A positive home environment helps prepare students to be ready and able to learn. According to Hill (2015), the parent-child relationship characterized by nurturing, acceptance and encouragement, as well as the parents' response to the child's needs, is related to positive academic performance. Perceptual factors, such as visual perception, visual discrimination, phonological processing, and auditory perception could influence students' reading performance. Students who have some problem with perception usually have difficulty reading. Narka (1997) stated that children with perceptual problems cannot interpret sensations normally. These students suffer from auditory processing problems, visual perception problems, or attention deficit disorder, or demonstrate difficulty following a sequence of verbal directions. Although educational and noneducational factors that might influence students' reading performance seem like two different categories, some factors overlap. Teachers need to consider all these facts to help students improve their reading ability and increase their reading performance
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