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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
Developing Children's Literary Resources
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Peng, Chew Fong – Educational Research and Reviews, 2012
The Malay literary materials and resources for early childhood in Malaysia are still in the infant stage and have not been expanded to include the main references or developed into big book form. The children literature in our market is not published based on educational philosophy and research, but it is produced based on profit. The process of…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Feedback (Response), Childrens Literature, Young Children
The Relationship between Maternal Beliefs and Behavior during Shared Reading
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Meagher, Susan M.; Arnold, David H.; Doctoroff, Greta L.; Baker, Courtney N. – Early Education and Development, 2008
The goal of the present study was to increase understanding of the connection between maternal beliefs and behavior during shared reading and to examine the relation of these maternal beliefs to children's reading engagement. The study included survey and observational data from an ethnically diverse sample of 50 mothers and their 5- to 6-year-old…
Descriptors: Mothers, Gender Differences, Reading Aloud to Others, Young Children
An Evaluation of Two Approaches for Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies in the Primary Years Using Science Information Texts
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Reutzel, D. Ray; Smith, John A.; Fawson, Parker C. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2005
There are few research studies on the effects of teaching comprehension strategies to young children in the primary grades. Using a Dominant-Less Dominant Mixed Model design employing both qualitative and quantitative data collection, we evaluated two approaches for teaching comprehension strategies to 7- and 8-year-old children in four…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Motivation, Reading Instruction, Young Children
Facilitating Emergent Literacy Skills: A Literature-Based, Multiple Intelligence Approach
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Brand, Susan Trostle – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2006
Educators have continually sought to achieve a balance between a phonics-based, code-emphasis program and a more holistic, meaning-based approach to emergent literacy instruction. This article describes an integrated phonics and literature-based approach to developing children's emergent literacy skills. These skills included alphabet knowledge,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Phonemes, Language Usage, Play
Lessons from Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children for Adult Learning and Literacy
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Snow, Catherine E.; Strucker, John – Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1999
In the spring of 1998 the National Research Council released a report, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children for Adult Learning and Literacy (PRD). PRD was written with the goal of contributing to the prevention of reading difficulties by documenting the contributions of research to an understanding of reading development and the…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Prevention, Adult Basic Education, Young Children