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McGee, Lea M.; Kim, Hwewon; Nelson, Kathryn S.; Fried, Mary D. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2015
In this study, we describe young students' actions at point of difficulty in reading and examine changes in their strategic use of sources of information. We examined errors from running records of first graders who entered Reading Recovery (RR) in the fall and ended the year reading at the first-grade level compared with RR first graders who did…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Difficulty Level, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
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Robinson, Elizabeth J.; Einav, Shiri; Fox, Amy – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Literacy gives children an opportunity to benefit from others' knowledge and experience that far exceeds what they can achieve when reliant on learning orally via personal encounters. Little is known about young children's understanding and use of print as a source of knowledge. Three experiments investigated children's use and understanding of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Early Reading, Epistemology
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Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
In present-day knowledge societies, readers cannot understand complex issues without constructing meaning across multiple information sources. To what extent they are able to do so may depend on both characteristics of reading tasks and characteristics of readers themselves. In this study, 184 undergraduates read multiple texts about the complex…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Climate, Epistemology, Undergraduate Students