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Peer reviewedGrimmett, Sadie A.; McCoy, Mae – Reading Teacher, 1980
Reports that techniques that enhanced the quality and quantity of parents' communication with the school were found to improve children's short-term reading performance. (Author/FL)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Parent Role, Parent School Relationship, Primary Education
Peer reviewedRaim, Joan – Reading Teacher, 1980
Reports on a reading program that showed parents of underachieving inner-city primary school children how to help their children improve their reading performance. Concludes that the parents not only helped their children but also improved their own reading ability. (FL)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Disadvantaged Youth, Inner City, Parent Participation
Peer reviewedMcNaughton, Stuart; And Others – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1992
Describes a program that sends books home for parents to read to children in New Zealand. Reports on a study of classroom teachers and parents in 19 primary schools. Finds that, nearly all parents report participating, but there lacked a systematic communication between parents and teachers about instructional practices. (CFR)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Influence, Parent Role, Parent School Relationship
Peer reviewedGoldenberg, Claude N. – American Educational Research Journal, 1989
Three case studies in southern California explore the effects of parental involvement on a child's reading achievement through the parent's influence over reading group placement. Two Hispanic first-graders improved substantially when their parents took actions explicitly related to reading group placement; a third remained in a low reading group.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
PDF pending restorationWagner, Patricia A. – 1997
A project was designed to increase reading skills of a target group of kindergarten through second-grade students in a primary continuous progress (CP) house in central Florida. The original target group included 15 kindergarten students, 34 first graders, and 54 second graders. Strategies included 4 parent language arts inservices, developing…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Language Arts, Learning Activities, Parent Child Relationship
Download full textMeyer, Linda A.; And Others – 1990
A study presents descriptive and correlational results from questionnaires and tests administered to approximately 650 children in two cohorts, who, with their parents, are participating in a longitudinal study of reading comprehension development. Results from kindergarten and first-grade students showed low but positive correlations for parents'…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Family Environment, Grade 1, Kindergarten
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Bloomington, IN. – 1988
A selection from the many citations of material in the ERIC/RCS Reprint Bibliography entitled "Helping Parents Understand the Stages of Their Child's Reading Development," this FAST (Focused Access to Selected Topics) annotated bibliography can serve as a guide and beginning point for parents who want to become better informed about any…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Bibliographies, Elementary Education
Montebello Unified School District, CA. – 1985
Noting that some elementary school children may have difficulty learning to read using basal readers, this paper describes the successful implementation of the Big Books for Beginning Readers reading program in a California elementary school. The first section of the paper discusses the problems students were having with reading, including a lack…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Books
