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Akkermans-Rutgers, Marlot; Doornenbal, Jeannette; Kassenberg, Annelies; Bosker, Roel; Doolaard, Simone – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
In this study, we analyze in-depth interviews conducted with 26 Dutch third-graders as well as interviews with one of each child's parents. The children attended one of six schools, each with a relatively large population of families with a low socioeconomic status, where home-based literacy assignments aimed at increasing children's enjoyment of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Literacy
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Dutro, Elizabeth – Language Arts, 2009
Dutro discusses an analysis of the disconnect between the material realities of the lives of a group of third-grade children living in poverty and the middle-class assumptions of a district-mandated unit within a literacy curriculum. The analysis arose in the context of an ethnographic study of identity and classroom literacy practices; it was…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, Grade 3, Poverty, Economic Climate