Reading interest and family literacy practices from prekindergarten to kindergarten: Contributions from a cross-lagged analysis

Most studies investigating the relationship between children’s reading interest and their parents’ literacy practices have assumed that it is the latter that sparks the former. Nevertheless, the transactional model of development (Sameroff, 2010) suggests that the relationship might run the other way as well. This research examined how children’s reading interest (as reported by their parents) and parents’ literacy practices remain stable or...