A spotlight on preschool: the influence of family factors on children's early literacy skills.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Phonological awareness, letter knowledge, oral language (including sentence recall) and rapid automatised naming are acknowledged within-child predictors of literacy development. Separate research has identified family factors including socio-economic status, parents' level of education and family history. However, both approaches have left unexplained significant amounts of variance in literacy outcomes. This longitudinal study sought to improve prospective classification accuracy for young children at risk of literacy failure by adding two new family measures (parents' phonological awareness and parents' perceived self-efficacy), and then combining the within-child and family factors.

Method

Pre-literacy skills were measured in 102 four year olds (46 girls and 56

SUBMITTER: Heath SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3994054 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature