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Keywords
Reading (Early childhood); Reading--Parent participation; Academic theses;
Abstract
Children begin to develop literacy skills long before they enter formal education. It has been found that parental involvement in the early literacy process through both formal and informal activities at home can help to improve a child's reading abilities, even when risk factors are present. Providing skills to parents may help them to bolster their child's reading acquisition. This study sought to determine the impact of parental on the reading skills of kindergarten students, as measured by the Dynamic Indicators of Parents of three students receiving Title I services in reading attended a reading seminar. Children of parents attending the reading seminar showed promising gains in the Phoneme Segmentation Fluency portion of the spring DIBELS assessment. Gains in the areas of Letter Naming Fluency and Nonsense Word Fluency were inconsistent across individual students whose parents participated in the seminar. The small sample size made it difficult to generalize the results to larger populations.
Year of Submission
2008
Degree Name
Specialist in Education
Department
Department of Educational Psychology, Foundations, and Leadership Studies
Department
Department of Educational Psychology and Foundations
First Advisor
Charlotte M. Haselhuhn
Date Original
2008
Object Description
1 PDF file (42 pages)
Copyright
©2008 Erin Vander Velde
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Vander Velde, Erin, "The Effects of Parental Involvement on Early Reading Acquisition Among Kindergarten Students" (2008). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 1627.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/1627
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