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Direct linkHautala, Jarkko; Ronimus, Miia; Junttila, Enni – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
A randomized controlled trial was conducted to study the effectiveness of two readers' theater (RT) programs in promoting reading skills and motivation of dysfluent readers in Grades 3-4. One program (RT Goal) included a goal of preparing a performance for an audience (n = 50), while another program (RT Practice) did not include such a goal (n =…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Drama Education, Reading Instruction, Special Education
Heikkilä, Riikka; Aro, Mikko; Närhi, Vesa; Westerholm, Jari; Ahonen, Timo – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2013
Repeated reading of infrequent syllables has been shown to increase reading speed at the word level in a transparent orthography. This study confirms these results with a computer-based training method and extends them by comparing the training effects of short syllables and long frequent and infrequent syllables, controlling for rapid automatized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Syllables, Reading Instruction, Recognition (Psychology)
Peer reviewedKorkeamaki, Riitta-Liisa; Dreher, Mariam Jean – Journal of Literacy Research, 1996
Investigates children's reading strategies and progress when a meaning-based approach to reading instruction was implemented in a first-grade reading classroom. Describes the design of a reading program in which the teacher introduced totally predictable books, literacy-related centers, and minilessons in context on selected letter-sound…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Primary Education, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedDufva, Mia; Niemi, Pekka; Voeten, Marinus J. M. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2001
Examines the relationships among phonological awareness, phonological memory, and development of reading skills in a longitudinal study, by following 222 Finnish preschoolers through grade 2. Focuses on the role of phonological memory in word recognition and comprehension. Underlines the stability of development of phonological memory,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Listening Comprehension, Longitudinal Studies, Memory
Linnakyla, Pirjo; Gronholm, Maj-Britt – Life and Education in Finland, 1990
Linnakyla examines definitions of literacy as an object of individual and social development and compares concepts of knowledge and literacy. Gronholm advocates the effectiveness of parents reading aloud to their children for 15 minutes per day in the improvement of children's reading skills. (SK)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Definitions, Foreign Countries, Individual Development
Peer reviewedKorkeamaki, Riitta-Liisa; Tiainen, Outi; Dreher, Mariam Jean – National Reading Conference Yearbook, 1998
Finds that a strategy-instruction approach helped second-grade students to find needed information in the nonfiction texts they read and eliminate the copying of text. Discusses how students learned to search for information, take notes, organize notes, and use those notes to compose a report in their own words. (SR)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Foreign Countries, Grade 2
Peer reviewedSilven, Maarit; Vauras, Marja – Learning and Instruction, 1992
Effects of training in thinking aloud on the development of reading skills were examined for 64 sixth graders in 2 Finnish towns. Trainees adopted five of seven text processing strategies they were taught and were most responsive when the trainer modeled thinking aloud and guided students in the activity. (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
Schallert, Diane L., Ed.; Fairbanks, Colleen M., Ed.; Worthy, Jo, Ed.; Maloch, Beth, Ed.; Hoffman, James V., Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2002
This volume presents the 51st Yearbook of the National Reading Conference. Included in this volume are 28 research reports, six invited and award-winning addresses, and a conference summary by Deborah Dillion. Readers will find quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods studies throughout the volume about topics ranging from early literacy…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Core Curriculum, Reading Research, Yearbooks
