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A Model of the Home Literacy Environment and Family Risk of Reading Difficulty in Relation to Children's Preschool Emergent Literacy
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Sara Esmaeeli – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
This study extends the research on the preschool "home literacy environment" (HLE) in the context of the family risk (FR) of reading disability (RD) by examining a multiple-deficit model of RD. A total of 1,171 six-year-old Norwegian children were assessed at school entry, the onset of formal reading instruction in Norway. Their parents…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy, Family Environment, Reading Difficulties
Teaching the Reading Life: Making the Invisible Visible
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Havran, Marie Putnam – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2020
Teachers can foster a love of reading in their students by regularly modeling their own reading lives. This sort of modeling involves both helping students to develop reading skills and sharing personal stories that illustrate the importance of reading in adulthood. The present study describes the impact of purposefully sharing my personal reading…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Suburban Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students
Developmental Relations between Home Literacy Environment, Reading Interest, and Reading Skills: Evidence from a 3-Year Longitudinal Study
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Georgiou, George K.; Inoue, Tomohiro; Parrila, Rauno – Child Development, 2021
We examined the bidirectional relations between home literacy environment, reading interest, and children's emergent literacy and reading skills in a sample of 172 English-speaking Canadian children (M[subscript age] = 75.87 months) followed from Grade 1 to Grade 3. Results of cross-lagged analysis revealed that the reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Correlation, Reading Interests, Emergent Literacy
From Surviving to Thriving: Four Research-Based Principles to Build Students' Reading Interest
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Springer, Sheree E.; Harris, Samantha; Dole, Janice A. – Reading Teacher, 2017
In an educational climate in which many teachers may feel the tension between achieving grade-level literacy standards and creating lifelong readers, interest can be a powerful mediator that impacts students' cognitive and affective experiences with reading. This practical article presents four research-based principles of reading…
Descriptors: Reading Interests, Reading Motivation, Student Interests, Reading Attitudes
Learning to Read in a Classroom Defined by RTI: 4 Case Studies
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Caloia, Rachel A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Four case studies informed by phenomenology were conducted using classroom observations and interviews with children, parents, and teachers to explore how children experienced the phenomenon of learning to read in one first-grade classroom defined by RTI policy. Charmaz's (2006) grounded coding model involving initial, focused, and theoretical…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Student Experience
Patterns of Word Reading Skill, Interest and Self-Concept of Ability
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Viljaranta, Jaana; Kiuru, Noona; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Silinskas, Gintautas; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Educational Psychology, 2017
The majority of previous research on academic skills, self-concept of ability and interest has deployed the variable-oriented approach and focused on self-concept, or ability, or interest only. This study examined the patterns and dynamics of pattern change in Finnish children's word reading skill, self-concept of ability and interest from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Self Concept, Reading Ability