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Empowering Young Children in Poverty by Improving Their Home Literacy Environments
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Evans, Walter; Harris, Paulette; Sethuraman, Sankara; Thiruvaiyaru, Dharma; Pendergraft, Elizabeth; Cliett, Karen; Cato, Valerie – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2016
An innovative DVD of classic nursery rhymes and stories empowered at-risk kindergarten children to control in the home when and how much they listen, promoting better listening, reading, and overall literacy comprehension skills. Coupled with modest teacher training, and limited use in the classroom, the DVD generated dramatic vocabulary growth in…
Descriptors: Young Children, Poverty, Family Environment, Reading Habits
Meaning-Related and Print-Related Interactions between Preschoolers and Parents during Shared Book Reading and Their Associations with Emergent Literacy Skills
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Han, Jisu; Neuharth-Pritchett, Stacey – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2015
This study examined interactions between preschool children and parents during shared book reading by analyzing parental self-report data. Using confirmatory factor analytic procedures and structural equation modeling, this study developed a scale measuring meaning-related and print-related reading interactions and examined their associations with…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Skills
Parental Involvement Routines and Former Head Start Children's Literacy Outcomes
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Dove, Meghan Kicklighter; Neuharth-Pritchett, Stacey; Wright, David W.; Wallinga, Charlotte – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2015
This study examined the relationship between parental involvement routines and former Head Start children's literacy outcomes. Former Head Start children (n = 3, 808) from the National Head Start/Public School Transition Demonstration Research Project comprised the sample. Family routines and literacy outcomes in kindergarten were examined,…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Emergent Literacy, Research Projects, Preschool Children
Young Learners: The Home Literacy Environments of Australian Four-Year-Olds
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Brown, P. Margaret; Byrnes, Linda J.; Raban, Bridie; Watson, Linda – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2012
This study investigated the home literacy environments (HLEs) of 4-year-old children attending an early childhood program prior to school entry and the association between the HLE and children's interests in and attitudes to literacy. One hundred and thirty-eight parents and 140 children participated in the study. Parents completed a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Childhood Interests, Reading Habits
Stimulation a l'emergence de la Lecture en Milieu Familial Chez des Enfants Presentant Une Deficience Intellectuelle (Stimulation of the Emergence of Literacy among Families with Children Presenting an Intellectual Deficiency).
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Saint-Laurent, Lise; Leclerc, Mario – Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 1998
Compared family stimulation related to literacy provided to five- to seven-year-olds with intellectual deficits and without intellectual deficits. Found that, compared to children without intellectual deficits, children with intellectual deficits had fewer books available, parents began reading to them later in life, and read to them less…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Developmental Delays, Disabilities, Emergent Literacy
Images of Literacy: Young Children's Drawings about Reading and Writing.
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McKay, Roberta A.; Kendrick, Maureen E. – Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 2001
Explored images that young children construct of literacy in their lives, both inside and outside of school. Analysis of the drawings of 48 children in grades 1-3 revealed a shift in the children's images of themselves in relation to literacy with each grade level. The influence of home and family on literacy behaviors was also noted. (Author/TJQ)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beginning Writing, Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Art