This study addressed the questions of whether parents can give effective phonological
and phonics skills instruction to their own young children, who are at risk for reading
difficulties, and whether any positive changes in child attitude and parent confidence
occur as a result of the instruction. Early phonological and phonics skills instruction is
known to be effective for children at-risk for reading difficulties, but is not always
provided in schools. Two groups of families (experimental and "waiting list" control)
used a home program (providing phonological and phonics skills instruction, and Paired
Reading guidance) for two separate, daily, ten-minute activity and reading sessions, for
ten weeks. The program also included a process to address reading motivation, whereby
parents used the language of strategies of mediation based on Vygotsky's social learning
theories. Significant Time by Group interaction effects were calculated for Word Attack
and Phoneme Deletion (Initial Sound). Parent and child pre-test and post-test
questionnaires explored changes in motivation and attitude to reading. There were
significant positive changes in child attitude to reading, and parent perceptions of
progress. Small but significant correlations were also found between parent perceptions
and treatment integrity, and between treatment integrity and achievement outcomes. It
was concluded that the study provides limited support for the idea that parents of grade 1
children at-risk for reading difficulties can give instruction effectively when given
detailed information about all three aspects of early reading. / Arts, Faculty of / Psychology, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/15136 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Ottley, Pamela M. |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Format | 8603317 bytes, application/pdf |
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