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Journal Article The impact of children's perception of a father's and mother's support on children's quality of relationship with their classroom teacher was examined in a sample of 51 third and fourth grade Asian children rated by their teachers as aggressive. Children's perception of a father's support predicted teacher-ratings in all three areas of the teacher-student relationship (instrumental help, satisfaction, and conflict) but children's perception of a mother's support did not. This adds to a gradually expanding research base documenting the benefits of fatherly support across selected and…
This Partnership for Reading publication is designed to help parents teach their children how to read. It describes strategies proven to work by the most rigorous scientific research available on the teaching of reading. The research that confirmed the effectiveness of these strategies used systematic, empirical methods drawn from observation or experiment; involved rigorous data analyses to test its hypotheses and justify its conclusions; produced valid data across multiple evaluators and observations; and was accepted by a peer-reviewed journal or approved by a panel of independent experts…
This "playbook" offers dads some simple skills to use in order to help their kids be even better readers such as knowing what kinds of questions to ask when reading a story together. It discusses how parents can help by building five skills that kids need to become readers-- phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. It also includes stories from 20 dads on how they helped their kids learn to read.
This InfoSheet includes 10 steps for involving fathers in the early literacy development of their children. (Author abstract modified)
