Examining Associations between the Home Literacy Environment, Executive Function, and School Readiness

Research Findings: The purpose of the current study was to investigate direct associations between the home literacy environment (HLE) and preschool children’s executive function (EF), academic readiness, and social-emotional competence and to explore the indirect association between the HLE and academic and social-emotional outcomes working through children’s EF. The participants were 102 preschool children from the Midwestern region of the...