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Grinder and Blaire Willson Toso  \nIntroduction  \nParent involvement in children’s language and literacy development is a continuum. Parents enhance their newborn baby’s language and vocabulary growth, whereas with older children parents are involved in school and provide support by engaging in learning activities such as assisting with homework. Parent involvement is an important part of children’s growth and development and can be vital to their academic success. Some parents need guidance on how to become involved with their child to support school literacy. In fact, a primary reason adults enroll in family literacy programs is to help their child be successful in school (Brizius & Foster, 1993, as cited in DebruinParecki, 2009) . These programs are poised to assist parents in accomplishing this goal.  \n“Parent education,”“parent training,” and “parent interventions” are often used interchangeably. However, there is a subtle distinction among these terms: parent training and interventions are one typeof parent education. Parent trainings and interventions teach specific skills, whereas parent education provides general information about a topic. Current research indicates that merely educating parents about what todo and giving general suggestions may not be enough; parents may need explicit instruction to help them learn and practice how to work with their children to achieve greater academic success.  \nThe purpose of this guide is to inform family literacy practitioners and other educators who work with families about the benefits of targeted skill training for parents that move beyond encouraging parents to be involved with their child and to provide examples of such initiatives. This guide outlines the research literature on parent intervention studies, offers cultural and literacy considerations for working with diverse populations, and concludes with suggestions for types of trainings and activities that have proven successful.  \nReview of Parent Interventions  \nParents of young children are encouraged by schools and the media to engage their children in reading and other activities. Parents can provide critical academic support for teachers who feel pressured to meet the demands of preparing preschool children for elementary school or for meeting state standards. Resources are often limited for teaching small groups of children with reading difficulties at any age level. However, these children could receive additional instruction at home if parents knew what was needed to support their children’s language and literacy development (Resetar, Noell, & Pellegrin, 2006) and if parents received specific guidance about what to do (Fitton & Gredler, 1996; Sénéchal & Young, 2008) .  \nEffective parental support could include using storybook reading to teach language, drawing on different strategies such as asking questions and providing additional information about the story (Mol, Bus, de Jong, & Smeets, 2008). However, observational (Britton, Brooks-Gunn, & Griffin, 2006) and audiotaped studies (Huebner & Meltzoff, 2005) have shown that parents often do not initiate these strategies as they read with children. Furthermore, parents may not use story reading time to teach children language and literacy skills, such as letter names and sounds of letters (Phillips, Norris, & Anderson, 2008). Parents can learn through trainings how to effectively engage children in practices that support school-based literacy activities; yet, these home literacy activities need to be  \ninformal, encourage interactions, and stem from research findings (Neuman & Neuman, 2009) .  \nResearch provides evidence of how parent interventions can increase children’s outcomes in literacy-related skills:  \n􀁸 Sénéchal and Young (2008) conducted a metaanalysis that broadly examined three parent interventions and their effect on children’s (K-3) readin","cbCaicy5UNqcaN6n","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicy5UNqcaN6n","pdf",117447,"English","# Introduction\n# Review of Parent Interventions","[{\"question\":\"What is the main purpose of this practitioner’s guide?\",\"answer\":\"It informs family literacy practitioners and educators about benefits of targeted parent skill training and provides examples, research summaries, and recommendations for effective trainings and activities.\"},{\"question\":\"How do “parent education,” “parent training,” and “parent interventions” differ?\",\"answer\":\"They are used interchangeably, but parent training and interventions are a type of parent education. 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