Many children in primary grades show difficulties with reading fluency, hardly reading text or doing it effortfully and … results of a reading intervention program for 182 second grade struggling readers from public schools. Students received a … progressed significantly faster than a classmate control group in all reading outcomes (speed, accuracy, and expressiveness). By …

Purpose This article explores, identifies and conceptualises everyday audiobook reading practices amongst young adults … new knowledge on audiobook reading practices, how audiobooks fit into everyday routine and provides concepts to aid …

Purpose Providing equal opportunities in class as well as at home does not ensure equal promotion of leisure reading … among girls and boys. Gender differences have wider impacts on their reading development. The purpose of this paper is to … find out gender differences in leisure reading habits among children. Design/methodology/approach The search process was …

students' international reading, math and science test z-scores in Grade 4. The causal treatment effects come from multiple …

standardized reading skill tests conducted in 11 low-income and lower-middle-income African countries through the Multiple …, rural-urban disparities, family background, and disability status, on children's reading skills acquisition. Our study … reveals that reading proficiency among children is generally low and exhibits significant variation across the 11 African …

the meaning of words using large corpora requires efficient systems for text analysis, so-called distant reading systems … typical work loads. But this currently is unclear, and there is no benchmark to evaluate distant reading systems. In this …