Family Income Dynamics’ Ramification Pre-Primary School Pupils’ Reading Readiness in Siaya in Kenya
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2021-05
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International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS)
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The role of the family in the life of an individual child
cannot be overemphasized. Available studies globally have
shown that family dynamics have a significant influence on
reading readiness of pupils at the early years of school. Many
attempts have been made by the government and different
organizations to improve reading but not equal effort is put to
promote reading readiness. This study therefore explored family
dynamics that influence reading readiness among pre-primary
school pupils in rural pre-schools in Siaya, Kenya. The study
adopted a descriptive research design which allowed for in-depth
exploration of the study variables. This study was guided by
Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory. The dependent
variable for the study is pre-primary pupils’ reading readiness
while the independent variables were family dynamics. The
target population of the study was pre-primary school pupils in
Siaya County. The study adopted stratified random sampling to
sample schools as public and private pre-primary schools while
purposive sampling was used to select Siaya County for the
study. A sample of 96 public pre-primary school pupils and 16
private pre-primary school pupils were sampled for the study.
Questionnaires and reading readiness checklists were utilized for
data collection. Reading readiness test/checklist analyses
gathered pupils’ reading readiness data while questionnaire was
used to collect data from the parents. Data collected was
analyzed using inferential and descriptive statistics with the help
of statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 20.
Pearson product moment of correlation was used to test the null
hypothesis at p≥0.5
The key findings showed that parental socio-economic statuses
significantly influenced pupils’ reading readiness. The main
recommendation was that the government and the county
government specifically should promote parents’ economic status
to promote reading competence levels among early grade
learners which can be a great boost for the overall academic
performance in higher grades
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Obilloh, O., Githinji, W., & Ouko, H. (2021). Family Income Dynamics’ Ramification Pre-Primary School Pupils’ Reading Readiness in Siaya in Kenya. International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 5(5), 482-484.