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Nele Bleukx; Katrijn Denies; Hilde Van Keer; Koen Aesaert – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Background: Reading and reading comprehension are crucial skills, yet many students in grade 4 struggle with them. To address this, several instructional practices have gained popularity. For one, explicit reading strategy instruction (ERSI) is deemed useful, given the finding that successful readers tend to employ reading strategies. As a second…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods
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Lu Guo; Jian Wang; Jaehoon Lee; Mellinee Lesley – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
For years, educational practitioners and decision-makers have encouraged teachers to implement a balanced literacy approach in class. However, the effects of balanced literacy on the reading comprehension of students from different backgrounds have not been carefully examined in the current literature. Using the large data sets from the 2016…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, English Language Learners
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Joyce Mokobe; Jo Badenhorst; Luzaan Schlebusch – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2025
Background: Proficient reading skills are crucial for Foundation Phase learners to develop critical thinking and problem-solving abilities. The 2021 PIRLS assessment highlighted alarmingly low reading proficiency among ten-year-olds. Effective reading instruction, and a positive reading environment are essential for developing confident, skilled…
Descriptors: African Languages, Reading Skills, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Marcela Veselkova – European Education, 2024
Students living in poverty tend to perform worse in school than their peers from better-off families. This paper examines whether computer availability helps narrow down educational inequalities in Slovakia, using TIMSS and PIRLS data. The results show that computer availability in reading lessons improves reading scores and that the effect is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Mathematics Tests