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Direct linkCompton-Lilly, Catherine – Language Arts, 2009
The research reported in this article invites educators to rethink their assumptions about students and families. Using data from a qualitative, longitudinal teacher-research study, the author presents seven lessons that she has learned from the families of her students and challenges other teachers to seek ways to learn about the families they…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Family Literacy, Longitudinal Studies, Parent Teacher Conferences
Ma, James – Education 3-13, 2008
This article presents a socio-cultural study of parental involvement in reading by examining the reciprocal mediation between a Chinese mother and her daughter in the reading of a dual-language storybook. The findings reveal a child learning in the "interplay of her contexts" that reflects dynamics of collaborative involvement in meaning…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Mothers, Parent Participation, Reading Strategies
DeBruin-Parecki, Andrea, Ed.; Krol-Sinclair, Barbara, Ed. – 2003
This book addresses family literacy as a theoretically sound field of research and practice that can be used to improve literacy worldwide. The book's 14 chapters are divided into four sections. Following the "Introduction" (Andrea DeBruin-Parecki and Barbara Krol-Sinclair), under Section I--Theoretical Perspectives Related to Family…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Programs, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Haney, Michelle; Hill, Jacqueline – Early Child Development and Care, 2004
Research indicates that both home literacy activities and direct instruction of reading skills promote reading development. The current study investigates how parent-led direct teaching activities impact emergent literacy. Preschool children (n = 47) were administered subtests from the Test of Early Reading Ability-3 and the Kaufman Survey of…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Statistical Significance, Reading Skills, Preschool Children
Download full textIowa State Dept. of Education, Des Moines. Div. of Community Colleges. – 1996
This booklet presents a collection of seven practitioner research reports conducted by individuals employed through adult basic education (ABE), Graduate Equivalency Diploma (GED), and English as a second language (ESL) programs and funded by the Iowa State Staff Development Committee. The practitioner research presented in the collection gives…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Attendance Patterns, Community Colleges, Correctional Education
Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, Pittsburgh. – 1992
A project documented and addressed the literacy needs of families of deaf parents with young hearing children (DP/HC). The project combined family literacy training and materials development with exploration of research questions relating to interaction patterns and verbal development. Six half-day literacy training sessions were held for 11 DP/HC…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Communication Skills, Deafness, Family Literacy
