Michelle Hood|Elizabeth G. Conlon|Glenda Andrews
Preschool home literacy practices and children's literacy development: A longitudinal analysis.
3year longitudinal study authors tested extended senechal j le fevres 2002 model relationships preschool home literacy practices childrens literacy language development parentchild reading home literacy environment questionnaire plus childrens title recognition test parental teaching letters words name writing assessed 6 months prior childrens school entry 143 children 55 male participants mean age 536 years sd 029 attended gold coast australia government preschools parentchild reading literacy teaching weakly correlated r 18 related different outcomes consistent original model age gender memory nonverbal ability controlled parental teaching independently related r w woodcocks 1997 preschool letterword identification scores rchange 458 p 008 relationship mediated relationships parental teaching grades 1 2 letterword identification singleword reading spelling rates phonological awareness rhyme detection phonological deletion parentchild reading independently related grade 1 vocabulary rchange 56 p 005 thus home practices relevant different aspects literacy language development