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Silinskas G, Sénéchal M, Torppa M, et al. Home Literacy Activities and Children's Reading Skills, Independent Reading, and Interest in Literacy Activities From Kindergarten to Grade 2. Front Psychol. 2020;11:1508doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01508.
Silinskas, G., Sénéchal, M., Torppa, M., & Lerkkanen, M. K. (2020). Home Literacy Activities and Children's Reading Skills, Independent Reading, and Interest in Literacy Activities From Kindergarten to Grade 2. Frontiers in psychology, 111508. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01508
Silinskas, Gintautas, et al. "Home Literacy Activities and Children's Reading Skills, Independent Reading, and Interest in Literacy Activities From Kindergarten to Grade 2." Frontiers in psychology vol. 11 (2020): 1508. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01508
Silinskas G, Sénéchal M, Torppa M, Lerkkanen MK. Home Literacy Activities and Children's Reading Skills, Independent Reading, and Interest in Literacy Activities From Kindergarten to Grade 2. Front Psychol. 2020 Jul 02;11:1508. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01508. eCollection 2020. PMID: 32733336; PMCID: PMC7362993.
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Front Psychol. 2020 Jul 02;11:1508. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01508. eCollection 2020.

Home Literacy Activities and Children's Reading Skills, Independent Reading, and Interest in Literacy Activities From Kindergarten to Grade 2.

Frontiers in psychology

Gintautas Silinskas, Monique Sénéchal, Minna Torppa, Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
  2. Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
  3. Department of Teacher Education, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.

PMID: 32733336 PMCID: PMC7362993 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01508

Abstract

According to the Home Literacy Model (Sénéchal and LeFevre, 2002, 2014), young children can be exposed to two distinct types of literacy activities at home. First, meaning-related literacy activities are those where print is present but is not the focus of the parent-child interaction, for example, when parents read storybooks to their children. In contrast, code-related literacy activities focus on the print, for example, activities such as when parents teach their children the names and sounds of letters or to read words. The present study was conducted to expand the Home Literacy Model by examining its relation with children's engagement in literacy activities at home and at school as Finnish children transitioned from kindergarten to Grades 1 and 2. Two facets of children's engagement were examined, namely, children's independent reading at home and their interest in literacy activities. Children (

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Keywords: early literacy; home literacy activities; independent reading; kindergarten to Grade 2; reading skills

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