TY - JOUR
T1 - The effects of home reading activities during preschool and Grade 4 on children's reading performance in Chinese and English in Hong Kong
AU - Kam Tse, Shek
AU - Zhu, Yu
AU - Yan Hui, Sau
AU - Ng, Hung Wai
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Australian Council for Educational Research.
PY - 2017/4/1
Y1 - 2017/4/1
N2 - The English and Chinese reading proficiency of 1376 Grade 4 students in 24 Hong Kong primary schools were assessed using measures developed for the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study. Students' parents provided information about home reading activities (HRA) aimed at supporting their children's reading prior to them entering school ("early home reading activities", EHRA) and during Grade 4 ("home reading activities"). Results indicated that EHRA was a stronger predictor of reading performance in both Chinese and English than HRA. Moreover, 'typical' HRA such as reading books, telling stories and singing songs were found to be predictive of reading performance in both Chinese and English. In English, in addition, playing word games or character puzzles were also activities beneficial to reading performance. Together, these results provide evidence for the beneficial effects of traditional early childhood activities at home such as book reading, telling stories and singing songs for reading performance in later primary school in children's first as well as second language.
AB - The English and Chinese reading proficiency of 1376 Grade 4 students in 24 Hong Kong primary schools were assessed using measures developed for the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study. Students' parents provided information about home reading activities (HRA) aimed at supporting their children's reading prior to them entering school ("early home reading activities", EHRA) and during Grade 4 ("home reading activities"). Results indicated that EHRA was a stronger predictor of reading performance in both Chinese and English than HRA. Moreover, 'typical' HRA such as reading books, telling stories and singing songs were found to be predictive of reading performance in both Chinese and English. In English, in addition, playing word games or character puzzles were also activities beneficial to reading performance. Together, these results provide evidence for the beneficial effects of traditional early childhood activities at home such as book reading, telling stories and singing songs for reading performance in later primary school in children's first as well as second language.
KW - Chinese
KW - early childhood
KW - English
KW - parent involvement
KW - primary school students
KW - reading achievement
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85018735327&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0004944116689093
DO - 10.1177/0004944116689093
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85018735327
SN - 0004-9441
VL - 61
SP - 5
EP - 23
JO - Australian Journal of Education
JF - Australian Journal of Education
IS - 1
ER -