Parental Involvement on Kindergarten Literacy Development in Cervantes District, Ilocos Sur

AUTHOR(S)

Rodilyn C. Angligen

ABSTRACT

This study determined the level of parental involvement on literacy development of kindergarten along learning to read, early writing and early counting. The descriptive correlational analysis was used as the research design and the researcher used the questionnaire as the main tool in gathering data where 332 kindergarten parents of Cervantes District served as respondents. Frequency count, percentages, mean values and Pearson r were used in the analysis and interpretation of data gathered. Data processing was done through the use of computer. The conclusions revealed that the profile of the respondents varied as to their sex, age, civil status, educational attainment, economic status, primary language spoken at home, and sex of the child; the level of parental involvement on literacy development of kindergarten in Cervantes District along learning to read, early writing, and early counting are moderately involved, and; there is a significant relationship between the profile of the respondents along primary language spoken at home and parental involvement of kindergarten on learning to count. Sex, age, civil status, educational attainment, and economic status has no significant relationship along the dimensions considered.
The following recommendations were offered; as a parent, differences of sex, age, civil status, educational attainment, economic status, primary language spoken at home and sex of the child sould not affect their involvement, duties and responsibilities to the literacy development of a child; parents should alot atleast 30-45 minutes a day for their reading, writing and counting session. They will attend trainings and seminars on some of the strategies and activities to be applied t home in reading, writing, counting or may apply reward over punishment or punishment over reward. They may also use gudgets like cellphones, tablets, laptops, desktops to introduce to them the phonics and rhyming number but with their strict guidance, and; both parents will involve theirselves on the literacy development of their children because the strategies of a mother and father are different and the learning styles of children are different, too. Parents will learn the medium of instruction used at school to teach their children.