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Mothers’ literacy beliefs: Connections with the home literacy environment and pre-school children’s literacy development:

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This paper examined mothers' beliefs about literacy development, the association of those beliefs with other aspects of the home literacy environment, and connections between parental literacy beliefs and other aspects in the home environment.
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This study examined mothers’ beliefs about literacy development, the association of those beliefs with other aspects of the home literacy environment, and connections between parental literacy beli...

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Family Reading Behavior and Early Literacy Skills in Preschool Children From Low-Income Backgrounds

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The Home Literacy Environment Is a Correlate, but Perhaps Not a Cause, of Variations in Children's Language and Literacy Development.

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Preventing reading difficulties in young children

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Joint Book Reading Makes for Success in Learning to Read: A Meta-Analysis on Intergenerational Transmission of Literacy

TL;DR: In this paper, a quantitative meta-analysis of the available empirical evidence related to parent-preschooler reading and several outcome measures is presented. And the results support the hypothesis that book reading is related to outcome measures such as language growth, emergent literacy and reading achievement.

Joint book reading makes for success in learning to read

TL;DR: The results support the hypothesis that book reading, in particular, affects acquisition of the written language register and the effect seems to become smaller as soon as children become conventional readers and are able to read on their own.
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Family Poverty, Welfare Reform, and Child Development

TL;DR: It is suggested that family poverty has selective effects on child development, and ways policies might be aimed at preventing either economic deprivation itself or its effects are suggested.
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