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ERIC Number: ED407080
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1995
Pages: 28
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Parents as Early Partners in the Literacy Process.
Powell, Jim
This paper presents national survey results on the role of parents in the emerging literacy of preschool children, and outlines the Strengths Model for Learning in young children. According to data from the 1993 National Household Education Survey (NHES), the percentage of children displaying signs of emerging literacy and small motor skills increased with age within the 3- to 5-year-old population. More girls than boys demonstrated each of the literacy skills (identifying primary colors, recognizing letters, counting to 20, pretending to or reading stories, and writing own name). Hispanic and black students showed fewer signs of emerging literacy, although these deficits were wholly accounted for by related risk factors such as poverty and low maternal education. The strengths model of learning focuses on a family support plan to encourage emergent literacy skills in preschool children through choice and competent decision-making, follow through on choices, knowledge of curricular and life-long opportunities, reflection and self-evaluation, self-attribution, and acceptance of responsibility for choices and actions. An individualized family service plan protocol is included. (MDM)
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: National Household Education Survey
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