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ArticleJournal of educational psychology2026

Supporting Parents to Support Children: A U.K. Randomized Controlled Trial Testing a Text Message Intervention to Cultivate the Home Learning Environment.

Fionnuala O'Reilly, Susanna Loeb, Alice Farrell, Gaia Scerif

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Article in Journal of educational psychology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Fionnuala O'ReillyDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.
Susanna LoebStanford Graduate School of Education.
Alice FarrellDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero, HM Government, London, United Kingdom.
Gaia ScerifDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.ORCID 0000-0002-6371-8875

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A stimulating and supportive home learning environment helps children to be cognitively and emotionally ready to learn by age 5. Despite the growing availability of parenting resources, the attainment gap between affluent and disadvantaged families continues to widen across many developed nations. Tips by Text is a 12-month text message program originally developed in the United States to help parents integrate developmental activities into daily routines with their children. Designed for 4- to 5-year-olds, the messages aim to support language, literacy, numeracy, and socioemotional skills. We adapted and tested the Tips by Text program in a large-scale randomized controlled trial involving 109 schools in England from 2019 to 2021 (

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home learning environmentlanguageparentssocioemotional skillstext message

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PMID41356706
PMCPMC12680085

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