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| CFDA Number: | 84.359 - Early Reading First |
| Program Goal: To support local efforts to enhance the early language, literacy, and prereading development of preschool-aged children through strategies and professional development based on scientifically based reading research. |
| Objective 1 of 1: Preschool-aged children will attain the necessary early language, cognitive and prereading skills to enter kindergarten prepared for continued learning, including the age appropriate development of oral language and alphabet knowledge. |
| Indicator 1.1 of 3: Language: The percentage of children who achieve significant gains in the development of receptive language. |
Source: Early Reading First Program Performance Reports. Frequency: Annually. Next Data Available: March 2006 Data Validated By: On-Site Monitoring By ED. Limitations: Early Reading First grantees will be encouraged to use the PALS Pre-K Upper Case Alphabet Knowledge subtask. Explanation: The FY 2004 target was to establish a baseline. Early Reading First preschool children will take a Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-III pretest, and a posttest after the year of Early Reading First intervention. Posttest scores of ERF preschool children will be compared to the national norms provided by the test publisher. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Third Edition (PPVT) nationally normed tests which has been validated internally and correlated with other measures of cognitive development. |
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| Indicator 1.2 of 3: Alphabet Knowledge: The average number of letters that preschool-aged children in ERF programs are able to identify as measured by the Upper Case Alphabet Knowledge subtask on the PALS-Pre K assessment. |
Source: Early Reading First Program Performance Report. Frequency: Annually. Next Data Available: March 2006 Data Validated By: On-Site Monitoring By ED. Limitations: Not all Early Reading First grantees use the PALS Pre-K Upper Case Alphabet Knowledge subtask to measure alphabet knowledge. Data collected represent the sample of grantees who use the PALS Pre-K Upper Case Alphabet Knowledge subtask. Improvements: Early Reading First grantees will be encouraged to use the PALS Pre-K Upper Case Alphabet Knowledge subtask as the measure of alphabet knowledge. Explanation: The FY 2004 target was to establish a baseline. The PALS Pre-K Upper Case Alphabet Knowledge subtask is a measure of alphabet knowledge that will be administered to ERF preschool children with scores reported in the ERF Performance Report. It has been demonstrated to have a strong positive correlation with the Woodcock-Johnson Letter-Word Identification test. |
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| Indicator 1.3 of 3: Language: The percent of children who achieve significant gains in the development of receptive language. |
Source: Early Reading First Program Performance Reports Frequency: Annually. Next Data Available: March 2007 Data Validated By: On-Site Monitoring By ED. Explanation: The FY 2006 target is to establish a baseline for this new measure. The FY 2007 target is baseline plus 1 percent. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Third Edition (PPVT) is a nationally normed test which has been validated internally and correlated with other measures of cognitive development. |
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