Abstract
ABSTRACT Purpose: to verify family literacy practices with preschoolers from a public school in a municipality of the Northeast Region of Brazil. Methods: 21 parents/guardians of pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students from a public school participated in this study. A questionnaire with 18 items on the parents’/guardians’ participation in family literacy practices was develop for this research. The resulting data underwent descriptive and inferential analysis, with the significance level set at 5%. Results: the preschoolers’ mean age was 69 months, and that of the parents/guardians who answered the questionnaire was 31 years. The educational level of most parents/guardians was either high school or unfinished middle school. A significant, positive relationship, between the parents’/guardians’ educational level and the following questionnaire items was seen: paying attention to the children when they spoke, calling their attention to the sound of letters and words, and teaching/encouraging them to write their names. Conclusion: family literacy practices are not commonly developed in the culture of the Northeast Region of Brazil, and when so, most of them are similar to activities taught at school. There was also a weak correlation between the parents’/guardians’ educational level and the family literacy practices.
Highlights
Guaranteeing child health involves health actions and services aimed at ensuring the right to life and well-being, considering social determinants and conditioning factors
The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculdade Tiradentes in Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Brazil, under protocol number 4.375.509
The research focused on the 45 parents/ guardians of preschoolers attending pre-kindergarten and kindergarten at the José Rodovalho Municipal School, located in Candeias, a neighborhood of the municipality of Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Pernambuco, Brazil
Summary
Guaranteeing child health involves health actions and services aimed at ensuring the right to life and well-being, considering social determinants and conditioning factors. One of the measures to provide these aspects is in primary health care, which promotes and attentively follows up the children’s full growth and comprehensive development, in early childhood. Health promotion involves enabling people regarding their life habits, in the biological aspect and the broader concept of health[2]. It focuses on the person’s comprehensive development and care, encompassing human communication[3,4]. Carrying out promotion and prevention actions related to communication changes is greatly important to proper language development. The inclusion of literacy practices in everyday family life is one of the health promotion strategies that help develop language[5]. Literacy is the ability to put reading, writing, and mathematics skills into practice in day-to-day situations – which is different from learning to read and write, as this is the process of acquiring such skills[6]
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