SIG-Early Education and Child Development

Jerry West, University of Maryland - College Park

Exploring the Relationship Between Kindergartners' Buddy Reading and Individual Comprehension of Multimodal Digital Texts - X. Christine Wang, University at Buffalo - SUNY; Tanya M. Christ, Oakland University; Ming Ming Chiu, The Education University of Hong Kong

Contriibution of Teachers' Complex Syntax to Vocabulary Growth - JeanMarie Farrow, Temple University; Barbara Wasik, Temple University; Annemarie H. Hindman, Temple University

Understanding Preschool Children's Reading Engagement and Learning With Interactive eBooks - Ying Xu, University of California - Irvine; Joanna Yau, University of California - Irvine; Stephanie Reich, University of California - Irvine

School-Readiness Profiles and Growth in Reading and Math Achievement - Qianqian Pan, University of Kansas; Kim Trang, The University of Kansas; Hailey Love, University of Kansas; Jonathan Templin, The University of Kansas

The Question Is Just the Beginning: How Head Start Teachers Use Wait Time and Feedback During Book Reading - Annemarie H. Hindman, Temple University; Donald Bradley, Springfield School District; Barbara Wasik, Temple University