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 This has lead to researchers calling for a renewed focus on building background knowledge and focusing on academic language acquisition (Nueman, 2006 Tabors, Roach, & Snow, 2001).
+Recent critiques have called into question some of the methodology around the 4 million word gap and showing bias in terms of "less educated" or not showing "warm environments" (Britto & Brooks-Gunn, 2001; Hart & Risley, 1995; Hoff-Ginsberg, 1991). We know that children who have parents with a high school degree or less do face an "opportunity gap" to often be in social situations where they will be in proximity of complex language. We know that poverty means parents may not be able to provide the structured literacy activities favored by academic discipline.
+Research has suggested that the best tools require partnerships with families and training them on literacy techniques. Fine & Henry, 1989. During Covid for example we set up a remote preschool based on per-configured tablets. Instead of having student teachers run lesson for the children they taught the parents how to use the applications to have meaningful literacy interactions with their students. This required not just bilingual students but also students who had a shared cultural understanding of how the learning process was viewed.
+Studies that talk about "word gaps" and "less educated": people often identify literacy instruction as more directive, in contrast to parents with richer more educated parents. People who encourage the sharing of a child's perspective. Our anecdotal work suggests these ontological views of learning are more culturally rather than economically based.
+Other studies have shown that sending daily or frequent text messages about literacy practices to parents also helps.
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