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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a project designed to empower fathers to take a more active role
in their child’s academic literacy development. The fathers were parents of children enrolled in Early Head Start or Head
Start programs. Data sources included transcribed interviews with fathers, the facilitator’s journal, and field notes compiled
by the researchers. Findings in three areas emerged from the data: the fathers became increasingly committed to the literacy
development of their children; participants learned about and regularly engaged in a variety of emergent literacy activities
with their children; and participants developed confidence in their roles as agents for change in their children’s lives. 相似文献
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Kirsten Hutchison 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2001,28(3):47-61
Despite the centrality of mothers in their children’s education, mothers have, until relatively recently, been largely invisible in the research on family and intergenerational literacy. This paper develops a feminist analysis of family literacy programs and outlines a pedagogical framework for family literacy, that repositions mothers as researchers of literacy practices within their families. Data from a case study of an intergenerational literacy program are analysed to make visible the complexity of the mothers’ intergenerational literacy practices and to demonstrate the value of critical literacy as a pedagogical approach that acknowledges the gendered subjectivities of women in family literacy programs as mothers, learners and teachers of their children. 相似文献
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Seon-Young Lee 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2010,11(4):497-513
In the process of children’s talent development, fathers have been largely ignored compared to mothers who are mostly identified
as the initial and primary influence for their children. Though modern fathers are becoming more engaged in childrearing and
interacting more with their children and changes in family systems lead to new challenges and demands for defining parental
roles today, fathers are still predominately portrayed as the principal breadwinners of families. Literature including both
empirical and anecdotal data has documented positive and promising outcomes of paternal involvement for children’s talent
development though fathers’ roles are not always differentiated from mothers’ roles and little research studied fathers and
gifted children, exclusively. This paper includes a comprehensive review of fathers’ contributions to children’s talent development
and discussion about issues and suggestions for research involving fathers and talent development. 相似文献
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Intervention programs to improve the educational outcomes of young children have become increasingly popular. Studies suggest
that family literacy programs involving parents can result in positive effects on children’s language and literacy development.
Issues continue to arise, however, regarding the recruitment and retention of families. One component of program design—participation
structure—focuses on who is intended to be the direct or indirect recipient of programming. The relationships between participation
structure and the recruitment/retention of families, however, has not been well understood. In this study, parents participated
in one of two family literacy program models with varying participation structures—one in which parents attended with their
children, the other in which parents attended alone. The purpose of this study was to identify parents’ motivations for participating
the program, their expectations of what the program would entail, and their reasons for remaining in the program. Focus groups
and written questionnaires were used to gather the data. The findings of the study and implications for practice are discussed. 相似文献
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Ana Schaller Lisa Oglesby Rocha David Barshinger 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2007,34(5):351-356
A study of Mexican immigrant mothers of young children in the AVANCE-Dallas early childhood intervention program demonstrates
that low-educational parents often exhibit ambitious attitudes about educational achievement for their children. Though they
lack an extensive academic background, which places their children at risk for low education, their positive attitude manifested
in daily pro-educational behaviors overcomes their low education level because they both motivate their children to pursue
academic success and participate in their children’s learning. The best way to capitalize on immigrant parents’ educational
drive for their children is to partner with them—either through an intervention program or through early childhood educators’
interaction with parents—by showing them how their participation in their children’s learning through concrete activities
(such as regular mother–child conversation, daily reading, and playtime activities that teach developmental skills) may increase
their chances of achieving academic success. 相似文献
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Pauline Davey Zeece 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2008,35(6):565-569
Using an example of a toddler’s developing understanding of an apple, this article illustrates how children integrate all
elements in their interpersonal and built environments to support their emerging literacy skills. Otto (2007) and others provide evidence from emergent literacy research that documents observations and exploration by infants, toddlers,
and young children and suggest that the ways in which children participate in early literature-related activities influence
the knowledge they construct. Twenty-two children’s books—including five for apple discoverers—are recommended and reviewed. 相似文献
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Karin I. E. Dahlin 《Reading and writing》2011,24(4):479-491
This study examines the relationship between working memory and reading achievement in 57 Swedish primary-school children
with special needs. First, it was examined whether children’s working memory could be enhanced by a cognitive training program,
and how the training outcomes would relate to their reading development. Next, it was explored how differential aspects of
working memory are related to children’s reading outcomes. The working memory training yielded effects, and these effects
appeared beneficial to children’s reading comprehension development. Working memory measures were found to be related with
children’s word reading and reading comprehension. The results show that working memory can be seen as a crucial factor in
the reading development of literacy among children with special needs, and that interventions to improve working memory may
help children becoming more proficient in reading comprehension. 相似文献
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This article describes an integrated art and early literacy project entitled, ‘Picture Partners’. The main purpose of the
project was to explore how young children create and express meaning through art. Children’s responses, both written and spoken,
were included because accompanying modes of expression expand the nature and content of their drawings and inform teachers
about children’s intentions and processes of thinking. A secondary purpose was to investigate how children use illustrations
from familiar picture books as models for their own creations and whether children’s responses to stories might be enhanced
through their collaboration with peers. Partnerships were formed and participants worked in close proximity as they drew pictures
in response to a teacher directed prompt. Using qualitative, interpretative analysis, a small subset of drawings produced
by kindergarten and first grade children was examined. The results revealed that the process of drawing was influenced by
illustrations in picturebooks, peer interactions, and the artwork of partners in close proximity. The shift in emphasis away
from the interpretations of visual realism in children’s drawings towards their own purposes allowed readers to focus on the
way drawings represent meaning within children’s socio-cultural worlds. 相似文献
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The researchers addressed two questions: (1) Does maternal reading mediation and family home literacy environment (HLE) relate
to children’s emergent literacy (EL) level? and (2) Do the relationships among these variables differ as a function of socioeconomic
strata (SES) level. A total of 94 5–6-year-old children, 47 from low SES (LSES) and 47 from high (HSES) families, and their
mothers participated. Mother–child interactions while reading an unfamiliar book were videotaped and their verbal expressions
were coded for extracting maternal mediation level. Children’s independent EL level was assessed prior to the interaction.
Compared with the LSES group, HSES children showed higher EL levels and their homes had a richer literacy environment. Maternal
mediation level differed by SES: LSES mothers paraphrased text more often; HSES mothers’ higher mediation level included a
discussion of the written system and making connections beyond the text. In the HSES group, maternal mediation level and HLE
related to children’s EL; no such relationships appeared in the LSES group. Results are discussed in terms of children’s socio-economic
background and their reading experiences. Implications for researchers and educational practices about the relationships between
children’s literacy development, SES, HLE, and parental mediation are discussed. 相似文献
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Nathalie Nader-Grosbois Sylvie Normandeau Marcelle Ricard-Cossette Germain Quintal 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2008,23(1):95-115
This study has explored the parents’ regulation strategies that were more likely to support children’s self-regulation in
learning situations with computers. These strategies have been analysed by means of new grids involving seven categories of
behaviour: cognitive strategies relating to identification of objective, exploration of means, attention and evaluation; motivational
strategies; and socio-communicative strategies such as joint attention and request. 62 7-year-old children from Quebec families
were examined with their mothers and fathers. The children were asked to complete two learning tasks that involved using LOGO
software to draw a picture. Results indicated that parents’ regulation varied depending on their gender; a higher directivity
was observed in mothers, more specifically through some specific strategies. Analysis of variance on repeated measures showed
that, during the session, there was a decrease in the specification of the objective, the initiation of joint attention and
of behaviour regulation in parents; and an improvement of the identification of the objective, planning and self-evaluation
in children. Correlations between parental regulation and children’s self-regulation strategies indicated positive links concerning
strategies relating to joint attention and to motivation; and negative links concerning strategies relating to the exploration
of means and evaluation. A good adjustment of the parents’ regulation and the children’s self-regulation correlated positivel
with success in the task. Methodological implications are proposed for research and psycho-educative intervention. 相似文献
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This study investigated the ability of the English and Spanish versions of the Get Ready to Read! Screener (E-GRTR and S-GRTR) administered at the beginning of the preschool year to predict the oral language and phonological
and print processing skills of Spanish-speaking English-language learners (ELLs) and English-only speaking children (EO) at
the end of the year. The results revealed that the E-GRTR predicted the EO and ELL children’s English emergent literacy skills
and the ELL children’s Spanish emergent literacy skills, and the S-GRTR predicted the ELL children’s English and Spanish emergent
literacy skills. For both groups, the E-GRTR and the S-GRTR were better at predicting children’s print knowledge in English
and Spanish compared to the other emergent literacy measures. The findings suggest that both screeners can be used effectively
to assess preschool children’s emergent literacy skills. 相似文献
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The purpose of this study is to examine fathers’ participation in and views about play. This study was conducted in the southwestern
part of Turkey and its sample consisted of 97 fathers who had a child attending randomly chosen public early childhood institutions.
The Parents’ Participation and Views on Play instrument was developed and used to collect data. Independent sample t tests and a series of repeated measures analysis of variance procedures were conducted to assess the influence of independent
variables on the fathers’ participation in and views on play. The results of the study indicated that fathers frequently participated
in their children’s play, and they hold positive views about play. Fathers’ socio-demographic characteristics such as income,
working status, family type and children’s gender influenced their participation and views about play. Results are discussed
in relation to the literature on parent–child play and suggestions for further research are presented. 相似文献
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This study examined families’ choices of children’s literature books for joint story reading. Teachers, parents, and their
children from five kindergarten classrooms participated in the study. Over a 4 months period, family members joined other
parents twice a week to learn and practice story reading techniques. They selected children’s literature books that were of
interest to both of them and their children and were developmentally appropriate. Family members were interviewed and responded
to a questionnaire before the intervention. The results provided insight in relation to the parents’ perceptions about literacy,
reading with families, and story reading. All members of the families read to their children frequently or daily and engaged
the children in conversations about the books read. The books chosen to be read to the children were categorized by genre,
with modern fiction being the most popular genre. 相似文献
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Engaging young children in literacy activities at home is one way for families to augment and enrich the home literacy setting
and to participate in their child’s education at an early age (St. Pierre et al. in Dev Psychol 41(6): 953–970, 2005). Burgess et al. (Read Res Quart 4(4): 408–426, 2002) suggested that the resources families have at their disposal, the quality of literacy role models provided by parents, and
the types of literacy and language activities in which parents and children engage, are all related to young children’s developing
literacy and language abilities. Other studies demonstrated that even modest literacy-promoting interventions can significantly
enhance a young child’s early literacy environment by increasing the frequency of parent–child book-sharing activities (Weitzman
et al. in Pediatrics 113(5):1248–1253, 2004). Dever (J Early Educ Fam Rev 8(4):17–28, 2001) and Dever and Burtis (Early Child Dev Care 172(4):359–370, 2002) emphasize the use of family literacy bags for early childhood development. Developing and sharing take-home literacy bags
is an exciting literacy-promoting activity that may be shared with children and families to provide support for emergent literacy.
This article explores the development of the BAGS (Books and Good Stuff) take-home literacy kits and provides suggestions
for content, construction, implementation, and evaluation. Sixteen current books are reviewed and recommended by theme. 相似文献
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Ofra Korat 《Education and Information Technologies》2009,14(1):39-53
The effects of reading a CD-ROM storybook on children’s early literacy were examined as a function of their age group and
the number of times they used the software. The investigation was carried out on 214 children: 108 pre-kindergarten children
(aged 4:2 to 5:3) and 106 kindergarten children (aged 5:3–6:4). This population included 107 girls and 107 boys. The children
in each group were randomly assigned to one of three groups. The first intervention group was afforded three CD-ROM storybook
reading sessions. The second group was afforded five reading sessions and the third group served as a control and was afforded
the regular kindergarten program. Pre- and post-intervention early literacy measures included vocabulary, word recognition
and phonological awareness. No age group differences were found between the children’s early literacy progress after using
the software and no interaction was found between age group and the number of reading sessions. Children from both age groups
exhibited a similar level of story comprehension. Children who used the software five times exhibited greater progress in
word meaning than those who used it three times and children in both of these groups did better than the control group. Children
who used the software five times exhibited greater progress in word reading and phonological awareness than children in the
control group. Implications for future research and education are discussed. 相似文献
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Developmentally Appropriate Emergent Literacy Activities for Young Children: Adapting the Early Literacy and Learning Model 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
Whether it be leaping, resisting, or being gently shoved, the field of early childhood education continues moving into the
age of accountability. Young children are expected to exhibit many requisite skills prior to kindergarten. Thus, the advancement
of pre-reading and writing skills development become one of the many areas of focus for early childhood teachers. This study
focused on the advancement of young children’s emergent literacy and letter recognition skills through developmentally appropriate
instruction and need based adapted activities using the Early Literacy and Learning Model (ELLM) curriculum. The results suggest
that mindfully adapting activities to children’s needs advances children’s emergent literacy development. 相似文献
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The question posed in the current study is whether software alone is a sufficient tool for supporting young children’s emergent
writing. We researched the effect of reading an electronic book (e-book) on kindergarten children’s emergent word writing
with and without adult support. Ninety-six 5 to 6 years old children from low socioeconomic status (SES) families were randomly
assigned to one of three groups (32 children each): (1) independently reading the e-book; (2) reading the e-book with adult
support; (3) receiving the regular kindergarten program (control). Each intervention group received four e-book reading sessions.
The children’s emergent literacy was assessed before and after the intervention and included letter-name recognition, phonological
awareness and emergent word writing. Reading the e-book with adult assistance supported the children’s phonological awareness
and emergent word writing more significantly than reading the e-book without support and more than the control group. Reading
the e-book without adult support did not differ from the control group. Furthermore, the children’s initial emergent literacy
level and reading the ebook with adult assistance contributed the most to the children’s emergent word writing. Educational
implications are discussed. 相似文献
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Relatively few studies of family literacy programmes have investigated parents' experiences and whilst a number of such programmes have been specifically aimed at fathers, little is known about the involvement of fathers in programmes which target both mothers and fathers. This article reports fathers' involvement in a family literacy programme and their home literacy practices with their young children. The article provides a definition of family literacy and describes the context of the study, which was carried out in socio‐economically disadvantaged communities in a northern English city. Fathers' participation in their children's literacy was investigated through interviews at the beginning and end of the programme (n = 85) and home visit records made by teachers throughout the programme. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of these data indicate that, while fathers' participation in the family literacy programme was not easily visible, almost all fathers were involved to some extent in home literacy events with their children. During the programme, teachers shared information about literacy activities and the importance of children having opportunities to share literacy activities with their parents. Data indicate that fathers who were not mentioned by mothers as having been involved in their children's literacy were significantly more likely to be on a low income than those who were reported as being engaged with their children in home literacy activities. Fathers in the study were involved in providing literacy opportunities, showing recognition of their children's achievements, interacting with their children around literacy and being a model of a literacy user. Although involved in all four of these key roles, fathers tended to be less involved in providing literacy opportunities than mothers. While fathers and sons engaged in what might be described as traditionally ‘masculine’ literacy activities, fathers were more often reported to be involved with their children in less obviously gendered home literacy activities. The article concludes with discussion of implications for involving fathers in future family literacy programmes. 相似文献
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Denise D. Cunningham 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2010,37(6):501-507
Preschool classrooms were investigated to determine the extent to which quality is related to children’s literacy development.
The study included 24 classrooms of 428 prekindergarten children in a large, urban Midwestern school district. Results suggest
that global classroom quality and literacy environment quality are strongly related. Literacy environment quality and children’s
literacy abilities are also related. Differences in classroom quality were found to have an impact on children’s literacy
scores—the higher the quality, the higher the scores. This article also describes lessons learned from the investigation and
provides suggestions for teachers and administrators for improving quality to enhance literacy development. 相似文献
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《International Journal of Educational Research》1998,29(1):41-50
This study was designed to determine the potential effects of a family literacy intervention program. The treatment was a five-month intervention with 15 families as they engaged in playful explorations with literacy materials, first in workshops and later in their homes. The program was designed to help families enhance the play context at home to offer children many opportunities to explore literacy-related objects through social interaction. Their selection of literacy-play materials encouraged family–child interactions through reading and through playfully using concrete literacy objects from the home environment. Strategies and activities offered to parents were those that would integrate play and literacy. Parents demonstrated the strategies and activities they learned in the workshops and used in their homes. 相似文献