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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Young Readers"”.
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How reader and task characteristics influence young readers’ comprehension monitoring
Comprehension monitoring is defined as the process by which reader’s evaluate and regulate their understanding of text (e.g., Baker, 1985). Comprehension monitoring is an important component skill of reading comprehension (e.g., Cain, Oakhill & Bryant, 2004). Despite the importance of comprehension …
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Gender Positioning in Textbook Images and Their Interpretation by Young Readers in Nepal
… representations of gender and understandings of young children in a social context. Practically, this study contributes to the field of Nepalese education regarding the value of images in textbooks. The findings from this study also have policy implications in gender and other representative …
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How multi-dimensional reading, facilitated by differentiation & choice, motivates young readers: a case-study of a Reading Workshop
… the development of intrinsic motivation in readers. This study explores the authors’ experience of this research through a social constructivist lens and a self-study action research methodology. Qualitative data was collected in the form of openended participant questionnaires, interviews …
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Speaking for the Trees: Critical Analyses Concerning Young Readers’ Responses to the Representation of Environmental Issues in Picturebooks.
… ecologically attuned attitudes and practices to young readers. I also analyse how these texts can open up spaces for young readers to reinforce, challenge and augment their own ideas in relation to the natural world, as well as associated environmental issues. To achieve these research aims, I …
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Children's meaning-making with narrative apps in early years: investigating the interplay between young readers, teachers, and app design
… reading practices. By conceptualising readers as 'co-designers,' the research explores how children, teachers, and app developers collectively engage in the co-design of narrative apps and contribute to meaning-making processes. The study employed a qualitative, ethnographic …
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Reading queer subtexts in children’s literature
… the literature published and made available to young readers, and how, often, overtly queer texts are not available for young readers. Such omissions leave young readers, especially those with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgendered (LGBT) identities, to find depictions of queerness in …
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Devleopmnet of Distriubted Nueral Sysetms for Readnig in Heatlhy and Brian-Injrued Chlidren (If you can read this, you have a well-developed whole word reading system. It should read Development of Distributed Neural Systems for Reading in Healthy and Brain-Injured Children)
… to favor one or the other reading strategy in young readers aged 7-10. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) recordings demonstrate that more proficient young readers use inferior frontal regions rather than dorsal inferior parietal and temporal phonological regions during the direct …
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Exploring Tanzanian Students’ Experiences and Engagement with English-Language Books in School Library Spaces
… the cultural backgrounds or experiences of young readers. Consequently, scholars have expressed concerns that book donations continue to reinforce not only the imperialistic hegemony of the English language in postcolonial settings, but also Western, English-speaking culture. While my study …
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Writing and Designing Science Trade Books for Young Adolescents: Model Development and Application
… considerate text and appropriate appeal for the readers. The model was tested by planning and writing a science chapter for a trade book. Then, the chapter was revised in two separate ways, (a) by analyzing reader protocols and (b) by incorporating the comments of a professional editor, to …
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Hermione syndrome: Reexamining feminist sidekicks and power in 2000-2010 children’s and young adult fantasy literature
… of English language fantasy texts for young readers. In the wake of <em>Harry Potter’s</em> success, many other fantasy series followed patterns laid down in Rowling’s text, including writing female characters as Hermione-shaped girls and women. While there are positive aspects to these …
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Print networks and youth information culture: young people, amateur publishing, and children’s periodicals, 1867–1890
Thousands of young people throughout the 1870s and 1880s participated in the production of amateur newspapers and actively developed print networks to facilitate communication and the circulation of information among geographically dispersed peers, most of whom they had never met and would never …
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The Effects of Detailed Visual Analysis of Words Using Magnetic Letters for Remedial Reading Students in the First Grade
… lessons for the acquisition of new words for young readers. The results of this study showed no statistically significant word recognition improvement from lessons including a detailed analysis of the graphemes of words using magnetic letters.
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Fictitious Ecology
… intended audience for The Mountain Fog book is young elementary schoolers and the essay reveals how these elements come together to craft a method of thinking for young readers. It points out how children’s picture books and reimagined environments are evolving to allow appreciation of nature …
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Neurodivergent Narratives: Restorying Neurodiversity in Twenty-First Century Middle Grade Literature
… futures where neurodivergent characters—and young readers—thrive as the authors and protagonists of their own life stories.
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Die hantering van identiteite in Afrikaanse voorgeskrewe romans in Suid-Afrika na apartheid : 'n kritiese evaluering = The treatment of identities in Afrikaans prescribed novels in post-apartheid South Africa : a critical appraisal
… is an important source of cultural knowledge for young readers. It helps shape their perceptions of reality and teaches them what to expect from the world and the people around them. Therefore, it is important to do a communicative analysis of the literature that is prescribed for schools, in …
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Emerging Readers and Inferential Comprehension with Wordless Narrative Picturebooks: An intervention study
… a skill not explicitly taught to many emergent readers. This study looked at wordless picturebooks and how they could be used with linguistic prompting to develop inferential thinking in young readers, building on the work of Grolig et al. (2020). The study involved a a quasi-experimental, …
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The Golden Heroine: An Analysis of the Domestic Heroine in Golden Age Children's Literature
… an obvious motive, authors also provided their young readers with tales of adventure and wonderment. Although young girls during the time were still socially discouraged from reading the same stories as boys, what books that were made to be accessible to them came to feature a special kind of …
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Imaginary Friends: Engaging the Unconscious Mind through Picture Books
… the benefits of imaginative play and fantasy in readers by Gianni Rodari and J.R.R. Tolkien, I find the value of the liminal nature of the imaginary friend in children’s literature. Ultimately, I argue for its function as a doorway for young readers to engage with the world of picture books in …
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Transmitting Whiteness: Librarians, Children, and Race, 1900-1930s
… by collecting good books specifically for young readers while providing safe, comfortable spaces that encouraged an atmosphere of instructive entertainment.</p> <p>Supplemental to the development of a unique children’s department, library administrators sought strong working relationships …
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The Influence of Text on Coherence of Story Retells, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Acquisition, and Eye Gaze: A Computer-Based Story Telling Task with Eye Tracking
… both the creators of these platforms and the young readers viewing them. The current study examined the effect of orthography on vocabulary acquisition and narrative comprehension in young readers (children in 2<sup>nd </sup>and 3<sup>rd</sup> grade, ages 6-9) during a computer-based …
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