EJ504345 TM518788
Title: Joint Book Reading Makes for Success in Learning to Read: A Meta-Analysis on Intergenerational Transmission of Literacy.
Author(s): Bus, Adriana G.; And Others
Source: Review of Educational Research, v65 n1 p1-21 Spr 1995
Publication Date: 1995
ISSN: 0034-6543
Language: English
Document Type: Information Analysis (070); Journal articles (080); Reports--Evaluative (142)
Journal Announcement: CIJSEP1995
Results of a quantitative analysis of empirical evidence related to parent-preschooler reading support the hypothesis that parent- preschooler reading is related to outcome measures such as language growth, emergent literacy, and reading achievement. Book reading apparently affects acquisition of the written language register. (SLD)
Descriptors: *Academic Achievement; Children; *Language Acquisition; Language Proficiency; *Literacy; *Meta Analysis; Outcomes of
Education; *Parent Child Relationship; Parents; Reading Achievement; *Reading Aloud to Others; Reading Attitudes; Reading Skills
Identifiers: *Intergenerational Attitude Transference
