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Cooc, North; Kim, James S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
Research has found that peers influence the academic achievement of children. However, the mechanisms through which peers matter remain underexplored. The present study examined the relationship between peers' reading skills and children's own reading skills among 4,215 total second- and third-graders in 294 classrooms across 41 schools. One…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Reading Skills, Academic Achievement, Reading Achievement
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Kim, James S.; Cooc, North; Quinn, David M. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
The problem of summer reading loss among low-income children has been amply documented by researchers. Over time, income-based disparities in reading achievement appear to grow more rapidly during the summer months than the academic school year. This paper describes two experiments in which teachers scaffold summer book reading with two different…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement