Children`s Reading

Paul van den Broek Department of Educational Psychology University of Minnesota 178 Pillsbury Drive SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 Tel: (612) 626-1302 FAX: (612) 624-8241 pvdbroek@umn.edu ... Assessment of Comprehension Abilities in Young Children ... “To grasp the meaning of a thing, and event or a situation is to see it in its ... The ability to read is essential for successful functioning in society and therefore ... Doing so involves the execution and integration of many processes. These processes ... Nunes, Stahl, & Willows, 2001; Perfetti, 2003; ...

This article presents the results of a study that examined the interest and influence of gender of students studying in International schools in Sri Lanka on reading. The objectives of this study was to find the nature of reading interest of the primary school children and to examine whether it differ by gender. The sample was selected from three International schools in Colombo district. Data was collected through a questionnaire and analyzed with Chi-square test. Findings indicated that, boys preferred comic books and the girls opted to picture books. Reading Newspapers and web pages are not popular among students, despite computer was much preferred in the past. This could indicate that children prefer to read a book. Where genres are concerned, Mystery & Adventure and Fantasy are the selection of the majority. Both these fall into the fiction category which was confirmed by previous researches. Since a vast majority of the sample showed preference for series books as well as com...

Students analyzed the similarities (agreements) and differences (disagreements) between a set of two sources regarding why the authors thought Chicago had become a big city. The data we discuss provide descriptive information on three aspects of students' responses: (1) the response strategies they used, (2) how they would characterize agreement and disagreement across two sources, and (3) the rhetorical form of their written responses. Students' responses for Agree were more consistent than those to Disagree and, as expected, were related to the specific sources they compared.

Extensive reading of children’s literature can be seen as one of the most powerful means to acquiring a large working vocabulary for both first language learners and second language learners. However, for foreign language learners, children’s literature has a less positive image. For foreign language learners the most commonly recommended reading is of graded readers. Corpus research has shown that work for children has a wide range of rare words, comparable to adult literature, and this leads to the argument that children’s literature puts too great a comprehension and memory strain on foreign language learners, and is an inefficient learning tool compared to graded readers. This paper reviews existing research and examines the arguments for children’s literature in language learning in terms of some features of naturalistic child reading behaviour, and the stylistic choices of writers for children. Replication of child reading behaviours in conjunction with the aid to comprehensio...

Paul van den Broek Department of Educational Psychology University of Minnesota 178 Pillsbury Drive SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 Tel: (612) 626-1302 FAX: (612) 624-8241 pvdbroek@umn.edu ... Assessment of Comprehension Abilities in Young Children ... “To grasp the meaning of a thing, and event or a situation is to see it in its ... The ability to read is essential for successful functioning in society and therefore ... Doing so involves the execution and integration of many processes. These processes ... Nunes, Stahl, & Willows, 2001; Perfetti, 2003; ...

Abstract. This study investigated whether two groups of 6-year-old beginning readers taught to read by a phonics and by a “book experience” non-phonics approach would differ in reading comprehension as well as the processes of word recognition. The two groups were ...

For seven weeks, third-grade teachers and literacy coaches in Reading First schools met for hour-long peer-coaching study team meetings to work through a set of professional development modules called Eyes on Text (Brenner, Hiebert, Riley, Tompkins, & Holland, ...