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Hutchison, Amy C.; Woodward, Lindsay; Colwell, Jamie – Reading Research Quarterly, 2016
The online reading, writing, and communication practices of students have been of significant interest to literacy researchers and teachers throughout the last several years, as insights into what students are currently doing in and outside of school can inform what they can be expected to know and be able to do in digital environments. Yet,…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Elementary School Students, Reading Instruction, Grade 4
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McKeown, Margaret G.; Beck, Isabel L.; Blake, Ronette G. K. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2009
Reports from research and the larger educational community demonstrate that too many students have limited ability to comprehend texts. The research reported here involved a two-year study in which standardized comprehension instruction for representations of two major approaches was designed and implemented. The effectiveness of the two…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Instructional Effectiveness
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Saint-Aubin, Jean; Klein, Raymond M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2008
When skilled readers search for a target letter while reading for comprehension, they miss the target letter more often when it is embedded in high-frequency function words than in less frequent content words. The magnitude of this "missing-letter-effect" (MLE) was investigated among 180 first- to fifth-grade students as a function of…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Form Classes (Languages), Elementary School Students, Achievement Tests
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Malloy, Jacquelynn A., Comp.; Botza, Stergios, Comp. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2005
This is a compilation of reports on international literacy research. The report includes 3 separate reports on France, United Kingdom and Brazil. In the first report, research correspondent Jacques Fijalkow presents research into variations of reading motivation related to students' socioeconomic status (SES), age, and gender. Three of these…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Reading Motivation, Foreign Countries, Grade 5