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Improving Reading Instruction and Students' Reading Skills in the Early Grades: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Haiti
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Guzmán, Juan Carlos; Schuenke-Lucien, Kate; D'Agostino, Anthony J.; Berends, Mark; Elliot, Andrew J. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
In Haiti, 49% of students cannot read a single word in Creole by the time they start grade 3, which is reflective of a broader learning crisis in low-income and fragile contexts. Read to Learn, an early-grade literacy intervention, was implemented and evaluated from fall 2014 through spring 2016 with the aim of improving students' reading skills.…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Instructional Improvement, Reading Improvement, Emergent Literacy
Effects of Story Read-Aloud Lessons on Literacy Development in the Early Grades: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
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Moussa, Wael; Koester, Emily – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
Research has indicated that reading aloud to young students can enhance their foundational reading skills and their reading motivation, but such research has been lacking in African contexts. In this study, we assessed the efficacy of story read-aloud lessons in improving students' foundational reading skills in Nigeria. The experiment took place…
Descriptors: Story Reading, Oral Reading, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Instruction