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Supporting Young Readers: A Mixed-Methods Study of Their Literacy, Behaviour, and Perceptions When Reading Aloud to Dogs or Adults
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Syrnyk, Corinne; McArthur, Alisa; Zwack, Alyson; Handelsman, Allison – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
Animal-assisted interventions (AAI) have been found to benefit human emotional state and cognitive performance. Recent applications of AAI have extended to classrooms with a range of intentions including to improve literacy. This Canadian study sought to examine differences in reading performance and behaviour in early readers identified as…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Student Behavior, Student Attitudes, Oral Reading
Literature Review: Supporting Struggling Readers
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Dudych, Katherine – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2015
In 2013, the Pan-Canadian Assessment Program identified Manitoba as the province having the lowest reading achievement scores of grade 8 students across Canada. These poor results serve as an indicator that changes to the way teachers support struggling readers in the classroom and beyond its walls are essential. Struggling readers require…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Reading Achievement
Examining an Extended Home Literacy Model: The Mediating Roles of Emergent Literacy Skills and Reading Fluency
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Inoue, Tomohiro; Georgiou, George K.; Parrila, Rauno; Kirby, John R. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2018
We examined the developmental relationships between home literacy environment (parent teaching, shared book reading) and emergent literacy skills (phonological awareness, letter knowledge, vocabulary, rapid naming speed) in kindergarten, reading accuracy and fluency in Grade 1, and reading comprehension in Grades 2 and 3 in a sample of Canadian…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Emergent Literacy, Reading Skills, Reading Fluency
Meaning Construction in Early Oral Reading
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Léger, Paul David; Cameron, Catherine Ann – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2013
The authors' interest in the associations between beginners' reading and writing performance led them to devise an index of children's meaning construction in reading by increasing the specificity of the Reading Miscue Inventory meaning change index to include finer discriminations between superficial and meaning disruptive miscues potentially…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Early Reading, Miscue Analysis, Emergent Literacy
Involving Parents in a Summer Book Reading Program to Promote Reading Comprehension, Fluency, and Vocabulary in Grade 3 and Grade 5 Children
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Pagan, Stephanie; Sénéchal, Monique – Canadian Journal of Education, 2014
In this research, parents and children participated in a comprehensive book reading intervention designed to improve children's literacy. Over eight weeks during the summer, children in the intervention condition were encouraged to read one book weekly and parents were trained to foster reading comprehension. Forty-eight Grades 3 and 5 children…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Intervention, Literacy Education
Manitoba Reading Assessment 1985. Final Report.
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. Curriculum Development Branch. – 1987
Based on an integrated approach to reading instruction, this report of the 1985 Manitoba Reading Assessment includes a reading survey test, with an individual measure of listening-speaking and oral and silent reading performance, a reading interest inventory, and a teacher questionnaire. The 1985 Assessment also re-administered selected items from…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Listening