Mostafa Mamdouh Kamel, Jean Nicolas Westenberg, Fiona Choi, Katarina Tabi, Adel Badawy, Hisham Ramy, Hossam Elsawi, Michael Krausz
Electronic Mental Health as an Option for Egyptian Psychiatry: Cross-Sectional Study
JMIR mental health
abstract study examines longitudinal relations among early literacy experiences home childrens kindergarten literacy skills grade 1 word reading spelling skills grade 4 reading comprehension fluency spelling reading pleasure ninety frenchspeaking children tested end kindergarten grade 1 65 followed end grade 4 parents reported kindergarten storybook reading occurred frequently sometimes taught child read words results hierarchical regression analyses controlled parent education well concurrent longitudinal relations among literacy behaviors reveal parent teaching literacy kindergarten directly predicted kindergarten alphabet knowledge grade 4 reading fluency whereas storybook exposure directly predicted kindergarten vocabulary frequency children reported reading pleasure grade 4 moreover storybook exposure predicted grade 4 reading comprehension indirectly findings extend home literacy model proposed senechal lefevre 2002