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Direct linkLepper, Chantal; Stang, Justine; McElvany, Nele – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
Reading motivation is a fundamental basis for reading behavior and performance. For learners, interest is an exceedingly important component of reading motivation. Prior research has shown that students' text-based interest varies significantly between texts. However, it is still unclear why one text elicits greater interest over another.…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Reading Motivation, Reader Text Relationship, Literary Genres
Brian Strong – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2024
While previous research has provided insights into vocabulary learning through extensive reading, the differential effects of word frequency and word class on active form and passive meaning word recognition remain less understood. By evaluating learners' post-test performance in active form recognition and passive meaning recognition, this study…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Word Frequency
Julie Cohen; Luke C. Miller; Rosalie Chung; Emily Wiseman; Erik Ruzek – Journal of Education, 2024
Helping students engage with complex texts has been a longstanding challenge, though teachers have received little guidance about practices that help students in engaging with texts. This paper provides a range of empirical evidence about a tool designed to provide formative insight into text-focused teaching, which we used to reliably score more…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Research
Guthrie, John; Seifert, Mary – 1982
A study examined the roles of reading in a community by describing the reading activities of individuals and demographic subgroups of individuals. After the preliminary, trial phase to determine the feasibility of the survey, 109 adult wage earners from 4 occupation groups, in a community of 6,000 households, responded to an inventory designed to…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Reading Interests, Reading Material Selection, Reading Research
Download full textHoke, Brenda Lynn – 1999
This study was done to see if readability levels printed on recreational reading books were as accurate as when the Fry formula and the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level were applied to them. Three descriptive passages from each of 60 recreational reading books were analyzed using the Fry formula and the Flesch-Kincaid formula. The data was compared to…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Material Selection
Indrisano, Roselmina – Instructor, 1979
Describes Stein and Glenn's research on story grammar and suggests classroom uses of the grammar. (SS)
Descriptors: Psychological Studies, Reading Comprehension, Reading Material Selection, Reading Research
Peer reviewedGerlach, Jeanne M.; Rinehart, Steven D. – Reading Horizons, 1992
Examines junior high school students' adolescent literature selection process. Finds that the summary on the inside flap and the cover illustrations are the most frequently used cover clues for book selection. (RS)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Junior High Schools, Reading Material Selection, Reading Research
Peer reviewedRinehart, Steven D.; And Others – Reading Psychology, 1994
Reviews 37 different back-of-the-book (BOB) summaries to evaluate how helpful these summaries are for adolescent readers selecting a book for recreational reading. Finds that BOB summaries focus largely on plot events and do so accurately. Notes that teacher education students valued the accuracy of the summaries. Demonstrates the value in using…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Junior High Schools, Reading Material Selection, Reading Research
Peer reviewedReed, W. Michael; Gerlach, Jeanne M. – ALAN Review, 1993
Presents a model (developed as a result of surveying college students enrolled in "Fiction for Adolescents" classes) to help teachers recognize adolescent novels which are likely to appeal to their students and which have literary merit. (SR)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Models, Reading Interests, Reading Material Selection
Schafer, Paul J. – 1986
Noting that research indicating Newbery Medal books are not popular with elementary students in spite of their unquestioned superiority in plot, characterization, and style, a study examined the readability level of Newbery Medal winners from 1974 to 1986. Three readability formulas were used to assess readability: Gunning's Fog Index, Fry…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Readability
Froese, V. – 1979
The 42 teachers enrolled in a graduate reading course participated in a study examining the application of the Rauding Scale and the SEER technique, two global readability procedures. After a lecture on the topic of readability, the teachers rated eight passages with both readability formulas, and these ratings were compared to the predetermined…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation, Readability, Readability Formulas
Peer reviewedMiller, John W. – Reading Horizons, 1979
Describes a study that examined the relationship between amount of teaching experience and the ability to judge the difficulty levels of reading materials. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Level, Reading Material Selection, Reading Research
Peer reviewedSmith, M. Cecil – Reading Improvement, 1990
Determines the relationship between attitude and reading behavior in adults. Finds that adults with positive attitudes toward reading spend more time in daily reading and read a wider variety of materials than do adults with negative attitudes. (MG)
Descriptors: Adults, Reading Attitudes, Reading Interests, Reading Material Selection
Peer reviewedLaina, Ho – Journal of Reading, 1992
Uses measures of readability and syntactic complexity to verify that U.S. teen books are easier for young people reading English as a Second Language than British ones. (SR)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Readability
Peer reviewedPottorff, Donald D.; Olthof, Kathleen – Reading Improvement, 1993
Examines censorship of children's books in 36 school systems in Michigan. Reveals 79 censorship attempts of which 22 were successful during a 5-year period. Finds that adequate school policies and procedures regarding both censorship and the selection of books to be placed in libraries and classrooms are still lacking in a number of school…
Descriptors: Censorship, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Material Selection
