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Ertem, Ihsan Seyit – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2013
The purpose of this research was to examine the role of personalized and non-personalized online texts on elementary school fifth grade students' comprehension and their attitudes toward reading. Participants were 47 fifth-grade students from a rural elementary school in north Florida. The subjects were randomly assigned into two (personalized…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Grade 5, Student Attitudes
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Williams, Lunetta M. – Journal of Educational Research, 2008
The author identified books most often selected among a sample of economically disadvantaged Black 8- to 12-year-old participants (N = 293) and investigated reasons participants offered for choosing specific books. Participants self-selected books at a book fair providing 412 books. The most commonly selected books supplied descriptive data.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Elementary School Students, Economically Disadvantaged, Books