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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
Godbey, Rebecca Jane – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Partners in Print, a family literacy program, was brought to the urban elementary school in this study to educate and empower kindergarten and first grade parents to promote literacy development at home. This research aimed to explore the impact of participation in this program after consistent participation by utilizing a one-group pre-test,…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Family Literacy, Partnerships in Education, Kindergarten
Rideout, Victoria – Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, 2014
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center has conducted a national survey of more than 1500 parents of children ages 2-10 to find out how much of children's media time is devoted to educational content, platform by platform, age by age. "Learning at Home: Families' Educational Media Use in America" is the first comprehensive analysis of parents'…
Descriptors: Educational Media, Mass Media Use, Family Involvement, Family Characteristics
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Reese, Leslie; Arauz, Rebeca Mejia; Bazan, Antonio Ray – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2012
This article examines the relationships among the literacy practices engaged in by first-grade children and parents at home and the ways in which these practices are communicated, shaped, and fostered by teachers and administrators in two different sociocultural environments in urban Mexico. The differences observed between the home literacy…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Instruction, Foreign Countries, National Curriculum
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Stephenson, Kathy A.; Parrila, Rauno K.; Georgiou, George K.; Kirby, John R. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2008
We examined the effects of home literacy (shared book reading, teaching activities, and number of books), children's task-focused behavior, and parents' beliefs and expectations about their child's reading and academic ability on kindergarten children's (N = 61) phonological sensitivity and letter knowledge and on Grade 1 word reading. The results…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Reading Skills, Academic Ability, Preschool Education