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Brechtje E. J. van Zeijts; Lesya Y. Ganushchak; Bjorn B. de Koning; Huib K. Tabbers – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Inference-making is a central element of successful reading comprehension, yet provides a challenge for beginning readers. Text decoding takes up cognitive resources which prevents beginning readers from successful inference-making and compromises reading comprehension. Listening does not require any decoding and could therefore offer a less…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Listening
Conradi Smith, Kristin; Jang, Bong Gee – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
Although both theory and research assert the importance of a reader's self-concept, we lack a nuanced understanding of the underlying subcomponents of reading self-concept as they relate to achievement and whether this relationship might differ for developing readers. In the present study, we examined the reading self-concepts of nearly 500 4th…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Reading Achievement
Dolba, Sammy Q.; Gula, Louie P.; Nunez, Jayrome L. – Online Submission, 2022
This research aims to determine the teachers' reading style, determine their reading speed, and determine which reading methods are the teachers' strengths and weaknesses utilizing a thorough evaluation of reading techniques from Hawker Brownlow Education. Using pre-determined reading materials. Using Google Forms, this study utilized the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Teachers, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies
Morris, Darrell; Gill, Tom – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
This article asserts that a carefully administered informal reading inventory (IRI) provides important information on low-achieving readers that is "not" provided by an end-of-grade standardized reading test. Using case studies of students' IRI performance, we address the concept of instructional level and the necessity of teaching low…
Descriptors: Informal Reading Inventories, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Low Achievement
Margaret Osgood Opatz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to determine the extent to which preservice teachers could identify various academic language markers (general academic and discipline-specific vocabulary, passive voice, nominalization, logical connections, and referents--pronouns and synonyms) in complex texts and describe the language that make texts…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Academic Language, Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes
Ryan Klinger – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2024
Studies relating to the vocabulary items within EFL textbooks have revealed a divergence from well-researched wordlists such as the New General Service List (NGSL) (Browne et al., 2013), and the BNC/COCA wordlist (Nakayama, 2022; Sun and Dang, 2020). In Japan, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) recently…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Word Frequency, Junior High Schools, English (Second Language)
Kearns, Devin M.; Hiebert, Elfrieda H. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
The Common Core State Standards emphasize the need for U.S. students to read complex texts. As a result, the level of word complexity for primary-level texts is important, particularly the dimensions of and changes in complexity between first grade and the important third-grade high-stakes testing year. In this study, we addressed word complexity…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Differences, Grade 1, Grade 3
Nie, Bruce; Deacon, Hélène; Fyshe, Alona; Epp, Carrie Demmans – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
A child's ability to understand text (reading comprehension) can greatly impact both their ability to learn in the classroom and their future contributions to society. Reading comprehension draws on oral language; behavioural measures of knowledge at the word and sentence levels have been shown to be related to children's reading comprehension. In…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Word Order, Sentence Structure, Grade 3
Samantha J. Russell; J. Jessica Wang; Kate Cain – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Anthropomorphized animal characters have been associated with negative influences on educational outcomes for young children, for example story comprehension and prosocial learning from moral tales. In this study we investigate how character realism and moral theme influence young children's recall of the story content. Retells…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Story Reading, Childrens Literature, Animals
Dreama Carroll – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Reading is one of the most important skills that students learn in elementary school. The problem addressed in this study is the decrease in proficiency of reading comprehension when primary grade students are assessed using a digital device to read and respond to instead of reading a text from a paper-based test. The purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices, Reading Instruction, Cognitive Processes
Amanda S. Hovious – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Educators often inquire about the readability of books and other documents used in the classroom, with the idea that readability supports students' reading comprehension and growth. Documents used in classrooms tend to be language-based, so readability metrics have long focused on the complexity of language. However, such metrics are unsuitable…
Descriptors: Readability, Reading Comprehension, Learning Modalities, Grade 8
Lisa M. Domke; María A. Cerrato; Elizabeth H. Sanders; Michael Vo – Language and Education, 2025
Because word problems present mathematical information through a scenario, they are language-intensive and require mathematical and reading comprehension skills to solve them. In addition, they are linguistically complex, which makes them challenging for all learners, especially multilingual learners. Given the rising number of dual-language…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills
Jake Downs; Chase Young – Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This matched-sample study investigates the use of a wide range of texts of varying--and often challenging--complexity to promote fluency for students experiencing below grade level achievement. We designed a repeated-reading protocol called 'Read Like Us', and performed a pilot implementation in small groups with third- and fourth-grade students…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Reading Fluency, Reading Instruction, Grade 3
Hackemann, Timo; Heine, Lena; Höttecke, Dietmar – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2022
Students with high reading proficiency typically achieve better results in science assessments, indicating the importance of reading proficiency. Since the process of reading is a complex interaction between properties of a text and a reader, the linguistic demands of a text might affect text comprehension. Certain linguistic features, such as…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Physics, Reader Text Relationship, Linguistics
Cruz Neri, Nadine; Retelsdorf, Jan – Exceptional Children, 2022
Previous research illustrated that reading comprehension and science performance correlate highly. Because students with specific learning disorders with impairments in reading (SLD-IR) show deficits in reading comprehension, they may struggle to perform in science. As language in science is characterized by linguistic complexity, the question…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension, Science Achievement