Hi Everyone,

I want to know whether anyone on this listserv has any familiarity with measures of emergent literacy skills.  I am conducting a longitudinal study of a play-based intervention in Uganda designed to improve school readiness skills, including emergent literacy skills.  In RCTs of adult therapy, researchers can use the same measures at each follow-up, but in RCTs with children, their changing age poses challenges to the selection of measures at subsequent follow-ups.  In the case of my own study, the children were ages 3-5 at the time of baseline and the first follow-up six months later.  I am planning to conduct a two-year follow-up, so the children are now ages 5-7.  At ages 3-5, I had used the Bracken to assess emergent literacy skills, and it worked quite well with this sample.  I am afraid that if I try using it again, I'll get ceiling effects.  Can anybody recommend an emergent literacy/literacy skills measure for children ages 5-7?  Thanks in advance for your help.  It was nice meeting some of you at SPR in Jerusalem last week.

Geoff

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