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How Much Should Young Children Read? A Study of the Relationship between Development and Instruction
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McIntyre, Ellen; Rightmyer, Elizabeth; Powell, Rebecca; Powers, Sherry; Petrosko, Joseph – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2006
The purpose of this article is to question the amount of time that beginning readers should spend reading connected text in school. Based on a study of 66 children in 26 classrooms, the authors found that children in first-grade classrooms with "less" reading of connected text achieved more in their phonics learning than children in classrooms…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Phonics, Beginning Reading, Reading Achievement