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Amanda Yoshiko Shimizu; Michael Havazelet; Amanda P. Goodwin – AERA Open, 2024
Digital reading is ubiquitous, yet understanding digital reading processes and links to comprehension remains underdeveloped. Guided by new literacies and active reading theories, this study explored the reading behaviors and comprehension of thirteen fifth graders who read static digital texts. We coded for the quantity and quality of digital…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
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Adriana G. Bus; Yi Shang; Kathleen Roskos – AERA Open, 2024
The effectiveness of incorporating independent reading practice in schools has long been a subject of uncertainty. To shed light on this ongoing debate, this meta-analysis seeks to investigate the impact of in-school independent reading on three crucial measures--attitudes toward reading, word recognition, and comprehension--focusing on K-10…
Descriptors: Independent Reading, Reading Attitudes, Word Recognition, Reading Comprehension
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Phillips Galloway, Emily; Uccelli, Paola; Aguilar, Gladys; Barr, Christopher D. – AERA Open, 2020
In this study, we examine the unique and shared contributions of Spanish and English core academic language skills (CALS) to English reading comprehension in a population of Spanish-English dual language learners in Grades 4 and 5 (n = 165). We focus on cross-disciplinary CALS, operationalized as sets of high-utility lexical, syntactic and…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Spanish, Academic Language, Language Skills
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Kung, Melody – AERA Open, 2019
The present study explores whether the relation between aspects of first-grade reading instruction and reading growth through eighth grade differed for Asian language minority (LM) children and native-English-speaking (NE) children. The sample consisted of 6,715 NEs and 242 Asian LMs, followed from first to eighth grade. Findings were as follows:…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Reading Improvement
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Reynolds, Dan; Goodwin, Amanda – AERA Open, 2016
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) require students to read grade-level text with "scaffolding as needed." The current study examines the effectiveness of interactional scaffolding, which is responsive in-person support an expert provides to a novice reader in order to support the reader's comprehension during reading instruction,…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level
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Nielen, Thijs M. J.; Bus, Adriana G. – AERA Open, 2015
We compared students from schools with an enriched school library--that is, one with a larger and more up-to-date book collection--with students from schools with a typical school library. We tested effects of an enriched school library on reading motivation, reading frequency, and academic skills. Fourth- and fifth-grade students of 14 schools…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Enrichment