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Rachel Williamson; Rebecca Jesson – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2017
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the viability of blogging over the summer holidays as an intervention to ameliorate the Summer Learning Effect (SLE) in writing. The SLE is the impact on achievement of taking a break from school over summer, and has been documented to affect differentially those students who come from low socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Rebecca Jesson; Libby Limbrick – Journal of Research in Reading, 2014
Early literacy interventions have demonstrated that pedagogically sound programmes can boost reading achievement for students who do not succeed in early literacy learning. However, there is less evidence as to what extent gains are maintained in subsequent years or the factors which may contribute to sustained progress. The research reported in…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Emergent Literacy, Reading Achievement, Performance Factors