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Crawford, Michael F.; Rutkowski, David; Rutkowski, Leslie – World Bank, 2023
This paper provides results from the randomized control trial project, Promoting Development and Home Reading of Supplementary Texts for Young Readers in Cambodia. One control and three treatment groups were assessed on how literacy and reading habits changed when households were provided a variety of high-quality and low-cost early reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2023
A sample of parents in Saudi Arabia was surveyed to find out the reading technologies that children under the age of 12 use, children's digital reading habits and interests, parents' roles in encouraging the children to read digitally, the effects of digital reading on children's reading ability, and to compare digital reading before, during and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Habits, Children, Preadolescents
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Sun, Baoqi; Loh, Chin Ee; O'Brien, Beth Ann; Silver, Rita Elaine – AERA Open, 2021
Long-term school absences during pandemic lockdowns may result in learning gains and losses much like the summer reading loss, but little is known about the actual effects of such lockdowns. This mixed-methods study examined changes in reading enjoyment, amount and resources in three groups of bilingual children--English-Chinese, English-Malay,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Elementary School Students
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Sun, Xin; Marks, Rebecca A.; Eggleston, Rachel L.; Zhang, Kehui; Lau, Chikyi; Yu, Chi-Lin; Nickerson, Nia; Kovelman, Ioulia – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Children who speak one language at home and a different language at school may be at higher risk of falling behind in their academic achievement when schooling is disrupted. The present study examined the effects of COVID-19-related school disruptions on English language and literacy development among monolingual and bilingual children in the US.…
Descriptors: Literacy, COVID-19, Pandemics, Spanish
Best, Emily; Clark, Christina – National Literacy Trust, 2020
This report outlines findings from the National Literacy Trust's tenth Annual Literacy Survey relating to children and young people's reading in 2020, in addition to findings from the Trust's survey of children and young people's reading during the COVID-19 lockdown. 58,346 children and young people aged 9 to 18 in the UK took part in the Annual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Adolescents, Age Groups