The Reading House 

APLL PEEL - Parents Engaging in Early Literacy: Impact on Emergent Literacy Skills and Parent Engagement

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, in 2019, only 28% of Alabama fourth graders were reading at or above proficient. This literacy grant supports an 8-week parent-training program conducted via telecoaching. This project will be assessing mothers' interactions with their children while joint book reading after 2 groups of mothers obtain different interventions. One group of parents of 3 to 6 year old children will facilitate activities in the home that foster Print/Book Knowledge and Phonological Awareness. A second group of parents will facilitate Vocabulary and Story Grammar skills. Children’s emergent literacy and spoken language skills and parents’ implementation of the reading strategies will be measured. A successful pilot can lead to a follow-up, broader community-based program. This is a current project in the lab being implemented by Dr. Brenda Beverly and Dr. Victoria Henbest.

This project was recently featured on Phi Kappa Phi's Blog:  https://www.phikappaphi.org/about/news/news-landing/2020/09/23/literacy-spotlight-tele-coaching-for-home-early-literacy-practices#.X2uLN2hKjIU