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Parent Involvement In A Year One In-Class Reading Practice Program, Sheelagh Tillotson
Parent Involvement In A Year One In-Class Reading Practice Program, Sheelagh Tillotson
Theses : Honours
Parents play a crucial role in their children's literacy development, and their influence on early reading attitudes is profound. Many successful programs have been developed in England, US, Australia and New Zealand to involve parents in assisting their children's reading both at home and at school, but research has also shown that there are a number of difficulties associated with instigating classroom-based programs. The purpose of this study was to investigate an existing, classroom-based reading practice program involving parents and to analyse how and whether it was successful for each participating group: that is parents, students and the teacher. The …