientific Synthesis of Early Literacy Development and Implications for Intervention

Developing Early Literacy

RepoRt of the NatioNal eaRly liteRacy paNel

A Scientific Synthesis of Early Literacy Development and Implications for Intervention

2008

This publication was developed by the National Center for Family Literacy under a grant funded by Inter-agency agreement IAD-01-1701 and IAD-02-1790 between the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institute for Literacy. It was peer reviewed and copy edited under a contract with RAND Corporation and designed under a contract with Graves Fowler Creative. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the policies of the National Institute for Literacy. No official endorsement by the National Institute for Literacy of any product, commodity, or enterprise in this publication is intended or should be inferred.

The National Institute for Literacy, an agency in the Federal government, is authorized to help strengthen literacy across the lifespan. The Institute provides national leadership on literacy issues, including the improvement of reading instruction for children, youth, and adults by dissemination of information on scientifically based research and the application of those findings to instructional practice. Sandra Baxter, Director Lynn Reddy, Deputy Director

The Partnership for Reading, a project administered by the National Institute for Literacy, is a collaborative effort of the National Institute for Literacy, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to make scientifically based reading research available to educators, parents, policy makers, and others with an interest in helping all people learn to read well.

This report was peer reviewed by an independent panel of experts. RAND Corporation managed the peer review process.

The National Institute for Literacy acknowledges editorial support from Rick Eden, Associate Director For Research Quality Assurance and Lisa Bernard, Research Editor of RAND Corporation; proofreading support through EEI and design support from Kathy Foltin of Graves Fowler Creative.

Andrea Grimaldi served as the contracting officer's technical representative and program officer for the writing, editing, design and peer review of this report and B. Denise Hawkins served as the contracting officer's technical representative for the report design, and are staff of the National Institute for Literacy.

For additional copies of this report download PDF or HTML versions at . To order print copies, contact the National Institute for Literacy at ED Pubs, PO Box 1398, Jessup, Maryland 20794-1398. Call 1-800-228-8813 or email edpubs@inet.

Members of the National Early Literacy Panel

Chair:

Timothy Shanahan

Professor of Urban Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago Director, UIC Center for Literacy

Anne Cunningham--Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Director of the Joint Doctoral Program in Special Education at the University of California Berkeley

Kathy C. Escamilla--Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Colorado and affiliated with the BUENO Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Colorado

Janet Fischel--Professor of Pediatrics and Psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Director of Pediatric Medical Evaluation, Director of the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Director of the Stony Brook Reading and Language Laboratory, and Associate Director of the Pediatric Residency Training Program

Susan Landry--Michael Matthew Knight Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Chief of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics and the Director of the Center for Improving the Readiness of Children for Learning and Education (CIRCLE) in the Department of Pediatrics

Christopher J. Lonigan--Professor in the Department of Psychology at Florida State University and Associate Director of the Florida Center for Reading Research

Victoria J. Molfese--Professor and Ashland-Nystrand Chair at the University of Louisville and Director of the University's Early Childhood Research Center

Chris Schatschneider--Professor of Psychology at Florida State University and Associate Director of the Florida Center for Reading Research

Dorothy Strickland--Professor of Reading and Samuel DeWitt Proctor Professor of Education at Rutgers University.

Acknowledgements

The National Early Literacy Panel wishes to express its gratitude to the following individuals for their contributions:

David Dickinson Barbara Wasik Bill Teale Sue Bredekamp

Catherine Snow Doug Powell Elizabeth Sulzby Laura Justice

Lesley Morrow Karen Diamond Fred Morrison Larry Schweinhart

Carolee Howes Kathy Roskos Susan Neuman Barry Zuckerman

The National Institute for Literacy wishes to express its gratitude to the National Early Literacy Panel Members for their dedicated work and commitment to this report, The National Center for Family Literacy for their coordination of the panel and tireless work to identify and synthesize the findings of scientifically based research studies for this report, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for their early guidance in setting the parameters and scope for this report, RAND Corporation for overseeing the peer review process and editing of the final report and the peer review panelists for their thoughtful and constructive comments.

Disclosure

Background

In 1999, the Head Start Bureau entered into a five-year cooperative agreement with the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) to administer the Head Start Family Literacy Project (HSFLP).

In 2001 The National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) entered into an Interagency Agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to support the cooperative agreement between the Head Start Bureau and the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL). Under this agreement, NCFL was tasked with organizing and overseeing the National Early Literacy Panel (NELP).

Beginning in 2002, Timothy Shanahan of the University of Illinois at Chicago began serving as the panel chair of the NELP. In this role Professor Shanahan acted as a facilitator for the panel. Several months later, he also assumed a voluntary advisory board position with NCFL.

In 2006, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on the Advisory Board of the National Institute for Literacy. By this date, the active work of the panel and panel chair in preparing for the writing of the final report was complete. As an advisory board member, Professor Shanahan abides by the rules of Federal Statute U.S.C. ?208 (a), and played no role in the creation and funding of this project or supervision of project staff during his work on the NELP and in his role as an advisory board member.

Authorization

NIFL was authorized to engage in this agreement with HHS by section 2258 of the Reading Excellence Act (REA), Title II, Part C of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, which requires NIFL to disseminate information on scientifically-based reading research.

P.L. 97-35 (the Head Start Statute) authorizes the underlying cooperative agreement between HHS and NCFL.

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