Susan Grieshaber|Paul Shield|Allan Luke|Shelly Macdonald
Family literacy practices and home literacy resources: An Australian pilot study
Queensland University of Technology|Queensland University of Technology|Queensland University of Technology|Queensland University of Technology
combined impact social class cultural background experience upon early literacy achievement first year schooling among durable questions educational research links established social class achievement literacy involves complex social cognitive practices necessarily reflected connections made complexity relationships social class cultural background experience impact early literacy achievement received little research attention recent refinements broad terms social class socioeconomic status questioned established links social class achievement nevertheless remains difficult move beyond deficit mismatch models explaining understanding underperformance children lower socioeconomic cultural minority groups conventional measures used data australian pilot study reported add increasing evidence income necessarily related directly home literacy resources resources used data show level print resources home may good indicator level use resources