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PARENTS' ROLES & HOME ENVIRONMENT, Types of parental involvement,…
PARENTS' ROLES & HOME ENVIRONMENT
Improves children's reading achievement, language comprehension and expressive
language skills
Definition
Literacy
The ability to read and write.
Most definitions embrace a wide variety of communicating talents and include oral, visual, electronic multimedia, and other forms of communication.
Family literacy
Family literacy is defined by the International Reading Association as "the ways parents, children, and extended family members use literacy at home and in their community."
Effective parental involvement
Definition
The actions that parents and carers do with their young children that makes a different to the
children’s development and is more important than who parents are
Importance
Family literacy
Support parents who have limited literacy abilities and demonstrate how they can help their children become confident and effective communicators.
Effects on children literacy development
Practices in the home can differ culturally or
linguistically from the mainstream.
Enable them to
fulfil a range of purposes.
Key factors influencing children’s literacy development
Parental attitudes and aspiration
Home learning environment
Family socio economics status
Child and parents literacy actvities
Parental education level
Types of parental involvement
Parents and community involvement
Provides greater effect on achievement than more general forms of
involvement
Children's involvement in literacy activities
Leads to greater skill acquisition, greater confidence and self-esteem,
a better parent-child relationship, and increased engagement with learning.
The significance of parental involvement and the home learning environment
Leading children to have a better cognitive
achievement, particularly in the early years