In this update of a bestselling classic, you will learn how to develop children's capacity and will to read. Each sequential chapter is practical, eye-opening, and exactly what you need to engage young learners, plan lessons, partner with parents, and align your PreK-3 classrooms to the science of learning and the science of reading. Gain the…

Many educator preparation programs desire to partner with P-12 and community groups. The authors showcase the development of a P-12 School-University-Family partnership. Partnership goals included literacy growth and interest among linguistically and culturally diverse P-12 learners while also providing a sustainable training ground for current…

This article is aimed to study the problems of reading and improve reading culture of students-bachelors of elementary education in modern high institutions and development of the most effective methods and techniques for improving of reading culture of students in the study of Humanities disciplines. The leading method to the study of this…

The Read to be Ready campaign emerged from the startling reality of Tennessee's reading achievement data. Only one-third of Tennessee fourth graders scored proficient in the last administration of National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) in 2015. Equally concerning, students who fell behind in the early years almost never caught up in…

Reading skill is a cognitive process in which the words are perceived, given a meaning, comprehended and then interpreted. The last year in primary education is a critical period when this skill is changed into a habit. As reading attitudes are important for an individual throughout the life, it is necessary to determine according to which…

Beginning with the premise that pleasure is a driving force in life, this article examines the relationships between pleasure, schooling and society across the past century. Through the examination of school texts, narratives, and histories of literacy instruction, a case is made that part of the move away from keeping pleasure at the heart of…

The Progress in Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) was developed to help improve the teaching of reading and the acquisition of reading skills around the world, and was approved by the IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) General Assembly as an essential component of the IEA's regular cycle of core studies,…

Reviews the debate about intrinsic versus extrinsic rewards for reading. Discusses the effectiveness of praise. Uses L. Vygotsky's notion of the Zone of Proximal Development to understand the development of motivation to read. Suggests that the motivation to keep reading will come from students' experience of success and their feeling of belonging…

Describes and reproduces a public-domain instrument that would help in quantitative group surveys and enable teachers to estimate reading attitude levels efficiently and reliably. Presents the instrument along with a discussion of its development and suggestions for its use. (MG)

Discusses a bulletin board that highlights authors' birthdays and children's birthdays for each month of the year, and related classroom activities that get students excited about authors and about reading. (SR)

Discusses the hyperbole surrounding statements and testimonials about the effectiveness of phonics instruction. Suggests that reading is more than sounding out words one at a time and that most children figure it out for themselves with little or no help. Suggests that reading is also more than a psycholinguistic guessing game. (RS)

A reading attitude inventory was administered to 134 children in grades 1 through 6 to see if attitudes changed as students progressed through the grades. A difference was found between grades 4 and 5 which appeared to involve a more positive attitude toward non-classroom reading. (Author/MT)

Categorizes several self-reporting reading attitude instruments that are currently available in order to provide teachers with information that will let them choose the instrument that is most appropriate for their situation. (FL)

Explores the implications of attitudes toward reading of both good and poor readers in relation to their performance scores. (DD)

Reports results of an extensive field test of a reading attitudes survey. Finds that students tend to demonstrate mildly favorable attitudes in grades 2-6, but these attitudes deteriorate to neutral to mildly unfavorable attitudes in the fifth and sixth grade. (RS)