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Purcell-Gates, Victoria; And Others – 1994
A descriptive study examined the relationships between what young children learned about written language in the home and their parents' levels of literacy ability and their uses of print in their lives. Twenty-four children, aged 4-6, in 20 families of low socioeconomic status were observed during their waking hours in their homes and communities…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Children, Early Reading
Taylor, Denny – 1983
Focusing on family interaction, this book discusses a study designed to develop systematic ways of looking at reading and writing as activities that have consequences in and are affected by family life. Topics of the seven chapters are as follows: the six families involved in the research, conservation and change in the transmission of family…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Family Attitudes, Family Environment