Reading to children in the family: An ivestigation of reasons, parametres and practices
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The study describes home reading situations in Czech families. The purpose was to identify the parents’ reasons for reading to children, frequency of reading, and reading practices of parents and children. The sample consisted of 240 respondents – parents whose children attended preschool. A questionnaire of 52 items, which were aggregated to 17 variables, was used to gather data. The basic data about reading to children are favourable. Most of the parents read to children frequently, the reading session is relatively long and they began to read before the child was two years old. Children possess at least 30 books. High averages were identified in developmental and emotional reasons of reading to children. Parents facilitate the child’s comprehension of stories, they support thinking about the story characters and stimulate the child to retell the story. However, they infrequently use shared play with letters, words or numbers. The specific perspective of this study was child’s agentic behaviour in reading sessions, i.e., the child’s ability to initiate and perform intentional behaviour in reading situations. Children were much interested in reading, they demonstrated proactive behaviour, produced independent narrations of the stories, and they were able to monitor their parents’ reading aloud.
preliteracy; reading with child; parent-child dyad; parents’ reading practices; child’s reading practices
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