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Wintre Foxworth Johnson; Saba Khan Vlach; Maria Leija – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
The current climate of K-12 education in the United States has seen a narrowing of literacy instructional practices, exponential amounts of book bans, and contrived hysteria about liberal indoctrination and Critical Race Theory (CRT). Yet, as the world becomes increasingly connected across difference, and as research increasingly demonstrates that…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Culturally Relevant Education, Emergent Literacy, Teaching Methods
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Barnes, Erica M.; Oliveira, Alandeom W. – Reading Teacher, 2018
Elementary students are expected to use various features of informational texts to build knowledge in the content areas. In science informational texts, scientific metaphors are commonly used to make sense of complex and invisible processes. Although elementary students may be familiar with literary metaphors as used in narratives, they may be…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Figurative Language, Elementary School Science
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Teng, Feng – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
This study compared the effects of the reading-while-listening condition and the reading-only condition on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' acquisition of the four dimensions of vocabulary knowledge: form recognition, grammar recognition, meaning recall, and collocation recognition. Accordingly, 24 words within four frequency groups…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Foreign Countries
Alanazi, Rabyah – ProQuest LLC, 2018
In the study, the researcher investigated the percentage of early childhood teachers who read aloud to their students and to explore the influences early childhood educators face when implementing or not implementing a read aloud strategy in kindergarten classrooms in Saudi Arabia. A convergent mixed mothed was applied to discover perspectives of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Reading Aloud to Others, Teaching Methods
Dandan Yang – ProQuest LLC, 2022
With authentic English input and multimedia features, English storybook apps have the potential to be used as an effective learning tool for parent-child shared reading practice in families in English as a second or foreign language settings. This cost-effective educational technology may be particularly beneficial for those children from low…
Descriptors: Bilingual Instructional Materials, Computer Software, Computer Assisted Instruction, Story Reading
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Jhaneil O. Thompson; Krystal N. Bush; Cheron H. Davis – Grantee Submission, 2022
The purpose of this article is to examine the pilot program, STRIKE (Sustaining Technology-and Reading-Infused Kid-Friendly Education) at Night Literacy Camp, a week-long bedtime read-aloud camp held virtually on Facebook and YouTube Live platforms. The online program aims to increase access to culturally relevant, high-quality literature, include…
Descriptors: Literacy, Literacy Education, Community Involvement, Pilot Projects
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Lin, Tzu-Jung; Ha, Seung Yon; Li, Wei-Ting; Chiu, Ying-Ju; Hong, Yu-Ru; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
This study examined the influence of small-group discussions on early adolescents' social reasoning development. A total of 147 fifth-grade students (79 males and 68 females) from six classrooms in a public school in Taiwan participated in a pre-post control quasi-experimental study. Classrooms of students were assigned to either a 5-week…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Group Discussion, Cooperative Learning, Early Adolescents
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Piper, Rebekah E.; Garrison, Summer; Morgan, Lauren – Texas Association for Literacy Education Yearbook, 2017
This chapter focused on the notion of implementing Civil Rights-themed literature with elementary-aged students through interactive read alouds. With traditional pre-packaged scripted curriculum programs, teachers are challenged with implementing additional literature and utilizing resources to promote an expansive variety of learning experiences.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Change Agents, Civil Rights, Childrens Literature
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Kaefer, Tanya; Pinkham, Ashley M.; Neuman, Susan B. – Infant and Child Development, 2017
Research (Evans & Saint-Aubin, 2005) suggests systematic patterns in how young children visually attend to storybooks. However, these studies have not addressed whether visual attention is predictive of children's storybook comprehension. In the current study, we used eye-tracking methodology to examine two-year-olds' visual attention while…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Story Reading, Eye Movements, Young Children
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Reed, Jolene; Lee, Elizabeth L. – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2020
Children use language structures as a basis for learning how to read. Therefore, literacy learning for young children must incorporate the child's personal use of oral language. It is their personal oral language that supports them as they attempt new concepts and become better readers. Because of the important role that oral language plays in a…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Literacy, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Kelly, Laura Beth – Reading Horizons, 2020
Current standards push for elementary students to have text-based and text-centric discussions of what they read. This study explored what bilingual third-grade students talked about during small-group text-based discussions of informational texts. The author conducted a qualitative analysis of 10 video-recorded discussions, five of books matched…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Bilingual Students, Group Discussion, Grade 3
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Wee, Su-Jeong; Lee, Youngmi – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2020
In spite of increasing international concern and the long-term effects of bullying on children's development, bullying in early childhood has been overlooked and underestimated, with both children and adults having difficulties in recognizing and understanding it. This study explores how young children respond to bully-themed stories, what and how…
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Writing Exercises, Bullying, Early Childhood Education
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Canfield, Caitlin F.; Miller, Elizabeth B.; Shaw, Daniel S.; Morris, Pamela; Alonso, Angelica; Mendelsohn, Alan L. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
This study examined the interrelated and longitudinal impacts of parent-child shared book reading, parenting stress, and early relational health, as measured by both parental warmth and parent sensitivity, from infancy to toddlerhood. To extend findings from previous studies of collateral effects that have been conducted in parenting…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Stress Variables, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship
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Wirth, Astrid; Ehmig, Simone C.; Drescher, Nadja; Guffler, Sabrina; Niklas, Frank – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research findings: Developing adequate socioemotional competencies is of great relevance for later health and academic outcomes. Shared book reading creates valuable social situations that provide opportunities to talk about characters' emotions and social interactions with children and thus might contribute to children's socioemotional…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Emergent Literacy, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Hill, Thomas M.; Bartow Jacobs, Katrina – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2020
Recent study on gender representation in children's literature has focused on the representations themselves, while there is less research regarding how children talk about these depictions in texts. Our work, a qualitative study of how kindergarten-aged children discuss gender during picture book read-alouds, examined how children drew on the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Picture Books, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten
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