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The Development of Achievement Strategies and Academic Skills during the First Year of Primary School.
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Onatsu-Arvilommi, Tiina; Nurmi, Jari-Erik; Aunola, Kaisa – Learning and Instruction, 2002
Studied whether children's achievement strategies predict the development of their reading and mathematics skills during the first school year or whether these skills predict changes in their achievement strategies. Findings for 105 Finnish first graders show that maladaptive strategies hamper improvement in reading and mathematics; skills did not…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beginning Reading, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Improving Reading through Thinking Aloud.
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Silven, Maarit; Vauras, Marja – Learning and Instruction, 1992
Effects of training in thinking aloud on the development of reading skills were examined for 64 sixth graders in 2 Finnish towns. Trainees adopted five of seven text processing strategies they were taught and were most responsive when the trainer modeled thinking aloud and guided students in the activity. (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 6