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Home and school interventions aided at-risk students’ literacy during Covid-19 : a longitudinal analysis
Dunn, Kristy Georgiou, George K. Inoue, Tomohiro Savage, Robert Parrila, Rauno
Dunn, Kristy
Georgiou, George K.
Inoue, Tomohiro
Savage, Robert
Parrila, Rauno
Abstract
We examined whether different parent- and teacher-related factors had an effect on at-risk children’s reading development during the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Seventy Grade 1 English-speaking Canadian children (28 females, 42 males; Mage = 6.60, SD = 0.46) who were at-risk for reading difficulties were administered word and pseudoword reading, nonverbal IQ, and phonological awareness tasks before the school closures (February 2020; Time 1). Reading tasks were administered again when they returned to school in September 2020 (Time 2). In April-May 2020, their parents (n = 70) and teachers (n = 40) filled out a questionnaire on the home literacy environment and the frequency of teaching reading and
providing reading materials, respectively. Results of multilevel regression analyses showed that children’s reading enjoyment and home learning activities predicted both word and pseudoword reading at Time 2. Differentiation of instruction for struggling readers also predicted children’s pseudoword reading at Time 2. These findings reinforce the important role of parents in their children’s early reading development particularly when the typical agents of instruction (i.e., teachers) have less time and opportunities to interact with their students because of the pandemic.
Keywords
Covid-19, Differentiation, Home learning environment, Reading, Reading enjoyment, Self-efficacy
Date
2023
Type
Journal article
Journal
Book
Volume
36
Issue
2
Page Range
449-466
Article Number
ACU Department
Faculty of Education and Arts
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© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022