The effects of a community-based literacy program: One-year follow-up findings
β Scribed by Terry A. Cronan; Lynda B. Brooks; Katherine Kilpatrick; Silvia M. Bigatti; Steve Tally
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 88 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4392
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β¦ Synopsis
Researchers have become increasingly concerned about whether behaviors that have been successfully changed through intervention programs are maintained after completion of the intervention. Project PRIMER (Producing Infant/Mother Ethnic Readers) is a community-based program designed to teach low-income parents techniques for promoting literacy at home. The initial effects of Project PRIMER were that parents who were assigned to the intervention group increased their literacy behaviors significantly more than parents in the control group, and children in the
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