One Step at a Time: The Effects of an Early Literacy Text Messaging Program for Parents of Preschoolers

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Socioeconomic Gaps in Early Childhood Experiences (2016, background): “Furthermore, recent experimental evidence suggests that changes in home literacy practices are associated with improvements in children’s early literacy outcomes (York & Loeb, 2014).”
THE PERSISTENCE OF POVERTY IN THE CONTEXT OF FINANCIAL INSTABILITY: A BEHAVIORAL PERSPECTIVE (2015, background): “Text messages can further incorporate suggestions that reinforce positive parenting, or, as recently tested, early literacy skill-building (York & Loeb, 2014).”
PK-3: What Does It Mean For INstruction? (2017, background): “Text messages have also shown promise as a strategy for stimulating parent involvement (York & Loeb, 2014), and could be used similarly across the grades.”
Connect-Text: Leveraging Text-Message Communication to Mitigate Chronic Absenteeism and Improve Parental Engagement in the Earliest Years of Schooling (2018, methodology): “We designed Connect-Text in the mold of the successful Ready4K! model which increased early child literacy skills by sending families several different types of messages aligned with the categories of utility, individualization, and support (York et al., 2018).”
The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries: Evidence from 196 Randomized Field Experiments (2016, unknown): “At the end of the school year, York and Loeb (2014) collected survey responses from parents and teachers to investigate the intervention’s impact on parental involvement.”