Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education

 

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

7-2016

Citation

Published in Early Childhood Education Journal, 2016. DOI 10.1007/s10643-016-0809-7

Comments

Copyright © 2016 Springer Science+Business Media New York. Used by permission. “The final publication is available at link.springer.com”.

Abstract

This empirical study explored the home environment literacy practices of young Latino English learners and their families. The participants were 217 incoming Kindergarten Latino EL students and parents. The data collection included a completed HLEQ by the parents. In addition, children were administered the PPVT, the pre- LAS, the PALS-K screening, the Woodcock Reading Mastery assessment, and the Wide Range Achievement test. All of the literacy assessments given to the children provided the researchers with comprehensive look at their literacy knowledge base. The results of this study indicate that there were two significant paths for students’ achievement: availability of books and child initiated literacy factors that were directly related to the phonological processing efforts of students.

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