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Wexler, Jade; Reed, Deborah K.; Sturges, Keith – Exceptionality, 2015
This multi-phasic, qualitative study explored the perceptions and provision of research-based reading instruction in the juvenile correctional facility setting. In three settings in two states, we interviewed students (n = 17), teachers (n = 5), and administrators (n = 3); and conducted two focus groups (n = 8), student surveys (n = 49), and seven…
Descriptors: Juvenile Justice, Correctional Institutions, Qualitative Research, Reading Instruction
Willingham, Daniel T. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2015
Everyone agrees that reading is important, but kids today tend to lose interest in reading before adolescence. In "Raising Kids Who Read", bestselling author and psychology professor Daniel T. Willingham explains this phenomenon and provides practical solutions for engendering a love of reading that lasts into adulthood. Like…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Attitudes, Decoding (Reading), Reading Comprehension
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Chen, I-Jung; Chen, Wen-Chun – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2016
This study examines the enhancing effect of peer annotation on the academic English reading of nonnative-Englishspeaking graduate students. To facilitate peer collaboration, the present study included the development of a strategybased online reading system. Through peer annotation, the students not only achieved enhanced reading comprehension but…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Reading Comprehension, Notetaking
Scholastic Inc., 2019
The "Kids & Family Reading Report" is a national survey sharing the views of both kids and parents on reading books for fun and the influences that impact kids' reading frequency and attitudes toward reading. "The Rise of Read-Aloud" is one installment the Scholastic "Kids & Family Reading Report™: 7th…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Oral Reading, Emergent Literacy, Parent Role
Isero, Mark – Phi Delta Kappan, 2014
This author describes a reading project using Kindles that was designed to increase the reading habits of 9th graders. With a selection of 500 titles for classroom usage, students were encouraged to read any book they chose--in addition to those required for their school term. Isero states that, in the past, many of his students would not risk…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Habits, Books, Handheld Devices
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Ro, Eunseok; Chen, Cheng-Ling Alice – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2014
The present study replicated the methods and data analysis of Crawford Camiciottoli's (2001) study on second language (L2) reading behavior of academic English-as-a-foreign-language students. Using the original study's questionnaire, we investigated 60 advanced non-academic English-as-a-second-language learners' L2 reading frequency and attitude.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Recreational Reading, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits
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Hemmerechts, Kenneth; Agirdag, Orhan; Kavadias, Dimokritos – Educational Review, 2017
In this article, we explore the relationship between parental literacy activities with the child, socio-economic status (SES) and reading literacy. We draw upon the Bourdieusian theory of habitus development to explore this relationship. Multilevel analyses of a survey of 43,870 pupils (with an average age of 10 years) in 10 Western European…
Descriptors: Correlation, Socioeconomic Status, Elementary School Students, Literacy
Arslan Çavusoglu, Ayse; Tepebasili, Fatih – Online Submission, 2017
The main purpose of this study is to develop a scale for German teacher candidates' attitude towards the German reading. The scale was applied to 156 students who were enrolled in the Foreign Language Teaching Department of the Ahmet Kelesoglu Education Faculty, Necmettin Erbakan University. Out of 156 students, %14.1 (n = 22) were preparation…
Descriptors: German, Reading Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Behavior Rating Scales
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Durant, David M.; Horava, Tony – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
The e-book is raising fundamental questions around the dynamics and habits of reading; the role of books in the academic library; and the role of librarians in addressing new realities of reading and learning. Print and digital texts foster different styles of reading and different ways of thinking and doing research. This paper examines…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Reading, Reading Habits, Books
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Mohammadpur, Bijan; Ghafournia, Narjes – English Language Teaching, 2015
The present study was an elaboration on the effect of foreign language anxiety on reading comprehension achievement of Iranian EFL learners. The participants comprised 100 BA students, doing General English Course in different academic fields at Islamic University of Neyshabur. The participants took a reading proficiency test of TOEFL and answered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Reading Attitudes, Reading Achievement
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Lenihan, Dawn; McCobb, Emily; Diurba, Amanda; Linder, Deborah; Freeman, Lisa – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2016
Reading assistance dogs can be incorporated into reading programs to increase a child's desire and ability to read. However, more data is needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of such programs. A 5-week reading assistance dog program was implemented to assess feasibility and effectiveness. Participants included 18 children entering the 2nd grade…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Animals, Teaching Methods, Reading Attitudes
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Netten, Andrea; Luyten, Hans; Droop, Mienke; Verhoeven, Ludo – Journal of Research in Reading, 2016
This study examined how linguistic and sociocultural diversity have an impact on the reading literacy outcomes of a representative sample of 3,549 first-language (L1) and 208 second-language (L2) fourth-grade students in the Netherlands. A multilevel modelling analysis was conducted using Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 2006 data…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Grade 4
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Merga, Margaret K. – English in Education, 2016
The benefits of regular recreational reading for literacy development have been widely acknowledged, and as such, encouraging children to be life-long readers is an educational imperative. Teachers who are models of keen recreational reading can play an important role in fostering a keen love of reading in children, so that they regularly engage…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Recreational Reading, Teacher Role, Teaching Methods
International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2016
Fifty countries from around the world participated in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2016 international assessment of reading comprehension at the fourth grade, and in every country there was a wide range of reading achievement from basic skills to advanced comprehension. This report presents international findings…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, International Assessment
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Henk, William A.; Marinak, Barbara A.; Melnick, Steven A. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2013
This paper introduces a new affective instrument for assessing the reader self-perceptions of students in grades seven through ten. The Reader Self-Perception Scale 2 (RSPS2) builds upon its predecessor, the RSPS, a tool that measures the reading efficacy beliefs of children in grades four through six. New items were created for the RSPS2 to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Adolescents, Reading
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