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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Reading interest"”.
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Pupil team activity, reading interest choices, and reading achievement
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The Relationship Between Professed Student Reading Interest and Student Choice of Reading Topics
… Georgia school served as subjects for surveys of reading interests. The two surveys were designed to gather information from students for the book topics they professed to want to read, and the actual reported topics they read. Trends of Interest by subject and sex were generated. The survey …
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Reading Interest Congruence Between High Interest/Low Level Published Materials and Reading Interests of Students in an Alternative Junior High School
… study was to determine if the content of high interest/low level published reading materials were congruent with the topical reading interests of the students enrolled in an alternative school. Procedure. To determine the reading interests, an inventory was administered. Data were tabulated for …
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A Study of the Reading Interests of Fourth-Grade Boys and Girls, the Content of a Fourth-Grade Basal Reader, and the Relationship of Interests to Comprehension of the Content of the Basal Reader
This study was conducted to examine the interest of fourth-grade boys and girls and compare those interests to the content of a selected basal reader, and to correlate the reading interest to comprehension of the content of the basal reader. The subjects for this study were twenty-eight …
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A Comparative Investigation of the Affects of Parental Cooperation and No Known Parental Cooperation in Children’s Reading Skills
… experiences which contributed to their growth in reading skills and interests in the primary grades. This experiment was devised as a means to study reading difficulties in children from a low socioeconomic area, while, at the same time, parents were used to help overcome those problems. The main …
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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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Nonfiction and adolescent reading interests
Already popular with the general reading public, nonfiction can have a viable place in the English curriculum. However, in order to increase teacher as well as student enthusiasm for exploring this genre, nonfiction selections chosen for study in the English class must take into consideration …
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Reading through Brown Eyes: Toward Developing a Culturally Congruent Reading Curriculum
This inquiry examined the reading motivations of African American middle grade males and investigated why some African American males are more successful academically in reading than others. This investigative pathway traveled through the possible interconnected barriers relative to reading …
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Biblioteca Escolar: um recurso para a formação do leitor
… an indispensable resource to the development of reading as a social factor, permitting that it could be former of opinion, a critical and acting citizen that could comprehend himself and the world around him. It is believed that the reading practice needs to be encouraged early, in the familiar …
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Dikanegelo tsa bafsa tsa Sepedi
There is a dearth of reading-material in Sepedi for children and youths because the written and reading language in Sepedi is relatively young. Any written texts for children and youths must therefore be in such a way as to be of interest to them. Madiba was a pioneer in such writing. In view of …
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The development and evaluation of an outline of a course in physical science for eleventh and twelfth year students
… general scientific background for later thought, reading, interest, and general use in everyday life. 4. Many students who do go to college will not major in the scientific field and, therefore, do not need merely one special science in high school, but one in whose study there is the possibility …
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An evaluative study of the effect of pupil sharing on the selection of library books and on reading vocabulary
… of books borrowed, on the strengthening of reading interests, and on the improvement of vocabulary of second grade pupils.The study was conducted over a period of twelve weeks from the first pre test to the final post test.The subjects selected for the study were forty-two second grade …