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Parent can encourage children-s literacy through various activities at home. The research aims to investigate home literacy environment and children-s literacy skills.The method used in this research is survey. A number of 200 children of first grade of elementary school were recruited as the samples. Parents of these children completed a questionnaire about homeliteracy environment which consists of literacy resources at home, parental involvement which stimulates children, activities and learning resource outside, and emosional situation. On the other hand, children-s literacy was directly assessed by using test. The data is processed by using multiple regression. The results of the reseach revealed significant correlations between homeliteracy environment and children-s literacy skills. It also showed thatrich home literacy activities can improve childrens interest tohave better reading skills, language development, letter knowledge, and knowledge of print concepts.