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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Attitude Toward Reading"”.
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The Influence of Role-playing on a Reluctant Reader's Attitude Toward Reading
… value, and prompting visualization to aid in reading comprehension. The author conducts a qualitative study with a single student, who receives therapy for disabilities associated with an injury, and has demonstrated significant reluctance to read. The student reads at below his grade level. …
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Reading achievement and attitude toward reading of elementary students receiving supplementary computer assisted instruction compared with students receiving supplementary traditional instruction
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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A Comparative Study of Reading Achievement Growth and Attitude toward Reading When Instructed Through a Basal Reader Manual or Sanders’ Questioning Technique
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the reading achievement growth and to analyze the reading attitudes of seventh grade students when they are subjected to different methods of teacher questions. The two approaches used were: (1) the Basal Text Guidebook questioning approach, and (2) the …
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A study to determine the correlation between student attitude toward reading and reading achievement of boys and girls at various grade levels in urban, suburban, and rural school settings
… the significance of the correlation between. reading achievement and attitude toward reading. This relationship was further analyzed by comparing correlations utilizing the following variables: sex, grade level, and socioeconomic settings.The following information was available for each …
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The effects of lesson preparation and teaching of reading and the effects of reinforcement inherent in the teaching role on the reading performance and attitude toward reading of low-reading sixth grade tutors
… effects of lesson preparation and teaching of reading and the effects of reinforcement inherent in the teaching role on reading comprehension, vocabulary, and attitude toward the concept "reading." Subjects for the study were low reading sixth graders.In this study equivalent groups were used …
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The Relationship Between Student Attitudes Toward Reading and Student Test Scores
… to determine if a correlation existed between reading achievement and attitude toward reading. Of these students, fifty were randomly selected for data presentation. The Intermediate Reading Attitude Index and Georgia Criterion Reference Test were used to obtain data.</p> <p>The Georgia …
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The Effects of a Dual Reading Program on First Grade Students’ Attitudes Toward and Perceptions of Reading
… the effect of a language experience approach to reading used in conjunction with a basal-reader program on students' attitudes toward and perceptions of reading at the first grade level. A sample population of twenty-six students was drawn from two, first grade classes in a middle income, …
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A Study of the Recreational Book Reading Habits of Selected Fifth-Grade Children
… exist between these two groups in terms of sex, attitude toward reading, and reading achievement. A selected number of these pupils were interviewed to determine their expressed motivations for reading or for not reading books for recreation.
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The Effects of Criterion-Referenced Reading Program on Attitude and Achievement
… third grade students on a criterion-referenced reading test and their attitudes toward reading. The instruments used were the Spencerport/Houghton Mifflin Criterion-Referenced Test-Read (CRT) and the Fiddler Reading Attitude Questionnaire (FRAT). There were two heterogeneously grouped classes …
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Cross-Age Tutoring
… at San Jose Catholic School would benefit from reading skills practice that would give them the opportunity to become more involved in the learning process. This project is designed to implement cross-age tutoring at San Jose Catholic School with an entire sixth grade class tutoring a second …
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Reading Attitudes - Are They Affected by the Methods of Instruction?
… whether a whole language approach to beginning reading instruction makes a significant difference in kindergarten children's attitudes toward reading. The sample consists of 39 kindergarten children. Two groups were assessed. One group received reading instruction through a traditional basal …
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Attitudes of Seventh Grade Students Toward Reading Using А Literature-Based Approach
… of a literature-based approach to teaching reading on student attitudes toward reading. Relatively few studies have been conducted to describe students' attitudes toward reading in a literature-based approach which includes the following: the use of children's literature, silent reading by …
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The Effect of an Elective Independent Reading Program on Reading Scores and Interest in Reading in the Ninth Grade at Kurtz Junior High School, Des Moines, Iowa
… young people in today's society do not enjoy reading books as a leisure time activity, possibly because of methods of teaching or treating reading in the schools today. Independent reading classes are an attempt to overcome resistance to reading. The purpose of this study was to determine …
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A Study of the Reading Interests and Attitudes of Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grade Gifted Children in the State of Missouri
The purpose of this study was to identify the reading interests of fourth, fifth, and sixth grade gifted students. The study was further implemented to identify the gifted's attitudes toward reading and their reading habits. The data were gathered from the 69 state-assisted gifted programs in …
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Book buddies : celebrating shared reading
This thesis describes a project involving reading books with a partner, and writing about the experience in journals kept by each of the partnerships. There were two groups of participants partnered together: one comprised of 12-13 year-old English second language (ESL) learners, and the other, …
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Assisted reading as a remedial reading technique at the high school level: a psycholinguistic evaluation
… if seven high school students with a history of reading problems would demonstrate more effective use of the graphophonic, syntactic, and semantic cue systems involvement in reading by means of a whole language approach. The underlying assumption of this study was that students who experience …
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A comparison of the oral student responses in a class using simulation games prior to reading selected short stories and a class not using simulation games
… the use of simulation board games prior to reading selected short stories would result in oral student responses which were different from the responses made by students who had not played the games before reading the stories. The nature of the responses was investigated; the number of …