Influence of Home Language Environment on Reading Status in Malayalam among Grade 4 Students in Kerala

This study administered the Test of Reading Fluency and Pronunciation, Test of Reading Comprehension, and Scale of Home Language Environment in a sample of 156 grade 4 students in Kerala. Falling below the 25th percentile on any two of the three dimensions of reading achievement viz., reading fluency, reading comprehension, and pronunciation, along with teacher identification of the student as reading difficult was used to categorize them as Reading difficult (RD) and Normal Readers. It was found that if the parent doesn't enquire about co-curricular activities in school, it doesn't make the child write Malayalam copy book, does not make the child write a diary, doesn't make the child read textbooks regularly and doesn't make the child read other books than textbooks 6/10 are prone to be an RD by grade 4.