Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Blog 5

Revised research questions


Topic: How reading influences foreign and native born Preschool, Pre-K, Kindergarten children?

Questions:

1. Do you read to your children?
2. What were parents values, roles in deciding to read to their children?
3. What language do you speak at home?
4. In what language do foreign born parents prefer to read to their 
    children? What is the reason for that preference?
5. How old were the children when the parents began to read to them?
    (e.g. everynight, once a week)
6. What kinds of books, stories did the parents read?
7. At what time did the parents read to the child? (morning, evening)
8. Did the child prefer to be read to in a group or alone?
9. How old were the children when they began to read by themselves?
10. Did the parents notice reading ability in the child?
11. Did he/she recognize any words in the story?
12. Was the child able to answer questions about the story?
13. How did the parental reading help the child to develop his/her own 
      reading skills and writing skills?
14. Did he/she copy words from the book? When? While being read to or 
      after?
15. Was the child able to retell the story?
16. What books or stories does a teenager recall that was read ti him/her?
17. What books or stories does a teenager recall that he/she read in 
       primary school?
18. Did reading to children in their own language help them to become 
       proficient in English?





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