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Enhancing Head Start Parents' Conceptions of Literacy Development and Their Confidence as Literacy Teachers: A Study of Parental Involvement.

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Roskos, Kathleen; Neuman, Susan – Early Child Development and Care, 1993

Examined the influence of six African-American parents' involvement in literacy-related activities at Head Start programs on their self-confidence, responsivity, and sensitivity to children's emerging literacy behaviors. Based on interviews, observations, and the parents' own self-observations, discovered improvement over 20 weeks in the parents'…

Descriptors: Blacks, Communication Skills, Early Childhood Education, Literacy Education

Support at Home for Early Language and Literacies (SHELLS): Collaboration and Challenge.

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Makin, Laurie; Spedding, Susan – Early Child Development and Care, 2001

Describes the Support at Home for Early Language and Literacies (SHELLS) project, an early literacy intervention for families of children between birth and age 3 in rural Australia. Findings from monitoring suggest that this collaborative, flexible model has the potential to assist families from a range of social, cultural, economic, and…

Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Family Literacy, Family Programs