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Directions: Journal of Educational Studies Pacific Curriculum Network
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Parent participation

Title: Families matter : adults reading aloud to children in the home and its implications for language education

Author: Spreadbury, Julie
Subject:  Children|Language
 Oral reading
 Reading|Parent participation
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies no.32, vol.17, no.1, 1995
Collation: p. 21-37 ;

Abstract: This study examined the complex three-way interactions that take place when a parent and child share a text. It endeavoured to tease out the particular variables in this interaction that facilitate the child’s later reading ability. As part of this, the study also investigated parent styles in such book reading episodes and how these changed from when the child was a dependent reader to when the child was an independent reader, i.e. the transition period from the end of the child’s preschool year to the end of the first year of primary school – a period neglected by researchers in early literacy.

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Title: Reading and writing development in the early years (0-6 years) : the role of the adult

Author: Campbell, Robin
Subject:  Children|Books and reading
 Reading|Parent participation
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies no.32, vol.17, no.1, 1995
Collation: p. 38-53 ;

Abstract: The role of the adult as a support for children’s literacy development is of considerable importance. Recently Frank Smith (1992) indicated that ‘ethods can never ensure that children learn to read. Children must learn from people’. That quote encapsulated, very neatly, the key role of adults. Those adults, often parents at home and teachers at school, will provide and then support children in a variety of literacy activities, which serves to facilitate the children in their literacy development (Campbell 1990). What are some of those literacy activities – especially in the early years? And how do the adults at home, in pre-school playgroups, in nursery classrooms and infant school classrooms use the literacy activities to support the children’s learning? There are, of course, many different opportunities for children to engage with literacy. However, six particular activities will beemphasised in this article. They are story reading, using environmental print, momentary engagements with print, shared book experience, shared reading and opportunities for writing.

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