PLAY FACILITIES AS PREDICTORS OF PRE- READING SKILLS ACQUISITION AMONG PRESCHOOLERS IN CHANCHAGA LOCAL GOVERNMENT EDUCATION AREA OF NIGER STATE
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2025
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Kwasu International Journal of Educational Management and Leadership (KIJEMAL)
Abstract
The study investigated play facilities as predictor of pre-reading skills acquisition among
preschoolers in Chanchaga Local Government Area of Niger State. Two research questions
and two null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a correlation survey research
design. The population of the study is 4087 preschoolers in the 29 early child care centers in
all the public primary schools in Chanchaga Local Government Area of Niger state. A
sample of 356 preschoolers were used for the study. Play Facilities Questionnaire (PFQ) and
Pre-reading Skills Acquisition Rating Scale (PSARS) were used for data collection. The two
sets of instrument were face-validated by three experts from Faculty of Education, University
of Nigeria, Nsukka. Internal consistency reliability through Cronbach alpha gave a reliability
coefficient for pre-reading rating scale as 0.886. The internal consistency reliability
coefficients for the clusters of C and D are given as 0.81 and 0.74 respectively in pe-reading
skills. Linear regression was used in answering the research question while t-test associated
with linear regression was used in testing the formulated hypotheses at 0.05 level of
significance. The finding showed that play facilities have a high predictive power on the
acquisition of phonological awareness skills among preschoolers in Chanchaga Local
Government Education Area. The finding showed that play facilities have a significant
predictive power on the phonological awareness skills acquisition among preschoolers in
Chanchaga Local Government Education Area. It was also shown that play facilities have a
high predictive power on the acquisition of vocabulary skills among preschoolers in
Chanchaga Local Government Education Area. Lastly it was found out that play facilities
have a significant predictive power on vocabulary skills acquisition among preschoolers in
Chanchaga Local Government Education Area. Based on the findings and conclusion, the
following recommendations were made, that school authorities should provide audio-visual
materials with phonological contents in order to help preschoolers acquire phonological
awareness skills. Cartoons with word match and pronunciation content should be constantly
used in the teaching of vocabularies in the preschools, for the acquisition of vocabulary
skills.