In this randomized controlled trial, our team examines the implementation and effectiveness of one teacher professional learning program, Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS).

This multiyear, multisite research project consists of two randomized controlled trials to understand how and when to best teach phonemic awareness to prekindergartner and kindergartner children.

PROJECT SUMMARYSTEPS-2 is a longitudinal study designed to examine the linguistic characteristics of Speech-Language Pathologists’ (SLP) child-directed talk during school-based therapy sessions and the contributions of such talk to the [...]

Students cannot benefit from the resources and supports schools provide if those students do not show up. And in far too many schools, children are regularly missing class. Chronic absenteeism [...]

LIME is a 12-week at-home adult-child learning program designed to improve children’s early development and skills.

In this multiple methods, community-engaged project, we leverage advancements in technology to develop an innovative approach to accelerate testing and translation of generalizable evidence-based practices (EBPs) in education. This pilot test will look at alphabet learning.

How are teachers displaying items with writing on them — the physical literacy environment, an important factor shaping children’s emergent literacy skills — when students of different ages share the same preschool classroom? That’s what Crane researchers sought to find out.

Crane Center researchers are investigating how media use, both interactive (apps and games) and noninteractive (television and video), can affect young children’s language development.

Nonspeaking Readers is a study on the effects of two commercially available reading curricula designed for students with severe disabilities.

The ED3 Project aims to better understand how to provide intervention for children that need help learning new vocabulary.

ABOUT THE PROJECTLongitudinal Peer Social Networks and Early Language Development: Transforming Understanding of Critical Features of Young Children’s Classroom Experiences. LYLE was a multi-year study that sought to understand how [...]

ABOUT THIS PROJECTThe goal of Promoting Early Engagement, Relationships, and Socialization (PEERS) was to create a systematic guide to support teachers in organizing groupings of children during play time to [...]