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Zambrana, Katherine A.; Hart, Katie C.; Maharaj, Andre; Cheatham-Johnson, Randi J.; Waguespack, Angela – School Psychology, 2019
Objective: Grounded in Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler's theoretical model of parents' motivations for involvement in their children's education, the aim of this study was to examine the associations between Latino parents' perceptions of involvement and the home literacy environment, as well as children's oral reading fluency (ORF). We further…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Parent Participation, Family Literacy, Oral Reading
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Kim, James S.; Guryan, Jonathan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
The effects of a voluntary summer reading intervention with and without a parent training component were evaluated with a sample of low-income Latino children from language minority families. During the last month of 4th grade, 370 children were pretested on a measure of reading comprehension and vocabulary and were randomly assigned to (a) a…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Intervention