Browsing UiS Brage by Author "Esmaeeli, Zahra"
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Children with and without Family Risk of Reading Difficulties: Emergent literacy, home literacy environment at onset of formal reading instruction, and literacy skills after two years of schooling
Esmaeeli, Zahra (PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2018-06)Having a parent with reading difficulties, known as family risk, puts a child at high risk of impaired emergent literacy before the onset of reading instruction, and later reading difficulties at school. Another line of ... -
Contribution of family risk, emergent literacy and environmental protective factors in children’s reading difficulties at the end of second-grade
Esmaeeli, Zahra; Kyle, Fiona E.; Lundetræ, Kjersti (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-05)It is well established that emergent literacy is a strong predictor of later reading difficulties, and that the home literacy environment plays an important role in the development of children’s preschool emergent literacy ... -
What can Parents’ Self-report of Reading Difficulties Tell Us about Their Children’s Emergent Literacy at School Entry?
Esmaeeli, Zahra; Lundetræ, Kjersti; Kyle, Fiona (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Research has linked family risk (FR) of reading difficulties (RD) with children's difficulties in emergent literacy development. This study is the first to apply parents' self-report of RD as a proxy for FR in a large ...