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Direct linkTurkyilmaz, Mustafa – Reading Improvement, 2018
The main purpose of this study is to define the effect of the juvenile fiction on secondary school students' reading skills. In the study; 6th grade students', reading juvenile fiction, attitudes to reading, reading speed, comprehension ability of what is read are examined. The group of students reading juvenile fiction is compared to the ones not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Fiction
Peer reviewedLasisi, Monica J. – Reading Improvement, 1983
Investigated the influence of reading time and words read per minute on the literal and interpretative comprehension of primary school students in Nigeria. (FL)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Primary Education
Peer reviewedBreznitz, Zvia – Reading Improvement, 1989
Examines the relevance of decoding, comprehension, and reading rate as used by teachers for evaluation of their students' reading competence. Finds that teachers claim to rely only on decoding and comprehension in assessing reading competence, but that in practice teachers rely quite heavily on reading rate as a diagnostic tool. (RS)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries, Grade 1
