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Farry-Thorn, Molly; Treiman, Rebecca – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Children's early knowledge and skills set the stage for later reading development. The present studies examined children's conceptual knowledge of reading prior to formal literacy instruction. Young children's knowledge about who is able to read books and what readers are reading when they read books has been studied primarily through interviews.…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Preschool Children, Animals, Concept Formation
Ome, Alejandro; Menendez, Alicia – Education Economics, 2022
We evaluate an intervention using SMS messaging to send short stories to 2nd and 3rd graders in Zambia's Eastern province, aimed at improving reading skills. For nine months households received three text messages weekly comprising a short story for children to read with their families, and a question about the story. Additionally, parents…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3
Knox, Emily J. M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
Books are often the targets of anti-intellectual censorship efforts in schools for two reasons. First, they are integral to the process and practice of reading, which is how people encounter new ideas. Second, the coercive nature of curriculum means that students must read books with controversial ideas. Emily Knox argues that the people who…
Descriptors: Books, Censorship, Anti Intellectualism, Reading
Porter, Heather D.; Kim, Koomi; Franzak, Judith K.; MacDonald, Katherine – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2020
As one of multiple ways to explore the reading process, eye movement miscue analysis is a tool that provides a continuous record of eye fixations and movements over an entire text, and a record of the oral reading of that text and the miscues (observed responses) that readers produce. The authors present profiles of two successful college readers…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Miscue Analysis, Oral Reading, College Students
Martin-Chang, Sandra; Kozak, Stephanie; Levesque, Kyle C.; Calarco, Navona; Mar, Raymond A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Leisure reading is associated with several important educational and cognitive benefits, and yet fewer and fewer young adults are reading in their free time. To better study what drives leisure reading in undergraduates, we developed the Predictors of Leisure Reading (PoLR) scale. The PoLR investigates key predictors of leisure reading, namely…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Recreational Reading, Fiction, Nonfiction
Kimberly Jean Perry – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A problematic imbalance of academic discrepancies continues to exist within our schools today, leading to school failure for many of our students. Teachers must be prepared to provide effective instructional methods that increase the reading outcomes for all students. The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the perceptions of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Reading Instruction, Reading Habits
Tamara T. Gatewood-Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The sequential mixed-methods study was conducted to examine the effects of a transactional intervention with emphasis on background knowledge, questioning, and motivation; that galvanize the meaning of the construction process to internalize strategies, promote engaging discussion of the text, and shift students from the observer to the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
Melissa van der Elst-Koeiman; Eliane Segers; Ronald Severing; Ludo Verhoeven – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2025
This study examined how Papiamento and Dutch attitude and home literacy environment of 168 children in fourth grade of the post-colonial Dutch Caribbean, predicted L1 and L2 reading literacy in sixth grade. Overall, children had higher scores for reading literacy in L1 Papiamento as compared with L2 Dutch. They showed more positive attitudes…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Indo European Languages, Literacy, Native Language
Frey, Nancy; Fisher, Douglas – Reading Teacher, 2018
The authors analyzed 88 classroom observations to determine whether there were actions that teachers were taking to send a message to students that rereading was not valuable. They identified three practices during shared reading, guided reading, and independent reading that telegraphed messages to students against rereading. The authors also…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Repetition, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
Spann, Harald; Wagner, Thomas – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2023
This paper reports results from a quantitative curriculum study on literature modules in Austrian undergraduate teacher education programmes. In order to optimise course delivery in literature classes at the University College of Education Upper Austria (PHOÖ), reading habits and attitudes of 153 first-year EFL students for secondary school…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Oxley, Emily; McGeown, Sarah – Educational Research, 2023
Background: In many educational systems internationally, promoting reading for pleasure (RfP) is embedded within curricula and practice. Primary school teachers regularly and routinely engage in activities designed to encourage and sustain children's reading enjoyment. However, what are children's perspectives and experiences of these different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Recreational Reading, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
Jennifer L. Grow – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Reading motivation is an important contributor to reading achievement. Students with higher levels of motivation tend to outperform those with lower levels. Reading motivation is a dynamic, situational, context-dependent trait that can vary in children over time and across tasks. Teachers have a valuable opportunity to support students' reading…
Descriptors: Validity, Reading Motivation, Measures (Individuals), Elementary School Students
Filiz Kara – African Educational Research Journal, 2023
The present study aimed to establish the relationship between middle school students' attitudes toward science and the environment with their love, respect, responsibility, empathy, aggression, bullying tendencies and attitudes toward reading. One of the most general survey models, the relational survey model was employed in the study, and it was…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Environmental Education
Jerasa, Sarah E.; Ely, Lauren; Hutchison, Laveria – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2023
Teachers hold significant power to determine which books or printed materials students might access, choose, or reject. It is important to consider how teachers' objectives, understandings, or perspectives serve as literacy sponsorship and implicitly privilege or suppress which texts, genres, or authors students access. This case study examines…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Material Selection, Teacher Role, Libraries
Loh, Chi Ee; Sun, Baoqi; Leong, Chan-Hoong – Harvard Educational Review, 2022
In this article, Chin Ee Loh, Baoqi Sun, and Chan-Hoong Leong utilize a critical spatial perspective to examine how students from different socioeconomic statuses access reading resources at home, in school, and in the community. Using Geographic Information System (GIS) data, they evaluate the distribution of reading resources in Singapore by…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Geographic Location, Foreign Countries, Libraries