Children’s acquisition of early literacy skills: examining family contributions

By Kymberley K. Bennett, Daniel J. Weigel, S. Martin. 2002

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education

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Relations Among Maternal Literacy Beliefs, Home Literacy Practices, and the Emergent Literacy Skills of Preschoolers With Specific Language Impairment (2008, background): “In addition, some parents may take on a “family as educator” role by explicitly teaching their children about literacy forms and functions ( Bennett, Weigel, & Martin, 2002 , p.”
Just picking it up? Young children learning with technology at home (2008, result): “This perspective is in line with recent research which has identified family practices as influential in the preparation of young children for school (Bennett, Weigel, & Martin, 2002 ; Vincent, Ball, & Kemp, 2004 ).”
Enhancing Phonological Awareness and Letter Knowledge in Preschool Children with Down Syndrome (2006, background): “They emphasised the importance of parents’ attitudes to literacy and their engagement in literacy‐related activities including joint book reading with their children (Bennett, Weigel, & Martin, 2002 ; Burgess, Hecht, & Lonigan, 2002 ).”
Children's Preliteracy Skills: Influence of Mothers' Education and Beliefs About Shared-Reading Interactions (2008, methodology): “…of the family as educator model, parental beliefs about shared reading (based on the PRBI) and home literacy practices had the highest loadings, indicating that these two variables together served as the “most important components of the Family as Educator model” (Bennett et al., 2002, p. 305).”
Telling Stories and Making Books: Evidence for an Intervention to Help Parents in Migrant Head Start Families Support Their Children's Language and Literacy (2010, background): “…including many of the activities that were incorporated into the SHELLS intervention: talking, conversing, telling stories, reading books, and retelling and rereading those stories and books (Bennett et al., 2002; Roberts et al., 2005; Sonnenschein & Munsterman, 2002; Weigel et al., 2005).”