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Ruth Breeze; Ana Halbach – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
It has long been known that children who grow up in situations of economic and social disadvantage tend to have more difficulties when they enter school, and that these are often perpetuated, leading to underachievement and disaffection. The role of the family and home environment in stimulating children's language acquisition and pre-literacy…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Best Practices, Family Influence, Family Role
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Compton-Lilly, Catherine; Caloia, Rachel; Quast, Erin; McCann, Kelly – Reading Teacher, 2016
While existing research documents the effectiveness of summer reading programs, little is know about how and to what degree children actually read the books that are sent home or how families engage with these texts. We took this opportunity to dive in and explore what happened when books were sent home to low-income, culturally diverse families.…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Home Study, Reading Habits
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Neumann, Michelle M. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
Family socioeconomic status (SES) and home literacy practices impact upon children's early literacy development. The present study explored where current emergent literacy and home literacy differences lie in Australian preschoolers aged three to five years from lower SES (n = 49) and higher SES (n = 52) homes. Children were assessed on letter…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Family Literacy, Comparative Analysis, Socioeconomic Status
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Saçkes, Mesut; Isitan, Sonnur; Avci, Kerem; Justice, Laura M. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which parental beliefs about children's literacy motivation is associated with their literacy practices at home. A sample of 315 parents of preschool-aged children participated in the study, and completed a newly developed questionnaire pursuant to the aims of this work. Thus, the construct of…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Learning Motivation, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Aspiration
Pratt, Amy Susan – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation portfolio is comprised of three first-authored pieces of writing that investigate the oral language and emergent literacy development of Spanish-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI). Each piece features a unique but complementary aim. The first study investigates group differences on a battery of emergent…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Spanish Speaking, Preschool Children, Language Impairments
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Alston-Abel, Nicole Lynn; Berninger, Virginia W. – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2018
In a 5-year longitudinal study of typical literacy development (Grades 1-5 or 3-7), relationships were examined between (a) parental responses to questionnaires about home literacy activities and ratings of children's self-regulation at home, both completed annually by the same parent, and (b) children's reading and writing achievement assessed…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Longitudinal Studies, Questionnaires, Writing Achievement