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The Role of Home Literacy Environment in Reading Beyond the Early Grades
Most studies on home literacy environment (HLE) have examined its role in children’s language and literacy skills in the early childhood years. However, parents continue to be involved in their children’s learning later on.
George K. Georgiou, Li Zhang
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Investigating the home literacy environment and emergent literacy skills of children as they start school in New Zealand : a thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Educational Psychology, Massey University, Albany, New Zealand [PDF]
Home literacy environment (HLE) has been consistently linked with children’s early literacy skills in international research, and is argued to be an important variable influencing the development of children’s emergent literacy.
Van Tonder, Brittney Elizabeth
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The role of parents’ beliefs regarding their children’s literacy acquisition
Early literacy acquisition is influenced by children’s social and cultural background. Several empirical studies have shown that by considering literacy activities at home and providing cultural resources, the correlation between the social and cultural ...
Anna Ratka-Pauler +2 more
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Predicting grade school scientific literacy from aspects of the early home science environment
Fostering scientific literacy has become an increasingly salient goal as evidence accumulates regarding the early emergence of foundational skills and knowledge in this domain, as well as their relation to long-term success and engagement.
Jihye Bae +4 more
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Bilingual children in the North American context significantly improve in English language proficiency, but their heritage language learning varies between different linguistic groups.
Guofang Li +4 more
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We analyze the role that early years policy might play in narrowing educational attainment gaps. We begin by examining gaps in school readiness between low-, middle-, and high-income children, drawing on data from new large and nationally representative ...
Waldfogel, Jane, Washbrook, Elizabeth
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The present study examined whether parents’ and bilingual children’s own relative use of the heritage language vs. the majority language in the homes of bilingual children in Denmark before school start explains variance in 2nd grade majority language ...
Anders Højen +5 more
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This study focuses on parental reading and mathematical difficulties, the home literacy environment, and the home numeracy environment as well as their predictive role in Finnish children’s reading and mathematical development through Grades 1–9.
Daria Khanolainen +7 more
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Today, many children worldwide grow up in bilingual or multilingual families. This study explores early literacy development in Russian–Hebrew bilingual families in Israel.
Miriam Minkov, Dorit Aram
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Effects of a Dutch Family Literacy Program: The Role of Implementation
It is hypothesized that variability found in the effects of family literacy programs results from differences in implementation by parents. In this study, the implementation and effects of a Dutch program were examined in a sample of 207 kindergarteners (
Sanneke de la Rie +3 more
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