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Download full textClark, Christina; Picton, Irene – National Literacy Trust, 2021
The National Literacy Trust's research during the first national lockdown in spring 2020 showed that more children and young people said that they enjoyed reading and more read more often during lockdown compared with before the pandemic. Children and young people's comments suggested that this was because they suddenly had time to (re)engage with…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Reading Motivation, Learner Engagement
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Direct linkKucirkova, Natalia – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2019
This article critically reviews the personalization logic embedded in reading recommendation systems developed for 2- to 11-year-old children and its (dis)alignment with Papert's constructionist and socio-constructionist theories of learning. It is argued that the current design fails to incorporate the computer culture that Papert envisioned for…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Children, Reading Skills, Elementary School Students
Janan, Dahlia; Wray, David – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to review readability formulae and offer a critique, based on a comparison of the grading of a variety of texts given by six well-known formulae. Methodology: A total of 64 texts in English were selected either by or for native English speaking children aged between six and 11 years. Each text was assessed…
Descriptors: Readability Formulas, Readability, Accuracy, Word Frequency
Is Four the Magic Number? Number of Books Read in a Month and Young People's Wider Reading Behaviour
Clark, Christina; Poulton, Lizzie – National Literacy Trust, 2011
Earlier this year Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education, announced that British children were not reading enough and should, he believed, reading 50 books a year. This idea had come from a charter school he had visited in the US and was met with some degree of scepticism by authors and professionals who questioned whether a focus on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits, Reading Motivation
