ERIC Number: EJ1407221
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 13
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Effect of Nutrition on Children's Reading Ability
Chikondi Maleta; Edrinnie Elizabeth Lora-Kayambazinthu; Patrick Kambewa; Anthony Chigeda
Educational Planning, v30 n3 p49-61 2023
Early nutrition supplementation's effect on children's reading ability was assessed during the conduct of the study. The study methodology followed children who participated in an early nutrition supplementation intervention and conducted a reading test to measure how well the children read. The effect of school resource endowment on student reading ability was assessed. School resources as a lead effect on variations in reading performance through a fixed effect regression model was discounted and confirmed that early nutrition supplementation explains variations in reading performance. However, it was found that school resources accessibility on factors such as library availability and access to reading textbooks post classroom lessons to children complements the acquisition of reading skills in children. The policy implication from the findings calls for the domestication of reading curricula and leveraging the children's nutrition to sustain reading gains.
Descriptors: Nutrition, Reading Skills, Intervention, Reading Achievement, Resources, Nutrition Instruction, Food, Child Health, Toddlers, Young Children, Infants, Foreign Countries, Reading Materials, Textbooks, School Libraries
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Identifiers - Location: Malawi
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