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Direct linkMcGeown, Sarah P.; Osborne, Cara; Warhurst, Amy; Norgate, Roger; Duncan, Lynne G. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2016
This study examined the extent to which a range of child characteristics (sex, age, socioeconomic status, reading skill and intrinsic and extrinsic reading motivation) predicted engagement (i.e., time spent) in different reading activities (fiction books, factual books, school textbooks, comics, magazines and digital texts). In total, 791 children…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Gender Differences, Age Differences, Socioeconomic Status
Dowd, Frances Smardo – 1991
Noting that as many as 15 million elementary school children are regularly left without adult supervision for several hours after school each day until an adult returns home from work, this book focuses on what is happening and what could happen to latchkey children in terms of the community as a whole, as well as in regard to public libraries.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Organizations, Community Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
