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McElvany, Nele; van Steensel, Roel – European Educational Research Journal, 2009
Literacy interventions in the family context have great potential to promote reading development in children. However, the results of meta-analyses indicate that family-based approaches tend not to be as effective as expected. Although the effectiveness of family literacy interventions can be assumed to hinge largely on the quality of their…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation
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van Steensel, Roel – Journal of Research in Reading, 2006
This paper deals with the relation between children's home literacy environments (HLE) and their literacy development in the first phase of primary school. On the basis of a broad conceptualisation of the HLE, we identified three home literacy profiles (rich, child-directed and poor HLE). Firstly, we related these profiles to socio-cultural…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Emergent Literacy, Family Literacy, Family Environment