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Download full textRobinson, H. Alan; And Others – 1974
A study of the current expressed reading interests of children in the first two years of school conducted in ten countries--Austria, Canada, England, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Panama, Sweden, and the United States--is reported in this paper. Over 2,000 children drew pictures about what they would best like to read or have read to…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Grade 1, Grade 2
Kimbrough, James Daniel – 1972
The problem of this study was to determine types of books selected for recreational reading by children in grades four, five, and six in fifteen schools, how the children ranked the books according to preference after reading them, their stated reasons for selections, and their reasons for indicated strong preferences. A total of 2,765 children…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
Blackwelder, Evelyn McWhorter – 1976
The effect of individual teacher-student conferences on reading achievement, attitude toward reading, and amount of reading was investigated in separate samples of third and fourth graders, none of whom had previously had such teacher-student conferences. Results indicated significant differences between experimental and control groups at the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Independent Reading, Individualized Instruction
Toro, Adrienne – 2001
Accelerated Reader is a computer program designed by Advantage Learning Systems to assess students' reading comprehension levels and keep detailed and accurate reports of such findings. This research studied the Accelerated Reader program with a second grade class over a 6-week time frame. One class of 20 students read books picked from the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Grade 2, Independent Reading
Peer reviewedSingh, Jane M. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1971
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Enrichment Activities, Homework
Peer reviewedHuck, Charlotte S. – Language Arts, 1992
Discusses research on home literacy environments, the values of reading aloud, independent reading, literature and writing, and literature in the language arts curriculum. (RS)
Descriptors: Early Reading, Elementary Education, Family Environment, Independent Reading
Gallagher, Margaret; Pearson, P. David – 1989
A series of studies addressed basic questions about instruction in subject areas such as science and social studies at the elementary level, focusing on group discussion of textbook content and addressing the effects of instruction in terms of students' knowledge acquisition and their independent reading comprehension of new content. Subjects,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Grade 4, Group Discussion, Independent Reading
Tierney, Robert J. – 1983
Students must develop self-monitoring abilities if they are to successfully transfer knowledge and strategies they are taught to their own reading. But first, teachers must know just what this knowledge and these strategies are and how they can be presented to students. Akin to model building, reading comprehension involves a variety of behaviors…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Independent Reading, Instructional Improvement, Metacognition
Carter, Sylvia McCoy – 1976
The purposes of this study were: (1) to investigate the general interests and the reading interests of pupils in first grade through third grade and (2) to investigate teachers' skills in interpreting interest data and in choosing literature for children. The sample consisted of 521 pupils and 18 teachers. Reading interests of the children were…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Doctoral Dissertations, Independent Reading, Literature Appreciation
Henderson, Edmund H.; Long, Barbara H. – 1970
The independent reading behavior of 150 achieving fifth graders was investigated. Attention was directed toward the quality and variety of choice as well as to the number of books read. These variables were intercorrelated with standardized achievement tests, IQ, and a number of noncognitive and demographic variables. Indices of quantity, variety,…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Grade 5, Independent Reading, Individual Reading
Peer reviewedAlgra, CeCelia; Fillbrandt, James – Reading Improvement, 1971
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Independent Reading, Paperback Books, Reading Habits
Peer reviewedWilson, Jenny; Moon, Cliff – Reading, 1991
Studies the views of parents and teachers on how they might effectively support independent readers. Examines children's views on parental involvement. Finds that the survey heightened interest in reading and literature among children and their parents. (MG)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Family School Relationship, Independent Reading, Parent Attitudes
Reinking, David; Watkins, Janet – 1996
Using an approach to classroom research that D. Newman (1990) has termed a formative experiment, a study investigated the effects of engaging elementary school students in creating computer-based multimedia reviews of books they read independently. Formative experiments are designed to investigate how an instructional intervention can be…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Grade 4
Smith, Arthur E. – 1993
A teacher educator incorporates active involvement of students and choice in two different college classrooms. The first class was an undergraduate reading/literacy education class. Students were offered the choice of the RAP (Reading Addiction Process) option or taking the final exam. Students read materials of their own choice on a daily basis.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Higher Education
PDF pending restorationLynch-Brown, Carol – 1977
To determine whether children find paperback books more appealing than hardbound books, children's reactions to paperback books were compared with their reactions to the same titles in hardbound format. A total of 150 fifth graders were divided into two groups: 78 children (42 boys and 36 girls) examined 30 hardbound books, and 72 children (38…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Grade 5
