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George, Patricia D.; del Prado Hill, Pixita; Reichenberg, Jennifer Sharples; Daniels, Katie – PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice, 2022
Global Literacy Engagement, a collaboration between the School of Education at Buffalo State College and its school and community partners, has grown in new and exciting ways since its inception in 2010. With an overarching mission to promote literacy and global awareness, Global Literacy Engagement has served as a unique platform to bring…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Family Literacy, Reading Aloud to Others, Schools of Education
Agte, Patrick; Bernhardt, Arielle; Field, Erica M.; Pande, Rohini; Rigol, Natalia – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
How do poor entrepreneurs trade off investments in business enterprises versus children's human capital, and how do these choices influence intergenerational socio-economic mobility? To examine this, we exploit experimental variation in household income resulting from a one-time relaxation of household liquidity constraints (Field et al., 2013),…
Descriptors: Low Income, Family Income, Entrepreneurship, Investment
Groenhout, Rachel C. H. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Somalia has a long and rich oral literacy tradition of poetry, proverbs, and songs, while Somalia's print literacy history has been significantly disrupted by colonization and then the Somali Civil War. Many Somalis have fled the country since the start of the civil war in 1991, and an estimated 10,000 Somalis have made a new home in Maine. When…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Reading Programs, Childrens Literature
Fox, Kathy R. – School Community Journal, 2023
School to home communication has often been seen as a one-way path, with homework and other materials serving children and families while teachers were the facilitators. When schools were forced to rapidly switch instruction from face-to-face classrooms to entering kitchens, living rooms, and other spaces to deliver virtual instruction, teachers…
Descriptors: Teachers, Family Literacy, Family School Relationship, Homework
Palacios, Rebecca A. – American Educator, 2023
Family engagement and family literacy are two of the most important or components for building a strong foundation for children's academic success. Family engagement is about spending quality time with children every day by talking, playing, and asking questions, which builds bonds and promotes language development. Family literacy supports…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Family Literacy, Parent Child Relationship, Learner Engagement
Flewitt, Rosie; Clark, Alison – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2020
Most children growing up in contemporary homes in post-industrial countries use digital media as part of everyday literacy activities, such as to connect with distant family and friends, watch their favourite programmes, play games and find information. However, conceptualizations of the Home Literacy Environment (HLE) have not yet adapted to the…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Computer Use, Young Children, Family Environment
Westerveld, Marleen F.; Paynter, Jessica; Brignell, Amanda; Reilly, Sheena – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
This study used data from a prospective community-based sample and compared the code-related emergent literacy skills (phonological awareness and letter knowledge) of 4-year-old children with ASD (n = 36) to their peers without ASD (n = 36), matched for age, gender, socio-economic status, language ability, and nonverbal cognition. We also compared…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Compton-Lilly, Catherine F.; Rogers, Rebecca L.; Lewis Ellison, Tisha – Reading Research Quarterly, 2020
In this meta-ethnography, the authors analyze the metaphors that inhabit highly cited examples of family literacy scholarship. Meta-ethnography is a methodology, as described by Noblit and Hare, in which metaphors are analyzed as linguistic tools; in this article, they are used to compare and synthesize understandings across existing ethnographic…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Family Literacy, Figurative Language, Comparative Analysis
Eliyahu-Levi, Dolly; Ganz-Meishar, Michal – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2023
This article traces the actions and perceptions of preservice teachers who cope with cultural heterogeneity. The study used an interpretative qualitative method, which allowed us to examine the portfolios of 12 participants. Findings indicate that authentic experiences exposed the students to the reality of the pupils, enriched their knowledge,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Culturally Relevant Education, Authentic Learning, Cultural Awareness
Wang, Qianqian; Ma, Minjie; Huang, Yan; Wang, Xichen; Wang, Tingzhao – Journal of Research in Reading, 2023
Background: Reading interest plays an important role in predicting and regulating the literacy development of deaf children, but the family factors influencing their reading interest have not been previously explored. The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of parents' education and home literacy environment (HLE) on reading interest…
Descriptors: Parent Background, Educational Attainment, Correlation, Deafness
Dias-Broens, Aike S.; van Steensel, Roel – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: In this study, we examined the short- and long-term effects of Reading Express, a home-visiting intervention in which volunteers encourage low socio-economic status and ethnic minority parents to engage in interactive shared reading with their child. Outcomes of a quasi-experiment involving 176 children in the Netherlands (mean…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Low Income Groups, Minority Groups, Reading Strategies
Li, Xiangfei; Li, Su – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
An early home literacy environment is essential to children's later reading development. However, few studies have explored the home literacy environment's influence on Chinese reading in preschoolers across a wide age range. The present study mainly investigated the effects of the home literacy environment on Chinese word reading in 3- to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Family Literacy, Emergent Literacy
Ozturk, Gulsah; Ohi, Sarah – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2022
Young children develop understandings about literacy from birth through experiences of print in their home environments. Today, written text is often present in children's homes in both print and "digital" forms. What kind of technologies are young children accessing at home and for what purposes? This paper discusses research findings…
Descriptors: Young Children, Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Family Literacy
Smith, Felicia Cummings; Teater, Tracy – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic caused many sectors of America to rethink the way they navigate life. However, adult learners in family literacy programs across the country demonstrated exceptional resiliency. The National Center for Families Learning (NCFL) focused on supporting essential literacies (including digital), social-emotional well-being, and…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, COVID-19, Pandemics, Adult Learning
Annette Woods – Qualitative Research Journal, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief review of foundational research that has informed how the field of literacy education understands the importance of child-adult interactions for learning language and early literacy, and the importance of this learning for learning literacy later in life. Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Emergent Literacy, Parent Child Relationship, Language Acquisition