Benefits of Access to Books in the Home:
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Access to Books (Family and Community Engagement Research Compendium, 2013)
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Kids and Family Reading Report (Kids and Family Reading Report, 6th Edition, Scholastic, 2017)
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​Scholarly Culture and Academic Performance in 42 Nations (M. D. R. Evans, Jonathan Kelley, Joanna Sikora, 2014)
Adult and Family Literacy:
Adult Literacy in America: A First Look at the Results of the National Adult Literacy Survey (Kirsch et al., 2002)
Kids & Family Reading Report: The Rise of Read-Aloud (Scholastic 2019)
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Make Every Student Count: How Collaboration among Families, Schools, and Communities Ensures Student Success (Lois Bridges, PhD., 2013)
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Meta Analysis of the Studies of High Performing Family Literacy Programs (Levesque and the National Center for Families Learning, 2013)
Reach Higher, America: Overcoming Crisis in the U.S. Workforce (National Commission on Adult Literacy, 2008)
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Teaching by Listening: The Importance of Adult-Child Conversations to Language Development (Zimmerman, 2009)
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The Effect of Family Literacy Interventions on Children’s Acquisition of Reading (National Center for Family Literacy, 2006)
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How Poverty Impacts Literacy:
Book Deserts: The Consequence of Income Segregation on Children's Access to Print (Neuman and Moland, 2016)
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Can Intensive Early Education Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps? (Duncan and Sojourner, 2014)
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Pre K - Grade 3: Which Reading and Literacy Practices Matter Most? (Ryan, 2010)
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Socioeconomic Disadvantage, School Attendance, and Early Cognitive Development: The Differential Effects of Social Exposure (Ready, 2010)
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The Impact of Poverty on the Development of Brain Networks (Lipina and Posner, 2012)