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Download full textBongiwe Mtambo; Lindiwe Tshuma – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2023
Background: According to the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS, 2006 with 87%, 2011 with 82%, 2016 with 78%, 2021 with 81%), an international reading comprehension assessment conducted at the Grade 4 level, South African learners perform very poorly in reading comprehension, even when reading in their African home languages.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Reading Comprehension
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2023
Up until 2020, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading scores had increased only slightly since the early 1990s with large achievement gaps for students of color and students living in poverty. Modest gains in fourth grade reading proficiency since 1992 were erased during the pandemic. The insufficient progress in reading even…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Scores
Direct linkSchwab, Susanne; Seifert, Susanne; Gasteiger-Klicpera, Barbara – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2014
The study "Improving Language And Reading Skills (LARS) in children with German as a first or second language" evaluates a newly developed differentiating programme for reading in terms of its effects on the reading and language ability of second graders with German as a first or second language. The participant group consisted of 105…
Descriptors: German, Native Language, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Vaish, Viniti; Subhan, Aidil – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
Using translanguaging as a theoretical foundation, this paper analyses findings from a Grade 2 reading class for low achieving students, where Malay was used as a scaffold to teach English. Data come from one class in one school in Singapore and its Learning Support Programme (LSP), which is part of a larger research project on biliteracy. The LSP…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Indonesian, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language)
Seifert, Susanne; Schwab, Susanne; Gasteiger-Klicpera, Barbara – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2016
This article aims to evaluate the whole-class reading program Language And Reading Skills (LARS) and its effects on the decoding, reading comprehension, and language abilities of 1st-language (L1) and 2nd-language (L2) German 2nd graders. The program consisted of teacher training and differentiated reading materials adapted to the needs of both L1…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Second Language Learning, German, Reading Comprehension
Center for Research and Reform in Education, 2012
This review synthesizes research on English reading outcomes of all types of programs for Spanish-dominant ELLs in elementary school. It is divided into two major sections: the effect of language of instruction on achievement (i.e., bilingual vs. English-only instruction) and effective reading approaches for ELLs other than the use of native…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
