This review synthesizes findings from the literature about the impact of father involvement on
children's literacy and language outcomes. Various proximal and distal factors influence …

Poor children across the world live in communities spanning the rural to urban continuum.
The United States has witnessed a transformation in the spatial location of poverty, with poor …

Studies have shown that distal family risk factors like poverty and maternal education are
strongly related to children's early language development. Yet, few studies have examined …

The maternal language input literature suggests that mothers with more education use a
greater quantity and complexity of language with their young children compared to mothers …

This study examined whether a minimum level of preschool quality (threshold) is needed in
order for a relationship to exist between preschool quality and children's academic …

This study evaluated whether the Targeted Reading Intervention (TRI), a classroom teacher
professional development program delivered through webcam technology literacy coaching …

Factors such as weak early literacy skills and living in poverty may put young students at risk
for reading disabilities. While home literacy activities and access to literacy materials have …

The urban–rural continuum provides unique contexts for development. Differences in access
to resources and childrearing norms and practices in urban, suburban, and rural areas may …

Early literacy skills play an important role in children's success in school. Especially
important to better literacy skills may be the quality of the classroom environment (emotional …

Although publicly-funded prekindergarten (pre-k) programs have been designed to promote
children's school readiness, programs have tended to support early literacy skills to a …