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Yang Dong; Bonnie Wing-Yin Chow; Gelin Xia; Jianhong Mo; Hang Dong – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
The article explored the impact of topic background knowledge (TBK) on children's language ability development and reading-related emotional factors. TBK refers to the foundational knowledge that children possess concerning a specific subject or topic. The content schemata theory suggests that a high level of TBK facilitates information processing…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Prior Learning, Kindergarten, Preschool Children
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Yang Dong; Bonnie Wing-Yin Chow; Jianhong Mo; Xuecong Miao; Hao-Yuan Zheng – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: Dialogic reading (DR) is an effective shared reading technique based on the prompts-evaluate-expand-repeat (PEER) sequence, which fosters children's language development. This study examines the effects of its elements by comparing shared reading with prompts with minimal feedback (PMF) and PEER. Methods: This study included 364…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Prompting, Repetition, Language Acquisition
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Wood, Carla; Fitton, Lisa; Rodriguez, Estrella – AERA Open, 2018
This study aimed to describe home literacy (HL) activities of Spanish-/English-speaking children of low-socioeconomic status backgrounds and examine the relationship between HL and performance on standardized assessments. Parents of 65 dual-language learners (DLLs) in kindergarten completed an HL questionnaire. Parents reported an average of 17…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Education, Kindergarten
Wood, Carla; Fitton, Lisa; Rodriguez, Estrella – Grantee Submission, 2018
This study aimed to describe home literacy (HL) activities of Spanish-/English-speaking children of low-socioeconomic status backgrounds and examine the relationship between HL and performance on standardized assessments. Parents of 65 dual-language learners (DLLs) in kindergarten completed an HL questionnaire. Parents reported an average of 17…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Education, Kindergarten
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Viljaranta, Jaana; Kiuru, Noona; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Silinskas, Gintautas; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Educational Psychology, 2017
The majority of previous research on academic skills, self-concept of ability and interest has deployed the variable-oriented approach and focused on self-concept, or ability, or interest only. This study examined the patterns and dynamics of pattern change in Finnish children's word reading skill, self-concept of ability and interest from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Self Concept, Reading Ability
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Shea, Mary; Cole, Ardith – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2014
This article describes a study conducted with four Kindergarten teachers and students. The researchers were the building's literacy specialist/reading teacher and a college professor teaching pre-service teachers on site at the school. This was a naturally evolving teacher research study generated from questions raised as children demonstrated…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Reading Programs, Prevention, Reading Failure
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LaCour, Misty M.; McDonald, Connie; Tissington, Laura D.; Thomason, Gina – Reading Improvement, 2013
This study sought to determine if, by providing parents with a workshop on the use of dialogic reading techniques during the storybook reading event in the home, Pre-Kindergarten children's attitude and interest in reading would improve. Parents completed a survey prior to the workshop and two months following completion of the workshop. Through…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Reading Improvement, Reading Attitudes
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Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Cheung, Him – Journal of Research in Reading, 2010
This study investigated the effects of dialogic parent-child reading in English on 51 Hong Kong kindergarteners learning English as a second language. Children were pre-tested on nonverbal IQ, reading interest and receptive vocabulary, word reading and phonological awareness in both Chinese and English. They were then assigned randomly to one of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Reading Aloud to Others, English
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Psarakis, Christina – Language Arts, 2006
This article deals with a child's impression of literacy. The author interviews Sophia Kazee, a kindergartner, who was asked her about her favorite books. She asked her where she reads at home and in the classroom and asked her to draw these places. The first drawing shows children reading books and Sophia reading to her teacher, Ms. Cresse. The…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Kindergarten, Young Children, Freehand Drawing
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Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Cheung, Him; Chow, Celia Sze-Lok – Developmental Psychology, 2008
This study investigates the effects of parent-child shared book reading and metalinguistic training on the language and literacy skills of 148 kindergartners in Hong Kong. Children were pretested on Chinese character recognition, vocabulary, morphological awareness, and reading interest and then assigned randomly to 1 of 4 conditions: the dialogic…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Aloud to Others, Metalinguistics, Morphology (Languages)
Gunderson, Doris V. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
This bulletin is the first in a series of summaries of research conducted in reading from 1955 to 1960. The publication includes both published and unpublished research during the 5-year period. The published research has been compiled largely from studies reported in educational periodicals. The unpublished research was made available through a…
Descriptors: Educational History, Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary School Students, Reading Research
Gray, Ruth A. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1936
The Bibliography of Research Studies in Education covering the school year September 1934 through August 1935 is the ninth in the series. It lists 2,971 studies reported by 145 institutions, a number of which had not reported before. It contains a total of 384 doctors' dissertations, 2,368 masters' thesis, and 219 studies reported as faculty…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Research, Research Reports
Gray, Ruth A. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1940
The Bibliography of Research Studies in Education for the school year September 1937 through August 1938 lists 3,890 theses and studies reported by 159 institutions, several of which had not reported previously. The list, which is the twelfth in the series, includes 519 doctors' dissertations, 3,146 masters' theses, and 225 studies reported as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Research, Surveys
Gray, Ruth A. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
This Bibliography of Research Studies in Education covering the school year September 1936 through August 1937 is the eleventh in the series. It lists 3,530 studies reported by 122 institutions, several of which had not reported previously. The list includes 541 doctors' dissertations, 2,736 masters' theses, and 243 studies reported as faculty…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Research, Research Reports