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Lynch, Jacqueline; Anderson, Jim; Anderson, Ann; Shapiro, Jon – Reading Psychology, 2006
This research examined parents' literacy beliefs and their self-reported behaviors of how they help their children learn to read and to write. There were 35 parents of preschool-age children involved in this study. Parents were interviewed about their beliefs and behaviors using the "Parents' Perceptions of Literacy Learning Interview Schedule"…
Descriptors: Young Children, Emergent Literacy, Parent Attitudes, Beliefs
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Shapiro, Jon; Whitney, Patricia – Reading Psychology, 1997
States that reading educators are becoming concerned with aliteracy and that research is only now focusing on reading habits. Studies 39 avid readers and non-avid readers to examine home and personal factors related to leisure reading habits. Discovers differences for some aspects of reading attitudes, for motivation, and for several home factors.…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Intermediate Grades, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits
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Doiron, Ray; Shapiro, Jon – Reading Psychology, 1988
Compares the story telling of three- and four-year-old children from different home-literacy environments. Finds clear differences by age, and significant differences between four-year-olds from higher and lower home-literacy environments, while differences among three-year-old groups were not statistically significant. (RS)
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Family Environment, Family Influence, Literary Devices
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Shapiro, Jon – Reading Psychology, 1990
Studies the attitudes toward reading as a sex-role appropriate behavior in classrooms using basal reading instruction or the whole language approach. Suggests that the nature of instruction has a significant effect on boys' view of the sex-role appropriateness of reading and writing. (MG)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education, Reading Attitudes