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Direct linkCook, Gina A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Reading success has been linked to high school completion, future job success, and future generations of children who can read. Unfortunately, children who are unable to read on grade level by the end of first grade are at a great disadvantage and unlikely to catch up later. Without the ability to read and comprehend text, all aspects of schooling…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Low Income, Economically Disadvantaged
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Download full textAthanasou, James A.; Lamprianou, Iasonas – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2004
This paper examines reading achievement when the maternal/paternal language has become a de facto second language. The performance of a cohort of Greek-Australian high school students (N = 270) on a diagnostic Greek reading test was significantly below that of pupils in second to fourth grades in Greece. The mean item difficulty for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries, Grade 4
