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Download full textPrimamore, Mildred A. – 1994
A descriptive study determined whether reading aloud to young children promoted literacy and enhanced their desire to read. Subjects, 20 second-grade children (aged 6 to 7 years) in Avenel, New Jersey, were exposed to read-aloud sessions on a daily basis for a 6-week period. During each week, a specific genre of books was read aloud daily. At the…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Grade 2, Primary Education, Reading Aloud to Others
Watt, Susan L. – 1989
A descriptive study examined whether reading aloud to children regularly beginning at infancy would have an effect on their future disposition to reading. Subjects, 487 kindergarten through third grade students in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, were given a questionnaire to be completed by the parents. Ninety-seven questionnaires representing 116…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Parent Participation, Parent Student Relationship, Primary Education
Burns-Paterson, Abigail L. – 1991
A study investigated whether students in whole language based and basal reader approaches would have different concepts of reading when asked to define reading. Subjects, 69 suburban New Jersey first and third graders and 16 New Zealand first graders, were asked 3 questions: "What is reading?"; "What do you do when you read?";…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grade 1
Thomsen, Mary Zimmerman – 1992
A study examined whether prime-time television shows have an effect on the image of reading and/or reading activities through their content. The sample consisted of 39 third-grade students in a suburban area of New Jersey. A survey was presented for background information and the top three prime-time television shows were selected. Subjects viewed…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Grade 3, Mass Media Effects, Primary Education
