Parent Involvement in Children Reading Development

Abstract

The research was aimed to develop home reading programs for parent to tutor the children learn to read at home. The development procedure owed the work of Borg and Gall’s research and development model. Tryout and implementation were conducted in a Kindergarten School in Bogor, Indonesia. The data was collected through observation, interview and checklist.  The product was considerably feasible referred to the judgments of five experienced kindergarten teachers, three early childhood education and 15 parents participating in the implementation.   It was concluded that the model contributed to overcome the problem encountered by both parents and kindergarten teachers in how to help children learn to read at home.