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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Family literacy"”.
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IMPACTS OF PROMOTING FAMILY LITERACY KNOWLEDGE: A KINDERGARTEN TEACHER’S UNDERSTANDING OF HOW TO CONTINUE PROMOTING FAMILY LITERACY
… shape children’s first experiences with literacy. Children’s interactions with others at home create contexts for learning and children’s literacy embedded in everyday life activities. Nineteen kindergarten students and their parents participated in this action research study. Parents …
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Family literacy events promoting early reading and writing behaviors
Whole language approach.
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Family literacy events promoting early reading and writing behaviors
Whole language approach.
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An investigation of family literacy practices of eight families with preprimary children and a family literacy program conducted in a low socio-economic area
Study of the research literature showed that literacy skills are socialised in young children along with their learning of oral language. This socialisation process occurs within a child's home environment long before they enter formal schooling. Family literacy has been shown to have the potential …
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Parent education in family literacy programs: a mixed methods study
… study aimed to provide insights into family literacy programs, with a specific focus on the parent education component used by the Parent as Teachers program through home visiting and/or playgroup models. Specifically, the Parents as Teachers program influenced parents’ parental …
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Masculinity, fathers and family literacy: Glimpses behind the ‘hard-man’ front
… social constructions of masculinities and family literacy work, with 20 men from inner-city Dublin working-class communities. As a consequence of the economic downturn in Ireland, the breadwinner role for many men was exchanged, involuntarily, for that of stay-at-home father (SAHF). …
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Encouraging parent-student literacy conversations: hosting an upper elementary family literacy event
… between parents and teachers to develop the literacy skills of upper elementary school students in grades 3-5. The family literacy event used in this study consisted of two sessions held at the students' school. The first session was a parent-only learning experience, and both parents and …
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Implementation and Evaluation of a Chinese Language Family Literacy Program: Impact on Young Children's Literacy Development in Chinese and English
Previous research on family literacy in North America has generally been conducted in English, even if the program targets English for speakers of other languages. However, the differences in English proficiency among parent participants may vary enormously in ways that are not easily predictable. …
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The type of support that family literacy programme graduate parents give to their first graders of formal school in Oshana region
The study involves Family Literacy graduate parents who completed the programme in Oshana Region. It examined the (1) type of support Family Literacy graduate parents render to their 151 graders of formal school (2) impacts of Family Literacy Programme on parents to support children in their …
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PERCEPTION MATTERS: A CASE STUDY EXPLORING HOW BELIEF SYSTEMS AFFECT FAMILY-SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS AND FAMILY LITERACY INITIATIVES IN A TITLE I SCHOOL
<p>Family-school partnerships have been shown to have positive effects on students’ overall performance in school. However, in many instances schools have not used partnerships effectively to support literacy learning, particularly for Black families. Teacher bias, negative perceptions, and lack of …
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The Effect of Parent English Literacy Training on Student Achievement.
… district in North Central Texas that uses its family literacy center as an intervention to aid ELL families in English language acquisition. Students fell into three categories: students and parents who attend the family literacy center English classes, students whose parents attend the family …
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Illuminating Literacies Beyond the Classroom: Women as Bricoleurs Negotiating Social Class and Multiple Discourses
… 1995; Delgado-Gaitan, 1991; McCaleb, 1994). Literacy development at school is facilitated by teachers' knowledge of students' home-based discourses (Auerbach, 1989; McCaleb, 1994; Voss, 1996). This dissertation research responded to the question: What do educators need to understand and …
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A Case Study of Parental Behaviors in an English Language Learner Community Technology Literacy Lab Setting and the Extension of the Behaviors in the Home
The purpose of the study was to describe a family literacy program attempting to teach adult English language learners (ELL) the knowledge and skills that would allow them to support their children's learning at home. The methodology employed was a multi-case study. Fourteen adult participants were …
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An Investigation of the Community-Based English Tutoring Program (CBET)
… 227 Initiative in California, statewide family literacy programs were established as Community-Based English Tutoring (CBET) programs to provide adult English language instruction to parents with limited English proficiency. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the San Diego City …
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Measuring early literacy behaviors: preschool-age children and first-generation Mexican immigrant parents
… sound quantitative measurement of parent early literacy behaviors, designed for Spanish speaking families. This study describes the need for and the development of a questionnaire completed by parents. A pilot test of the Emergent Literacy Behavior Questionnaire (ELBQ) provided preliminary …
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Researching the Influence of Families Sharing Viewing Experiences on Motivation and Attention in the Classroom
… like to see if a shared experience in science literacy reflected in their classroom participation and motivation. The questions I asked in this study were: 1) How do students and their parents perceive the importance of sharing family literacy experiences at home? 2 ) How do family viewing …
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Early literacy begins with ... whom? An exploration of mothering work as a component in students' educational success
"Much research has examined the benefits of family literacy programs, but only few have taken up the embedded gendered and class dynamics found in many early literacy frameworks such as storytime programs. The purpose of this thesis then is to investigate the kinds of gendered and class based …
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Establishing Effective Home-School Partnerships by Building Capacity
… programs with little or no content relating to family and community relations, and therefore, lack the necessary knowledge, skills, and sometimes belief systems to successfully establish effective home-school partnerships that lead to increased educational outcomes for all children. This …
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