TY - JOUR
AU - Wells, Gordon
AB - ABSTRACT Large scale investigations into home variables and educational success frequently demonstrate relationships between global factors such as socio‐economic status, education of parents, etc. and general educational achievement, of which attainment in reading is often taken as an index. This paper reports a small but detailed study of home influences on the early stages of learning to read within the context of the Bristol Longitudinal Language Development Research Programme. Data were derived from three sources: interviews with the parents when the children were aged 5 and 7 years; regular recordings of spontaneous conversation at home between 3 %and 5 years; assessments of reading at 5 and 7 years. Attainment in reading at age 7 was found to be strongly predicted by knowledge of literacy on entry to school, and this in turn to be predicted by parental interest in literacy and quality of verbal interaction with the child in the preschool years. The child's own pre‐school interest in literacy was not found to be strongly associated with later success. The significance of these findings is discussed.
TI - The influence of home on learning to read
JF - Journal of Research in Reading
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9817.1979.tb00191.x
DA - 1979-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-influence-of-home-on-learning-to-read-S2BI0oytgs
SP - 53
VL - 2
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -