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Children's Reading and Attitude Change
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Analogical reasoning in children's reading and addition
… to examine the role of analogical reasoning in children's early reading and addition and to look for possible commonalities in children's performance across these two educational contexts. The research comprised four studies. Study I was a preliminary investigation of individual differences in …
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Improving children's reading comprehension skills through parental involvement
… examine the effects of parental involvement upon children's reading achievement. The study investigated whether children with learning difficulty would improve reading comprehension when parents became actively involved in their child's reading activities. Five 3rd and 4th grade students attending …
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The effects of word characteristics on children's reading
… the effects of word characteristics on children's reading performance. The experiments investigating word imagery and age of acquisition showed that imagery was a highly significant word characteristic for less skilled readers. There was an age of acquisition effect which was inversely …
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Stages in Chinese Children's Reading of English Words
… examined the developmental stages in Chinese children's reading of English words in 118 English as a second language (ESL) children from Grade 2, 4, and 6 (M age = 7:6, 10:5, and 12:5 years, respectively) from a working-class elementary school in Tian Jin, China. Six ability tests measuring …
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Utilisation of digital media in improving children's reading habits
… adult and child stakeholders, but encouraging children who have the choice to either read from a book or on a screen remains limited worldwide, including Jordan. This interest has meant that data about children¿s reading habits were needed, and the present study was intended as a contribution …
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Predicting Chinese Children's Reading Development From Kindergarten to Second Grade
… have implications for how best to teach Chinese children to learn to read. It may affect the teaching methods currently used and offer parents ways to help their children to learn at home. Moreover, the results are expected to lead to a better understanding of how normal Chinese reading …
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The Effect of Repeated Read-Aloud Strategy on Preschool Children's Reading Comprehension
… of the repeated read-aloud strategy on preschool children's reading comprehension. The repeated read-aloud strategy calls for a book to be read aloud at least twice to one or more individuals over several days or weeks. This study followed a quasi-experimental research design. Fourteen …
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Family Socioeconomic Status And Children's Reading Ability: The Buffering Effect Of Parental Social Support
… that social support has on the development of reading in children from a range of SES backgrounds. Because other studies have suggested the importance of teacher quality on children's reading ability, this was also tested. This study utilized a sample taken from the public-use version of the …
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An examination of the effects of reading instruction and gender differences on children's reading
… is to explore a number of areas relating to children’s reading. The experimental studies were designed to investigate reading strategies, attitudes to reading and underlying cognitive processes. However the focus within each of them is to examine the effects of reading instruction and gender. …
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The democratic vision of teaching literature: preschool bilingual children's reading of literature with social justice
… of the contributions of previous studies about children’s literature, there is still a startling lack of knowledge about how children’s literature that deals with racial/cultural diversity can be incorporated into preschool and bilingual children’s classrooms. In order to address this gap in the …
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Seriously, what are they reading? An analysis of Korean children's reading behavior regarding Educational Graphic Novels
… Educational Graphic Novels (EGNs) in Korea and children’s use of this medium. In order to elicit voices of children who are the main readers of EGNs, in-depth focus group interviews were conducted with fourteen Korean children ages seven to eleven. Interviews with teachers and librarians who …
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An examination of the influence of cognitive, motivational, and behavioural factors on children's reading skill and development
… better understanding of the factors influencing children’s reading skill and reading development. In particular, the experimental studies were designed to investigate the influence of cognitive skills, motivational factors, and behavioural factors on children’s reading attainment. The results …
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Parental reading beliefs, home literacy practices, and children's development: Examination of a parental reading beliefs model in China
… in the United States demonstrate that parental reading beliefs are significantly influenced by demographic characteristics, and their beliefs are significant predictors of home literacy practices and children's literacy development. Based on these findings, a model of parental reading beliefs …
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Development of Morphological Awareness in Chinese and English
… correlation between morphological awareness and reading proficiency was higher among Taiwanese students than American students, morphological awareness appears to be more important for Chinese-speaking children's reading development than English-speaking children's reading development.
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Children's motivation towards reading
The aim of the study was to find out about children's reading motivation. To conduct the study, the 'Motivation to Read Profile' (MRP) was used. It consisted of two basic instruments: the Reading Survey and the Conversational Interview. The MRP assessed children's self-concept as readers and the …
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A metacognitive approach to teaching reading comprehension in the primary school classroom
… of motacognitive theory to the development of children's reading comprehension. It does so by evaluating the effects of a metacomprehension training programme on children's reading comprehension. In so doing the thesis draws together the three strands of theory, teaching practice, and …
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