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Barone, Diane M. – Guilford Publications, 2010
Many reading programs today overlook an essential component of literacy instruction--helping children develop an enduring love of reading. This authoritative and accessible guide provides a wealth of ideas for incorporating high-quality children's books of all kinds into K-6 classrooms. Numerous practical strategies are presented for engaging…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Independent Reading, Reading Programs
Mullis, Ina V.S.; Martin, Michael O.; Kennedy, Ann M.; Trong, Kathleen L.; Sainsbury, Marian – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2009
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,…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement, Interests
Nichols, Susan; Cormack, Phil – English in Australia, 2009
The relationship between home and school is often raised in public discussion about boys' education as an aspect of boys' overall lower achievement in school, and particularly in literacy, relative to girls. A critical review of two influential Australian and one UK government commissioned reports into boys' education sets the scene for our…
Descriptors: Family Influence, Foreign Countries, Males, Gender Differences
Brozo, William G. – Educational Leadership, 2006
Evidence dating back to the 1930s and receiving increased attention today shows that boys tend to lag behind girls in reading achievement. The author asserts that we can help boys become thoughtful, accomplished readers, if we view their existing competencies, interests, and personal experiences as assets rather than as impediments to achievement.…
Descriptors: Literacy, Males, Reading Achievement, Teaching Methods
Yeo, Michelle – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2007
There is a conceptual world surrounding writing in schools, and we are conditioned to a particular language about composition and literacy. This study seeks to interrogate the terms composition and literacy at the level of the classroom: to ask what is meant when it is invoked and what it means to the teachers who teach it. The central question of…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Literacy, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Davis, Pauline – Educational Research, 2007
Background: Before the 1990s, an individual or medical model dominated educational research methodology with respect to younger children: the subjects of the research were usually considered untrustworthy sources of information. A subsequent shift towards an ecological model has focused on the child's perspective: however, Lewis and Lindsay have…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Story Telling, Data Collection
Reis, Sally M.; McCoach, D. Betsy; Coyne, Michael; Schreiber, Frederic J.; Eckert, Rebecca D.; Gubbins, E. Jean – Elementary School Journal, 2007
In this study, we used a randomized design to investigate the effects of an enriched reading program on 226 urban elementary students' (third through sixth grade) reading comprehension, oral reading fluency, and attitude toward reading in 2 elementary schools. The Schoolwide Enrichment Model in Reading Framework (SEM-R) provides enriched reading…
Descriptors: Remedial Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Programs, Reading Fluency
Sax, Leonard – School Library Journal, 2007
The gender issue is relevant to classroom learning in more ways than one. Increasingly in the United States, young boys are saying that school is stupid and they do not like to read. This phenomenon cuts across all demographic groups: it affects affluent white boys in the suburbs no less than it affects black boys in low-income neighborhoods. In…
Descriptors: Video Games, Predictor Variables, Literature Appreciation, Gender Issues

Beuchat, Cecilia E. – Reading Teacher, 1994
Describes the encounters with children experienced by a writer of children's books when she makes school visits. Reflects on how authors' visits to schools positively affect children's interest in reading and writing. (SR)
Descriptors: Authors, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Literacy

Webster, Alec; And Others – Journal of Research in Reading, 1996
Analyzes teachers' conceptual maps of literacy teaching as the preliminary phase of a research program aimed at describing and enhancing pupils' functional use of literacy across the curriculum. Notes similarities and contrasts between the views of primary and secondary teachers. Finds that teachers have complex models of literacy and do not…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy, Reading Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes

Moje, Elizabeth Birr – Reading Research and Instruction, 2002
Argues the field of education has not attended adequately to the literacy learning and development of adolescents; and that the future of adolescent and secondary literacy research is in research that examines the connections between the everyday discourses of adolescents and the academic discourses they navigate each day in school. (RS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy, Reading Attitudes, Research Needs
Wray, David; Medwell, Jane – Education 3-13, 2006
The views of the learners are arguably the most important consideration in planning for classroom literacy instruction, yet they are often ignored by policy-makers and by teachers. In order to match the literacy curriculum to the learners, it is essential for teachers to consider the programmes they offer from the learners' points of view. This…
Descriptors: Literacy, Student Attitudes, Reading Attitudes, Writing Attitudes
Davis, Pauline – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2007
This article reports on case study research of seven- and eight-year-old children's discourse about reading. The case studies were selected to provide classrooms in contrasting neighbourhoods within a white "working class" town in the North of England. Mixed methods were employed, but primarily the case studies were ethnographic in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociocultural Patterns, Middle Class, Case Studies
Dagostino, Lorraine; Carifio, James – 1993
This paper presents a model delineating attributes which enable a literate reader to successfully participate in a pluralistic society. The paper outlines the model as building upon and defining the traditional skills and schema views of reading comprehension which include maturity, attitudes, dispositions, intellectual abilities, knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Models, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Attitudes

Nweke, Ken M. C. – Reading Teacher, 1987
Describes efforts to promote the desire to read and the availability of materials for Nigerians who have already been introduced to reading. (FL)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Literacy, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits