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Robinson, H. Alan; And Others – 1974
A study of the current expressed reading interests of children in the first two years of school conducted in ten countries--Austria, Canada, England, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Panama, Sweden, and the United States--is reported in this paper. Over 2,000 children drew pictures about what they would best like to read or have read to…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Perry, Nancy E.; Nordby, Carla J.; VandeKamp, Karen O. – Elementary School Journal, 2003
Studied discrepancies between Canadian first-graders' home and school literacy contexts regarding the contexts' potential to promote self-regulated approaches to reading and writing. Examined the extent to which differences were reflected in the children's attitudes toward and engagement in reading and writing at school. Found some discontinuity…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Educational Environment, Elementary School Students, Family Environment