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Pillinger, Claire; Wood, Clare – Literacy, 2014
Previous studies have demonstrated the positive impact of shared reading (SR) and dialogic reading (DR) on young children's language and literacy development. This exploratory study compared the relative impact of parental DR and shared reading interventions on 4-year-old children's early literacy skills and parental attitudes to reading…
Descriptors: Literacy, Parent Attitudes, Intervention, Reading Improvement
Taylor, Carol – Literacy, 2005
This paper considers the pioneering development of a community-focused literacy initiative that began in Derbyshire, a county in the middle of England. Read On-Write Away! (ROWA!) is viewed from the standpoint of its former director. The article describes the strategy in the context of national policy and other government initiatives in England,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education
St Clair, Ralf – Literacy, 2005
In 2003 the National Literacy Secretariat (NLS) of Canada, at that time a branch of the Department of Human Resources and Development Canada, decided to review its research function. This article discusses some of the questions the review raised for the field. Many of these issues are to do with the management of knowledge--what research gets…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Resources, Adult Literacy, Educational Research
Knaflic, Livija – Literacy, 2005
Different research on literacy demonstrates that the family has an important impact on literacy in general and it seems that there may be an inter-generational transfer of literacy level and reading habits within families. In order to compensate for lack of encouragement of reading at home, different initiatives have been developed involving work…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Habits, Family Literacy, Adult Students