“…Thus, educators can best prevent literacy problems and interrelated social problems through interventions that help parents adopt the behaviors and attitudes characterizing high-achieving mainstream families. Specifically, parents learn child-rearing practices and oral and written literacy practices that are associated with language and literacy development and academic achievement such as dialogic book reading, school involvement, helping with homework, and specific parenting strategies (e.g., Burchinal, Peisner-Feinberg, Pianta, & Howes, 2002;Bus, van Ijzendoorn, & Pellegrini, 1995;Hoover-Dempsey et al, 2001;Lonigan & Whitehurst, 1998;Morrow & Young, 1997;Sénéchal, LeFevre, Thomas, & Daley, 1998;Snow, Barnes, Chandler, Goodman, & Hemphill, 1991). Parents often appreciate the new strategies and knowledge they learn in such programs (L. M. Phillips, Hayden, & Norris, 2006).…”