ERIC Number: EJ1195535
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Dec
Pages: 11
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The Contributions of Informal Home Literacy Activities to Specific Higher-Level Comprehension Processes
Hannon, Brenda Ann Marie
Journal of Education and Training Studies, v6 n12 p184-194 Dec 2018
This study shows that home literacy activities contribute to kindergarten children's higher-level comprehension processes, namely knowledge integration and knowledge access. Kindergarten children completed measures assessing literacy and language skills and then their performances on these measures were correlated with home literacy activities, which were assessed via a parental questionnaire. Consistent with previous research, the results revealed that informal home literacy activities were positively related to language comprehension and vocabulary but not to letter-word decoding and phonemic decoding skills. The results also revealed that home literacy activities were positively related to knowledge integration and knowledge access, two strong predictors of language and reading comprehension. Finally, the present results suggest that the contributions that home literacy activities make to language comprehension are the same contributions that home literacy activities make to higher-level comprehension processes. In other words, the contributions that home literacy activities make to language comprehension are not independent of the contributions that home literacy activities make to higher-level comprehension processes.
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Preschool Children, Language Skills, Predictor Variables, Reading Comprehension, Family Environment, Decoding (Reading), Phonemic Awareness, Kindergarten, Correlation, Vocabulary Development
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Kindergarten; Primary Education; Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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