This University of Utah study on the influence of early literacy outreach for low-income Latino families, finds that young English language learners (ELLs) were more proficient on reading measures prior to and after kindergarten when their mothers began reading to them when they were 6 months old. Low-income mothers who participated in the outreach program were more likely to read to their children than those that did not ??? 59 percent compared to 36 percent.
