ABSTRACT
This chapter examines interventions as they relate to various aspects of parental engagement with children's learning. Different authors divide the themes around school-led interventions differently, but there are common elements among them all. In an overlap with the concept of family learning, a particularly successful intervention was provided by the Basic Skills Agency in the mid-1990s, working on family literacy. Parental engagement with children's reading is one of the more researched areas of parental engagement, particularly in relation to young children and the early stages of reading and literacy. Parental engagement in children's learning of mathematics is perhaps more complicated than parental engagement in many other areas of learning. At a much earlier stage of development, there is a positive relationship between the support parents gave their children in the development of language (particularly reading to children) and children's developmental and behavioural development at months of age.
