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The Satisfaction of Basic Psychological Needs and Children's Reading Growth in Culturally Relevant Summer Reading Contexts
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Cheyeon Ha; Alysia D. Roehrig – Educational Studies, 2025
This study explores students' perspectives on the satisfaction of basic psychological needs in the classroom and the potential effects on their learning growth in a summer reading program. The summer reading program was free for students in grades 1-8 and was designed to prevent reading-level losses during the summer for students from lower-income…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Summer Programs, Reading Improvement
Promoting Children's Reading Motivation with Culturally Relevant Reading Education
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Ha, Cheyeon; Durtschi, Shawna; Roehrig, Alysia; Turner, Jeannine; Craig, Makana; Mesa, Michael P.; Funari, Chelsea – Grantee Submission, 2021
This study explored how a culturally relevant summer reading program may empower young Black students through social action and opportunities for reading engagement, thus supporting their reading motivation. The North Florida Freedom Schools (NFFS) was designed to realize social justice by providing free educational opportunities, especially for…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Culturally Relevant Education, Reading Instruction, Summer Programs
Teacher Efficacy as It Relates to Response to Intervention When Implemented during a Summer Reading Program
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Nelms, Gary C. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study set out to determine whether there was a relationship between teacher efficacy and a standard treatment protocol. Teachers participated in a pre and post survey to measure their confidence level in Leveled Literacy Intervention, the literacy program and their literacy knowledge, before and after implementation over a summer reading…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Camps
Latino Parent Involvement and Associations with Home Literacy and Oral Reading Fluency
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Zambrana, Katherine A.; Hart, Katie C.; Maharaj, Andre; Cheatham-Johnson, Randi J.; Waguespack, Angela – School Psychology, 2019
Objective: Grounded in Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler's theoretical model of parents' motivations for involvement in their children's education, the aim of this study was to examine the associations between Latino parents' perceptions of involvement and the home literacy environment, as well as children's oral reading fluency (ORF). We further…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Parent Participation, Family Literacy, Oral Reading
Are Self-Perception Measures Used in School Library Research Transferable to the Context of Public Library Summer Reading Programs?
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Arnone, Marilyn P.; Small, Ruth V.; Weng, Shicheng – School Library Research, 2016
Several instruments previously validated for use in school library research were tested for their appropriateness in the context of public libraries' summer reading programs for youth. The researchers were also interested in whether the connection between perceived competence in one's own information skills and perceived competence in one's own…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Programs, School Libraries, Public Libraries
Summer Reading to Overcome the Summer Effect
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Gwilliam, Marilyn; Limbrick, Libby – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2016
The school in which this research project took place, Papatoetoe Central, was concerned about research evidence that indicated students' reading achievement dropped after long summer breaks. This drop in achievement, known as "the summer effect", has been reported in schools in New Zealand and internationally (Alexander, Entwisle, &…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Vacations, Reading Achievement