Reading Improvement articles from March 2008

Reading Improvement archives from March 2008

Literacy bags to encourage family involvement.(Report)
March 22, 2008... Introduction Families need to take part in their children's literacy development. Thousands of hours of parent-child interaction provides the foundation for language and literacy development (Enz, 2003). Parents are very important role...

Are education majors really reading among the least in Taiwan? A closer investigation.
March 22, 2008... The topic of practicing and prospective teachers' readership has received attention in reading research, but there is a gap in Western studies when it comes to comparing teachers' reading status with that of the general population. With data...

Psychometric properties and correlates of the Robert Morris attention scale.(Report)
March 22, 2008... A brief self-report measure of attention for college students, the Robert Morris Attention Scale (RMAS), was administered to two samples (n = 150 and n = 140) of undergraduate students. The scale had adequate internal consistency and measured a...

How is contextualized spelling used to support reading in first-grade core reading programs?(Report)
March 22, 2008... There is some evidence that reading and spelling are complementary processes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which contextualized spelling (i.e., spelling activities within the context of reading instruction) is used...

Psychology of parental involvement in reading.
March 22, 2008... Parent/teacher conferences are a must to secure parental cooperation in the education of their offspring. The support and inclusion of parents can make for an improved curriculum for pupils. There is much that parents can tell the teacher about...