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Fletcher, Jo; Grimley, Michael; Greenwood, Janinka; Parkhill, Faye – Literacy, 2012
Teachers are influential in motivating and improving attitudes towards reading. This article reports on an investigation of eight teachers of 10- to 12-year-old students from five New Zealand schools and the strategies they used to improve attitudes to reading. Each school had been identified as implementing effective reading programmes by a panel…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Early Adolescents, Reading Instruction, Foreign Countries
Padgett, Carrie B. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The Jump Start Literacy Camp was developed as a means to combat summer learning loss. The camp utilized high-energy activities to target phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. This study examined the effects of the Jump Start Literacy Camp on reading achievement for rising third and fourth grade students in an urban…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Quasiexperimental Design, Reading Attitudes, Reading Achievement
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Murphy, Sharon – Language Arts, 2012
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Recreational Reading, Positive Attitudes
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Parker-Corney, Kate; Kilpin, Ken; Taylor, Rowena – Kairaranga, 2011
Low levels of literacy engagement by Years 9 and 10 students impact on their achievement in curriculum subjects such as Social Studies in New Zealand secondary schools. The majority of students entering secondary school possess sufficient foundation skills for further scaffolded subject literacy instruction, but some consistently resist or refuse…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Reading Motivation, Foreign Countries, Literacy
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Wozniak, Cheryl L. – Voices from the Middle, 2011
Reluctant and struggling readers, many of whom are boys, are placed in reading intervention classes; however, often the environmental conditions of these intervention classrooms are not conducive for fostering a student's love for reading. This article describes Cambourne's optimal conditions for literacy learning and the results from implementing…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Intervention, Reading Aloud to Others, Independent Reading
Hebert, Thomas P.; Pagnani, Alexander R. – Gifted Child Today, 2010
This article illustrates the serious challenge of engaging boys in reading and writing which has become more complex and even influences the lives of gifted adolescent males. This article attempts to address this concern. In order to do so, the authors examine the scholarly literature on boys' reading preferences and report findings from that…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Gifted, Reading Attitudes, Males
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Sturtevant, Elizabeth G.; Kim, Grace S. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2010
This study examined literacy motivation among middle-school students in English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) classes by using a 20-question survey and semi-structured interview. The survey results identified similarities among students of different genders, but differences between the beginning ESOL group and the more advanced groups,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Interviews, Multiple Regression Analysis, Literacy
Walker, Patricia A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The use of literacy during non-school hours of three African-American families was examined. This study used a qualitative research design to probe the meanings and value of literacy in the homes of three African-American families during nonschool hours, including before school, after school, weekends, holidays, and summer breaks. The structure…
Descriptors: Holidays, Qualitative Research, Mothers, Family Structure
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Howard, Vivian – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2011
This paper reports on a research study investigating the role of pleasure reading in the lives of 12-15 year old residents of an eastern Canadian regional municipality. Pleasure reading was found to fulfill three broad functions: it enhanced academic performance, social engagement and personal development. In conclusion, the study confirms that…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Information Seeking, Values, Recreational Reading
Mullis, Ina V.S.; Martin, Michael O.; Foy, Pierre; Drucker, Kathleen T. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2012
PIRLS is an international assessment of reading comprehension at the fourth grade that has been conducted every five years since 2001. In 2011, nationally representative samples of students in 49 countries participated in PIRLS and prePIRLS. Forty-five countries assessed fourth grade students, and some countries participated in one or more of the…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Grade 4, International Studies
Corrin, William; Somers, Marie-Andree; Kemple, James; Nelson, Elizabeth; Sepanik, Susan – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2009
Unfortunately, little is known about school-based interventions that address the needs of struggling adolescent readers. To help fill these gaps in knowledge and to provide evidence-based guidance to practitioners, the U.S. Department of Education initiated the Enhanced Reading Opportunities (ERO) Study--a demonstration and random assignment…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 9, Literacy, Program Implementation
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Theiss, Deb; Philbrick, Anita; Jarman, Georgia – SRATE Journal, 2009
This study surveyed pre-service teachers to determine their reading maturity using The Reading Maturity Survey (Thomas, 2001). Results indicate that pre-service teachers self-report high levels of confidence in their reading maturity with the exception of two areas that may relate to developing skills in critical reflection and transformational…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Program Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes
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Oakley, Grace; Jay, Jenny – Reading Teacher, 2008
Most children seem to love computers, and there has been much speculation and research about how educators might harness this interest to facilitate literacy learning. A growing body of research indicates that electronic talking books (ETBs) can help children learn to read and encourage them to read, so we decided to investigate what would happen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Reading Instruction, Multimedia Materials
Gutensohn, Linda S. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This exploratory mixed methods design research report will investigate whether or not participating in literacy activities that are based on best practice will have a positive impact on the attitudes and behaviors of preservice teachers toward reading and writing for both professional practice and pleasure. In an effort to closely examine the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Role Models, Writing Attitudes, Research Methodology
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Pitcher, Sharon M.; Albright, Lettie K.; DeLaney, Carol J.; Walker, Nancy T.; Seunarinesingh, Krishna; Mogge, Stephen; Headley, Kathy N.; Ridgeway, Victoria Gentry; Peck, Sharon; Hunt, Rebecca; Dunston, Pamela J. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2007
A team of researchers revised the Motivation to Read Profile for use with adolescents. Instruments to assess adolescents' in- and out-of-school reading motivations were administered. A survey adapted for adolescents was administered to 384 teens at eight sites throughout the United States and Trinidad, and 100 students were interviewed using a…
Descriptors: Profiles, Literature Appreciation, Adolescents, Literacy
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