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Joy or Instruction? A PISA 2018-Based Study of the Mediating Mechanisms by Which Preschool Family Reading Activity Influences Reading Literacy during Adolescence
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Deng Gao; Xing-yu Chen – Metacognition and Learning, 2025
There is currently a lack of a more integrated perspective on reading literacy education. In preschool reading activities, it's important to maximize an individual's potential for reading literacy development with limited nurturing energy. Based on self-regulated theory and metacognitive models, this study explored the pathway model of the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
The Interplay between Students' Home Literacy Environment, Reading Attitudes and Comprehension: A Serial Mediation Analysis Using PIRLS 2021-Data
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Renée Claes; Jana Laga; Katrijn Denies; Nele Bleukx; Jonas Dockx; Hilde Van Keer; Koen Aesaert – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Background: Providing a rich home literacy environment (HLE) is considered to contribute to the development of students' reading comprehension. However, less research attention has been given to the underlying mechanisms that influence this relationship, including potential mediating characteristics. The present study aims to assess whether…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Family Environment, Reading Attitudes, Reading Comprehension
Improving Family Literacy Practices
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Harvey, Ann – SAGE Open, 2016
A 10-question Likert-type scale survey was presented to parents of children enrolled in the Imagination Library's (IL) program. IL sends age-appropriate books once a month to children from birth to age 5 so that their parent can read to them. After registering for the program and receiving books, 93 parents answered the survey questions…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Rural Areas, Parents, Preschool Children
The Home Literacy Environment and Preschool Children's Reading Skills and Interest
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Yeo, Lay See; Ong, Winston W.; Ng, Charis M. – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: This study explored the association between the home literacy environment (HLE), conceptualized as comprising parents' reading beliefs and home literacy practices, and preschoolers' reading skills and reading interest. It also identified factors in the HLE that predict emerging reading competence and motivation to read. A total…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Reading Skills, Reading Interests, Family Literacy
Family Influence on Reading.
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Walker, Scott S. – 1995
No one denies that students have many more distractions today than in days gone by. The need for family involvement in a child's reading progress joins a surge in American society for parents to take more responsibility for their children's character and in the condition of their communities. Some hints for parents in establishing family literacy…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Family Attitudes, Family Environment, Family Influence
Parents Reading with Their Children: Effects on Reading Ability.
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Chesney, Mailisha – 1995
An examination of the literature on how parents reading with their children affects children's interest and ability in reading was informative. Especially useful were 3 articles--those of Scarbrorough, Dorbrich, and Hager (1991); Ridout (1992); and Martin (1993). The first article states that not all children follow in their parents' desire for…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Emergent Literacy, Family Literacy, Habit Formation