Evaluating the impact of book gifting on the reading behaviours of parents on young children

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Tura, F. ORCID: 0000-0002-6683-2438, Wood, C. ORCID: 0000-0003-1492-6501, Thompson, R. ORCID: 0000-0003-4220-3730 and Lushey, C. ORCID: 0000-0003-1839-8611, 2021. Evaluating the impact of book gifting on the reading behaviours of parents on young children. Early Years. ISSN 0957-5146

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2021.1908234

Abstract

We report an evaluation of a book gifting scheme (the Dolly Parton Imagination Library; DPIL) that targeted families from disadvantaged areas. We considered the impact that length of participation had on children’s interest in literacy-related activities, the frequency of parent-child reading interactions, duration of reading, and whether the parents read with their child daily (N=286). We also compared these families to a group of non-participating families from the same city (N=197). We found that families registered with DPIL for a year or more reported higher frequencies of parent-child interactions when reading than the non-DPIL group, and were more likely to read with their children on a daily basis than those registered with DPIL for less than a year. We suggest that book gifting schemes need to be long term in order to positively influence home literacy environments.

Item Type:

Journal article

Publication Title:

Early Years

Creators:

Tura, F., Wood, C., Thompson, R. and Lushey, C.

Publisher:

Routledge

Date:

11 April 2021

ISSN:

0957-5146