Mothers’ contributions to their children’s emergent literacy skills
The aim of this study was to evaluate how mothers’ practices of emergent literacy contribute to their child’s development of emergent literacy skills. The research included fifty-nine children beginning their kindergarten year and their respective families, who participated in an at-home evaluation and a questionnaire about the mother’s early literacy practices. Results indicate that, in addition to the importance of parent-child shared reading, a number of other activities had a positive influence. Those other activities may be part of the family’s everyday life, but some of them remain absent from the services being offered.