Research on family-implemented literacy interventions for school-aged children is sparse and concentrated in early elementary grades, with no studies of older children meeting inclusion criteria¶

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q3 i? Of 22 included studies, all involved elementary students (grades K-7 at most), 18 primarily involved grades K-2, and all but two were published before 2017; the meta-analysis revealed a paucity of research, especially for older children. → Dahl-Leonard 2025

Evidence¶

Dahl-Leonard 2025¶

Dahl-Leonard, K., Hall, C., Cho, E., Capin, P., Roberts, G. J., Kehoe, K. F., Haring, C., Peacott, D., & Demchak, A. (2025). Examining the Effects of Family-Implemented Literacy Interventions for School-Aged Children: A Meta-Analysis. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-025-09985-3

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Descriptive analysis of the final corpus of 22 studies (12 group design, 10 SCED) identified via PRISMA-guided searches of ERIC, PsycINFO, and ProQuest (2000–2024). The article states all studies "included only elementary students" except one, and that 18 studies primarily involved grades K-2. Ten of the 22 were doctoral dissertations.

"Despite the fact that our search and inclusion criterion allowed for study participants to be in Grades K-12, all studies that met inclusion criteria included only elementary students, except for one group design study that had participants in Grades 2–7 (Marquis, 2013)."

Discussion¶

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