with support from grant
Jerome and Dorothy Singer, co-directors of the Yale Family TV Research and Consultation Center in the Department of Psychology, have received a $160,000 grant to develop, test and refine a video-based program for training parents, teachers and home care providers of preschool children from low-income families.
"The Lost Puppy Game" is part of a six-game video series. In this narrative game, preschool children use emergent literacy skills to help a lost puppy find his way home.
Initial testing of the pilot program in Connecticut showed that after only two weeks of playing the game just briefly each day, many of the children learned the meaning of words like "library," "borrow" (as in borrowing books from the library), "author" and "title." The children also learned that in English people read from top to bottom and left to right on a page.
The number of children who knew the meaning of the word "author" increased by nearly 50% after watching the video series. The number of parents who took their children to the library increased by 19%.
The next two-year phase of the project will include children nationwide. The project is a subcontract from The Media Group of Connecticut Inc. based in Weston.
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