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Capotosto, Lauren; Kim, James S.; Burkhauser, Mary A.; Oh Park, Soojin; Mulimbi, Bethany; Donaldson, Maleka; Kingston, Helen Chen – AERA Open, 2017
This qualitative study investigated the ways in which 84 parents from predominantly low-income communities described supporting their third graders' reading skills, motivation, and habits. Thematic analysis of open-ended parent interviews indicated that parents actively and deliberately scaffolded their children's progress toward developing…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Grade 3, Reading Skills, Emergent Literacy
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Dowd, Amy Jo; Pisani, Lauren – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
Children's reading skill development is influenced by availability of reading materials, reading habits and opportunity to read. Save the Children's Literacy Boost data have replicated this finding across numerous developing contexts. Meanwhile international large-scale reading assessments do not capture detail on current home literacy. The…
Descriptors: International Programs, Measurement, Reading Tests, Literacy