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ERIC Number: EJ1472982
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 24
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1059-308X
EISSN: EISSN-1059-308X
Available Date: 0000-00-00
To Ask Rather than to Tell: Using the Questionnaire of Home Environment Literacy Practices to Enhance Home-School Collaborations
Tracey Kumar
School Community Journal, v35 n1 p227-250 2025
Attempts to raise the emergent literacy of "at-risk" children have prompted programs to teach caregivers how to implement school-like reading and writing activities at home. As an alternative to these programs, which often overlooked families' funds of knowledge, critics have encouraged literacy educators (e.g., teachers, literacy specialists) to collaborate with families to co-construct activities that build upon their existing literacy practices. Thus, to help literacy educators identify practices that are already in place, this manuscript presents the 16-item Questionnaire of Home Environment Literacy Practices (Q-HELP). Drawing from an established conceptual framework, the Q-HELP addresses the types of literacy support that caregivers provide and the literacy strands to which those supports are applied. The manuscript offers a detailed description of the background and design of the Q-HELP, presents findings concerning the psychometric soundness of the instrument, and describes three ways that literacy educators can utilize the instrument to enhance their partnerships with caregivers. A copy of the instrument is appended for immediate application.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
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Language: English
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