PARENTAL INTERACTIONAL SUPPORT: A PARADIGM FOR MEETING READING COMPREHENSION NEEDS OF A CHILD
Keywords:
Parents, Interactional support, Environment, Reading comprehensionAbstract
Parental Interactional Support is needed and expected. Interactional support if harnessed produces high reading comprehension that enables high achievement in all school subjects. Adults, especially parents in the home are the first set of teachers a child is exposed. They are expected to help children feel at home when reading. This paper proposes that parental interactional support can be highly effective to foster reading comprehension since home is the first environment to which a child is born. It is the environment he/she is quite familiar with, feels more at ease in as well as most confident to be his/her real self. It is the most natural milieu a child is surrounded and influenced by. If a child could be given the necessary interactional support by both parents when available, to meet the comprehension needs of the individual child would not be far-fetched. Comprehension needs of the child should be met because statistics have shown that 250 million children in Nigeria can not read. A child that cannot read, can definitely not read to comprehend. This paper takes a look at what parental interactional support entails, why parents do not give interactional support and the need to give interactional support to children in reading comprehension. It also explores the implications of interactional support on meeting the reading comprehension needs of a child. Ways to be used to achieve parental interactional support such as parents giving emotional security, close attachment, personal demonstration through active reading, enabling psychological environment, verbal input, parental scaffolding, and use of mother tongue as well as provision of comfortable reading areas and materials were also considered. Part of the recommendations made were that parents should be available to spend time with their children at home and be ready to be resource persons to the schools.
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