Sentences with phrase «later vocabulary skill»

Specifically, at age 14 months, children from higher - SES families are gesturing more than their lower - SES peers, and this gesture use is related to later vocabulary skill (Rowe & GoldinMeadow).

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The more advantaged children have advanced vocabulary skills and that correlates to better cognitive abilities later on, she said.

For Spanish - language speakers, this early emphasis on their home language enables them to «expand their vocabulary and build literacy in their first language; study a highly academic curriculum in their first language; successfully transfer Spanish reading and writing skills to English in later grades; acquire high levels of self - esteem by becoming bilingual and playing a supportive role for their English - speaking classmates.»

Now part of the LearningCity ® family of education technology products, nearly a decade later, VocabularySpellingCity has expanded to include a wide variety of study tools for developing strong vocabulary skills and best practices for effective vocabulary instruction.

Research shows that children from poor families start school substantially behind children from more advantaged backgrounds in vocabulary, knowledge of the world, social skills, and pre-academic content such as letter recognition, all of which are strongly predictive of later school success.

Children from low - income households lag behind their peers in language skills from early on, 2,12 and have been shown to develop vocabularies at slower rates than their peers from more economically advantaged households.7 Smaller receptive and productive vocabularies, in turn, predict children's later reading and spelling difficulties in school.8, 13