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Children's literacy interest and its relation to parents’ literacy‐promoting practices
Author(s) -
Hume Laura E.,
Lonigan Christopher J.,
McQueen Jessica D.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of research in reading
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.077
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1467-9817
pISSN - 0141-0423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2012.01548.x
Subject(s) - literacy , psychology , developmental psychology , early literacy , construct (python library) , emergent literacy , information literacy , preference , checklist , family literacy , critical literacy , pedagogy , computer science , microeconomics , economics , cognitive psychology , programming language
This study examined how children's literacy interests related to parent literacy‐promoting practices across time. Using a sample of 909 preschool‐age children and the newly developed Child Activities Preference Checklist, literacy interest appeared to be a complex construct, not easily captured by a single measure. In a subsample of 230 children with longitudinal data, parent literacy practices and child literacy interests related concurrently and across time. Parent literacy practices were more stable than child literacy interests, with children's literacy interest continuing to develop over the preschool year. Parent practices of exposing children to literacy and teaching them literacy concepts appeared to be distinct constructs. Exposure to literacy was especially important in the growth of literacy interests and the hypothesis that exposure has a negative effect on children with little initial interest was not fully supported.