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EJ532191 CS752437

Title: Stories, Coupons, and the "TV Guide": Relationships between Home Literacy Experiences and Emergent Literacy Knowledge.
Author(s): Purcell-Gates, Victoria
Source: Reading Research Quarterly, v31 n4 p406-28 Oct-Dec 1996
Publication Date: 1996
ISSN: 0034-0553
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJMAR1997

Documents the range and frequency of literacy practices in 20 low-socioeconomic-status homes. Finds great variability in type and frequency of literacy events: children knew more about the alphabetic principle in homes where literate members read and wrote for their own entertainment and leisure; and parents' involvement was higher when children began formal literacy instruction in school. (RS)

Descriptors: Early Childhood Education; *Emergent Literacy; *Family Environment; *Low Income; Parent Participation
Identifiers: Literacy Research; Reading Behavior

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