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Direct linkGuryan, Jonathan; Kim, James S.; Quinn, David M. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
There are large gaps in reading skills by family income among school-aged children in the United States. Correlational evidence suggests that reading skills are strongly related to the amount of reading students do outside of school. Experimental evidence testing whether this relationship is causal is lacking. We report the results from a…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Recreational Reading, Summer Programs, Grade 2
Georgiou, George K.; Inoue, Tomohiro; Parrila, Rauno – Child Development, 2021
We examined the bidirectional relations between home literacy environment, reading interest, and children's emergent literacy and reading skills in a sample of 172 English-speaking Canadian children (M[subscript age] = 75.87 months) followed from Grade 1 to Grade 3. Results of cross-lagged analysis revealed that the reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Correlation, Reading Interests, Emergent Literacy
Chastity Griffin Baccus – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Black boys in grades third through fifth are not developing reading comprehension skills compared to their peers in an urban southeastern school district. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore perceptions of third through fifth grade reading teachers on reading comprehension of Black boys in this district. The conceptual…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Males, African American Students
Download full textKäsper, Maile; Uibu, Krista; Mikk, Jaan – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2018
Primary school students have difficulties with text comprehension, and therefore support from teachers via proper language teaching strategies is needed. The aim of the study was to determine the impact of language teaching strategies on students' reading outcomes and reading interest. In the current paper, two reading outcomes--vocabulary…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teaching Methods, Grade 3, Reading Interests
Guthrie, John T.; Hoa, Laurel W.; Wigfield, Allan; Tonks, Stephen M.; Perencevich, Kathleen C. – Reading Research and Instruction, 2006
The processes of change in children's reading motivation have not been widely studied. We investigated whether situated interest for a specific book may lead to longer-term intrinsic motivation for general reading. Two schools with 120 grade 3 students filled out reading logs identifying their reasons for reading their favorite books twice. In…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Grade 3, Reading Achievement, Incentives
Peer reviewedBrookshire, Jamye; Scharff, Lauren F. V.; Moses, Laurie E. – Reading Psychology, 2002
Studies the influence of illustrations on children's book preferences and comprehension. Finds that while third graders scored higher than first graders, both groups showed highest comprehension for the Text-plus-Illustrations book content and the lowest for the Illustration-Only book content. Notes that participants preferred bright illustrations…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Grade 1, Grade 3, Illustrations
Schickedanz, Judith Ann – 1973
This study investigated the relationship between sex-typing of reading and reading comprehension achievement in third grade boys, and sex-typing of reading and reading choice behavior in kindergarten boys. The study also explored the effects of sex and interest of test materials on reading comprehension achievement in third graders. Data were…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 3, Kindergarten Children, Males
Peer reviewedAnderson, Richard C.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1984
Concludes the following: an emphasis on meaning produces better sentence recall than an emphasis on accurate oral reading; in groups receiving an accurate reading emphasis sentence recall depends upon instructional time; the child taking an active turn remembers more sentences from lesson than the children following along; and the interestingness…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Primary Education, Reading Comprehension
Dorwart, Gloria – 1976
In order to determine the opinions of third grade remedial reading pupils about trade books recommended in library selection aids and special series books recommended for poor readers, 57 pupils completed statements on book inventory forms about 24 picture books and 24 series books. Data was gathered on book completion, interest, and difficulty…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Grade 3
Anderson, Richard C.; And Others – 1983
Two experiments were conducted to determine whether a meaning emphasis or a word identification emphasis would give better results in a third grade reading lesson. The results investigated more than 30 factors and their two-way interactions. In the first experiment, 259 children were placed into reading groups arranged either homogeneously or…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Grade 3, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Predictor Variables
Mathewson, Grover C. – 1973
Two studies are discussed in this research report, which was presented at the 1973 American Educational Research Association meeting. The first study investigated whether black children would evaluate Black English selections more favorably than standard English selections and whether favorable evaluation would lead to greater comprehension of the…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedCorcoran, Carol A.; Davis, A. Dia – Reading Improvement, 2005
The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a readers' theater fluency program. The participants were 12 students with learning disabilities in a combined second/third grade exceptional education classroom. Through the use of pre and post reading attitude surveys, field notes recorded by the observer, and pre and post oral fluency…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Grade 3, Special Education
