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 to positively influence home literacy environments.

摘要

我们报告了一项针对贫困地区家庭的赠书计划（Dolly Parton Imagination Library；DPIL）的评估。我们考虑了参与时间长短对儿童对扫盲相关活动的兴趣、亲子阅读互动的频率、阅读持续时间以及父母是否每天与孩子一起阅读 (N = 286) 的影响。我们还将这些家庭与来自同一城市的一组非参与家庭 (N = 197) 进行了比较。我们发现，与未注册 DPIL 的家庭相比，注册 DPIL 一年或更长时间的家庭在阅读时的亲子互动频率更高，而且与注册 DPIL 不到一年的家庭相比，他们更有可能每天与孩子一起阅读一年。