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Recreational reading program for sixth grade students
… were to determine how much time was dedicated to recreational reading by sixth grade students and what were the topics and genres that interested them. Questionnaires were administered to 201 out of 257 regular education sixth grade students regardless of gender and reading level. According to the …
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Recreational reading : a case study of recreational reading habits of some primary school pupils and the role of the teacher-librarian in intervention strategies
An interest in the topic of recreational reading was prompted by the observations and experience of the researcher. The study that followed was intended to confirm or refute the theory of the decline of reading. A perceived decline in reading has concerned teachers and librarians and strategies …
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Interest and Content in Some Recreational Reading of Junior High School Students
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The Impact of Peer Discussion Groups on the Recreational Reading of Seventh Grade Students
Recreational reading is declining. The decline starts early in elementary school and rapidly accelerates during adolescence. Adolescent literacy is impacted on many fronts, including various factors in psychological, emotional, intellectual, academic, and social development. Because social factors …
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The Impact of Peer Discussion Groups on the Recreational Reading of Seventh Grade Students
Recreational reading is declining. The decline starts early in elementary school and rapidly accelerates during adolescence. Adolescent literacy is impacted on many fronts, including various factors in psychological, emotional, intellectual, academic, and social development. Because social factors …
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An investigation of recreational reading levels of fourth-graders with the reading levels obtained from an informal reading inventory
… was to compare the readability levels of the recreational reading books children selected to read with the reading levels of the children established by Powell's (1992) criteria for the Informal Reading Inventory. Using Fry's Readability Graph, a second purpose of this study was to compare the …
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The Effects of Weekly Sustained Silent Reading Time on Recreational Reading Habist and Attitudes ina 9th Grade English Class
<p>Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) has been around in various forms for over forty years. While this subject has received much study in the elementary schools, the influence of SSR on typical, non-at-risk high school students reading habits appears to be lacking. The purpose of this study is to …
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Examining the effect of motivational intervention on reading expectancies for success and task values of rural high school students : a quantitative study.
As a result of digital displacement, adolescent recreational reading is declining (Twenge et al., 2019). According to a recent Pew survey, 96% of teen respondents reported daily online engagement, and close to 50% described that engagement as almost constant (Faverio & Sidoti, 2024). Meanwhile, …
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Deterents to Reading and Methods to Support Students to Become Lifelong Readers
… parents must become aware of some inhibitors to recreational reading and know the best practices to combat them. An important step is determining the students’ attitude towards reading. Then, it may be possible to gauge what needs to be enhanced in the classroom or/and in the home. This research …
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An Investigation of Reading Instruction, Effective Teaching Patterns, and Perceptions of Fourth-Grade Teachers and Their Pupils
This study examined the differences in reading instructional behavior for a random sample of 12 fourth-grade teachers and its effects on the pupils' perceptions of the teaching-learning process, recreational reading habits, and attitudes toward reading.
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An Investigation of the Inter-relationship of Library Aptitudes and Library Skills Instruction at Central Avenue School, Tacoma, Washington
… library facilities and on the scope of their recreational reading, by means of an instrument designed to measure application of skills.
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The Correlation of Reading Outside School and Reading Proficiency
… investigate the relationship between time spent reading outside of school and reading proficiency, as measured by the Reading Comprehension component of the California Achievement Test. The underlying philosophy of this research stressed that the best way to develop reading ability is to provide …
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Perceptions of Out-of-School Reading Motivation for Female Middle School Students
… motivation to read is lacking in middle school reading classrooms. Educators struggle with the challenge of motivating students to read and actively engage with text both inside and outside of school. Research indicates that female and male middle school students have unique characteristics and …