Marina Leite Puglisi|Charles Hulme|Lorna G. Hamilton|Maggie Snowling
The Home Literacy Environment Is a Correlate, but Perhaps Not a Cause, of Variations in Children’s Language and Literacy Development
Universidade Federal de São Paulo|University of Oxford|University College London|York St John University|University of Oxford
home literacy environment wellestablished predictor childrens language literacy development investigated whether formal informal indirect measures home literacy environment predict childrens reading language skills maternal language abilities taken account data come longitudinal study children high risk dyslexia n 251 followed preschool years latent factors describing maternal language significant predictors storybook exposure direct literacy instruction maternal language phonological skills respectively predicted childrens language readingspelling skills however accounting variations maternal language storybook exposure significant predictor childrens outcomes contrast direct literacy instruction remained predictor childrens readingspelling skills argue relationship early informal home literacy activities childrens language reading skills largely accounted maternal skills may reflect genetic influences