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Head Start Parents' Perceptions of Family Literacy Activities
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Stacie Summers – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this convergent parallel mixed method research design was to investigate family literacy activities reported by parents of Head Start children. In addition, the study explored the use of Family Literacy Book Bags by involving parents in shared reading and home-based literacy activities. Parents of Head Start children at a center in…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Family Literacy, Federal Programs, Low Income Students
Family Literacy Activities and Parental-Child Interactive Reading with Preschoolers from Asian Immigrant Families in the North Texas Area of the United States
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Suwannakhae, Yaowaluk – ProQuest LLC, 2012
There were two purposes of this descriptive research design. The first purpose of the study was to investigate family literacy activities with preschool-aged children and parental expectations of their children's development and future school success as reported by Asian immigrant families. The second purpose was to observe the interactive reading…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Immigrants, Asians, Preschool Children
Pathfinders: A Life History Study of 10 Academically Successful Latinos from San Antonio
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Castillo, Victor Anthony – ProQuest LLC, 2012
With the study rise of the Hispanic population in the United States over the last 25-years there has been a languished progression of this populations' educational attainment. The purpose of this qualitative study was to tap into the "black-box" of ten academically successful Latino students from San Antonio by capturing the life history…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Hispanic American Students, Self Concept, Educational Attainment