Parental involvement in the development of children's reading skill: a five-year longitudinal study

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Why is parental involvement in children's literacy development important?

Based on their findings, the authors suggest that early and continued parental involvement in children's literacy development is important because:

reading stories to pre-school children helps them develop oral language (vocabulary and listening skills) which ultimately helps them towards being fluent readers, although just reading stories may not be enough to foster children's early word reading skills;
children's early word skills (knowing letters, sounding out and blending sounds in simple words, sight reading some whole words and invented spelling) can benefit from parental guidance, although the extent or depth with which parents should pursue the teaching of reading and writing with their children cannot be determined by the results presented by this study;
the positive relation between reading storybooks in grade 1 and reading achievement in grade 3 indicates how important it is for parents to continue to read to their child during the time s/he is learning to read;
the consistent patterns of relations observed between home factors and improved reading for these middle class children suggest that parental involvement may be even more important when children are at greater risk of reading failure because of social, economic or cognitive difficulties.

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