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Home Environment Influence on Adolescent Health Literacy

Family & Community Health, 2022
Adolescent health disparities are influenced by individuals' health literacy. To date, the only known household factors to influence adolescent health literacy (AHL) are social capital factors of parental health literacy, parent education, and household income.
Karen K, Melton, Elizabeth Perry, Caldwell   +1 more
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‘Literacy nooks’: Geosemiotics and domains of literacy in home spaces

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2011
Conceptualizations of the home have changed, particularly in respect to children’s rearing and development. An increased awareness of early intervention in meeting a child’s learning needs has filtered down into the organization of space in homes. Maximizing learning opportunities by creating ‘literacy nooks’, which involves carving out interactive ...
Rainbird, S., Rowsell, J.
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To Home Literacy and Beyond

2022
The home is the first environment in which children's earliest learning and development takes place. Researchers have typically focused on the home literacy environment (HLE) to explain activities parents engage in that support children's literacy and language development.
Alexa Ellis, Lauren Westerberg, Yemimah A. King, Sarah H. Eason, Connor D. O'Rear, David J. Purpura   +5 more
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Literacy interest, home literacy environment and emergent literacy skills in preschoolers

Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
PurposeChildren's literacy interest is positively associated with their literacy attainments. However, interest in literacy activities, particularly for younger children, is likely influenced by their home literacy environment (HLE), which may also be bound up with socio‐economic factors, such as parental education levels.MethodIn the present study, we
Julia M. Carroll, Andrew J. Holliman, Francesca Weir, Alison E. Baroody   +3 more
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Assessing the Home Literacy Environment

European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2005
Abstract. As the findings of many studies have shown, different aspects of children's home literacy environment are related to the development of their language competence. We designed the Home Literacy Environment Questionnaire (HLEQ) to evaluate the quality of different aspects of the home literacy environment. This paper presents the development of
Ljubica Marjanovič Umek, Anja Podlesek, Urška Fekonja   +2 more
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Home Literacy Program and Children's Development of Literacy

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1997
This study assessed the relation between family's involvement in a home literacy program and children's development of literacy. Differences in outcomes between 48 children whose parents participated in a parent program and 54 whose parents did not were examined by multivariate analysis of variance which indicated significantly higher scores for the ...
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Home literacy activities and their influence on early literacy skills.

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 2000
The relationship between the home environments of 66 children and their language and literacy development was examined. After accounting for child age, parent education, and child ability as indexed by scores on a rapid automatized naming task and Block Design of the WPPSI-R, shared book reading at home made no contribution to the prediction of the ...
M A, Evans, D, Shaw, M, Bell
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