The efficacy of a voluntary summer book reading intervention for low-income Latino children from language minority families.
By James S. Kim, Jonathan Guryan. 2010
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The effects of a voluntary summer reading intervention with and without a parent training component were evaluated with a sample of low-income Latino children from language minority families. During the last month of 4th grade, 370 children were pretested on a measure of reading comprehension and vocabulary and were randomly assigned to (a) a treatment group in which children received 10 self-selected books during summer vacation, (b) a family literacy group in which children received 10 self-selected books and were invited with their parents to attend 3 summer literacy events (2 hr in length), and (c) a control group. Although children in the treatment group and the family literacy group reported reading more books than the control group, there was no significant effect on reading comprehension and vocabulary. Recommendations for improving the efficacy of the intervention are discussed, including efforts to improve the match between reader ability and the readability of texts and the instructional goals of the family literacy events.
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Language and Linguistics
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Citations in the corpus
- The Science of Reading Comprehension Instruction (2021, background): “Importantly, simply allowing students to choose their own books without guidance (Kim & Guryan, 2010), or even matching books to readers based on their interests (Kim, 2007), is not always enough to significantly impact comprehension.”
- The Effects of Summer Reading on Low-Income Children’s Literacy Achievement From Kindergarten to Grade 8 (2013, unknown): “For example, Lareau (2003) has shown that low-income parents promote the accomplishment of their children’s natural growth by providing basic needs (e.”