6. Research shows that a mother’s level of education is one of the most important factors influencing children’s reading levels and other school achievements.
7. It is proven that more highly educated mothers have greater success in providing children with the cognitive and language skills that contribute to early success in school.
8. Research also proves that children of mothers with high levels of education stay in school longer that children of mothers with low levels of education.
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10. By the time children from middle-income families with well-educated parents are in third grade, they know about 12,000 words. Third grade children from low-income families with undereducated parents who don’t talk to them very much have vocabularies of around 4,000 words, one-third as many words as their middle-income peers…
11. Low-literate parents are more likely to exert a positive influence on their children’s academic achievement when they are able to enhance their own literacy skills as well.
18. Research shows that parent involvement has a positive effect on children’s reading acquisition.
19. Children who read to their parents on a regular basis made greater gains than children receiving an equivalent amount of extra reading instruction by reading specialists at school .
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