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The Complex Relationship between Teachers' Instructional Practices and Students' Reading Amount
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Mats Tegmark; Monika Vinterek; Tarja Alatalo; Mikael Winberg – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
The purpose of this study is to develop understanding of the relation between instructional practices and students' reading amount. As part of a larger mixed-methods study of reading practices across the curriculum in Swedish compulsory school, a selection of 14 classes from Grades 6 and 9 were observed over a total of 59 lessons. The data…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
Motivational Aspects of Students' Amount of Reading and Affective Reading Experiences in a School Context: A Large-Scale Study of Grades 6 and 9
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Winberg, Mikael; Tegmark, Mats; Vinterek, Monika; Alatalo, Tarja – Reading Psychology, 2022
As leisure-time reading among adolescents declines in the western world, stakeholders try to increase students' motivation for school-related reading. We examine the relationship of students' autonomous and controlled reading motivation with their amount and experiences of school-related reading in four school subjects, controlling for students'…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Reading Motivation, Affective Behavior, Student Experience
Librarians' Book Talks for Children: An Opportunity for Widening Reading Practices?
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Schmidt, Catarina – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
The importance of supporting children's reading engagement and reading comprehension from the early years is widely acknowledged, particular for children growing up in areas characterized by socioeconomic challenges. This mission is collectively shared by teachers and librarians, although with differing starting points and responsibilities. This…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Comprehension, Childrens Literature, Disadvantaged
A Multi-Sensory Tutoring Program for Students at Risk of Reading Difficulties: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
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Bøg, Martin; Dietrichson, Jens; Isaksson, Anna A. – Journal of Educational Research, 2021
This study examined a literacy program that targeted students most at risk of reading difficulties in kindergarten and first grade of 12 Swedish schools. The program used multi-sensory learning methods that focused on phonological awareness and phonics, and was delivered during 10 weeks over 30-35 sessions by teachers in a one-to-one or one-to-two…
Descriptors: Multisensory Learning, Tutoring, Program Effectiveness, Cost Effectiveness
Creating the Valuable: Reading as a Matter of Health and Successful Parenthood
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Sjödin, Elin Sundström – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
There have been increasing demands to improve Swedish children's reading habits, triggered by poor PISA results in 2013, and public healthcare has stepped in as a strong reading-promoting actor. Drawing on the emerging field of valuation research in STS, the paper explores the values enacted in health-related information brochures about reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Habits, Public Health, Books
Can Teenagers Be Motivated to Read Literature?
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Papadima-Sophocleous, Salomi – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2009
Over the last years, in many countries worldwide, there has been a decline in the reading skills of upper secondary school students, and their ability to read and understand advanced literature. Seeing this as an alarming change for the worse, governments, educational bodies and interested groups have taken various measures to address the issue.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Secondary School Students, Reading Motivation