Intergenerational Reading [microform] : Affecting the Literacy Environment of the Home / Ruth D. Handel and Ellen Goldsmith
- Bib ID:
- 5519883
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Handel, Ruth D
- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1989
- 20 p.
- Summary:
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A study examined the effectiveness of the Parent Readers program, an intergenerational reading project which attempted to change the reading behaviors of underprepared community college students who are parents and to affect the literacy environment of the home in ways that promote the literacy status of the parents/students and their children. The project consisted of a set of voluntary workshops in which children's literature was used to teach the adults how to read and discuss enjoyable books with their children at home. Subjects, five female low-income members of minorities ranging in age from 25 to 46 with above average participation in the workshops, were interviewed to explore the place of reading in their overall life context; the type of learning for parent and child that evolved from the workshops and from home reading, and their attitudes toward the college experience. Results indicated that in every case, intergenerational connections were made: the parents read to their children, were stimulated to read more for themselves and applied the reading comprehension strategies in seeking to understand both the children's books and their own adult selections. (One table of data is included; 12 references are attached.) (RS)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, March 27-31, 1989).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Adult Literacy
- Case Studies
- Childrens Literature
- Family Environment
- Family Involvement
- Parent Participation
- Parent Student Relationship
- Program Evaluation
- Reading Aloud to Others
- Reading Attitudes
- Reading Research
- Two Year Colleges
- Intergenerational Learning Parent Readers Program
- Reading Motivation
- Other authors/contributors:
- Goldsmith, Ellen, author
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1989
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