A Portrait of Parents of Successful Readers.

摘要: Reviews of research, studies early readers, and investigations emergent literacy uniformly conclude that parents' beliefs, aspirations, actions affect their children's growth into embracing literacy. However, conflicting results call question the utility simply correlating race or various socioeconomic factors, such as parental level education family income, with reading achievement. Research indicates parents successful reader-,: (1) want children to succeed; (2) impart a sense importance high expectations children; (3) love value (4) like, enjoy, respect are willing spend time, money, effort nurture literacy; (5) believe in adage "the parent is child's first teacher"; (6) know what going on school lives; (7) they can have an impact development; (8) tend provide artifacts, especially materials, homes' (9) read often; (10) serve role models readers themselves; (11) effective interactions which assist learning how construct meaning from text interact successfully settings. The development who both caa will enormous. (Fifty-three references attached.) (RS) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS best be made original document.