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Morgan, Paul L.; Farkas, George; Wu, Qiong – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2012
We investigated whether being poorly skilled in reading contributes to children's reported feelings of anger, distractibility, anxiety, sadness, loneliness, and social isolation. Data were analyzed from a longitudinal subsample of children (N = 3,308) participating in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort. Multilevel logistic…
Descriptors: Reading Failure, Reading Difficulties, Psychological Patterns, Attention Control
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Williams, Bronwyn T. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2007
Alarms about a "literacy crisis" among young people have been sounded on a regular basis for more than a century. Yet as each generation of students matures, it is able to accomplish the reading and writing tasks necessary for society to continue. Perhaps then, rather than sounding more alarms, it is time to consider what anxieties, particularly…
Descriptors: Cultural Literacy, Anxiety, Etiology, Program Attitudes