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Peer reviewedCecil, Nancy Lee – Reading Teacher, 1984
Substantiates a positive and significant relationship between high interest and literal comprehension for second grade readers in the Virgin Islands. Asks teachers to consider how this might affect classroom instruction. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Females, Foreign Countries, Grade 2
Gardiner, Sandra Faye Altman – 1983
A study examined the effects of sex-typed content and sex role preference on 87 fifth grade boys' and 64 fifth grade girls' reading material preferences. It also explored how high- and low-rated sex-typed reading content and students' sex and sex role preferences influenced reading comprehension. After reading the sex-typed content, which…
Descriptors: Females, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Males
