Research Findings: This study examines the effects of low- and high-cognitive demand discussion on children's story comprehension and identifies contributions of discussion, initial vocabularies, and ...parent reading involvement. A total of 70 English learner preschoolers took baseline vocabulary tests in Portuguese and English, were randomly assigned to experimental or control conditions, and were read pairs of books in small groups. In the experimental condition, 1 book per pair was discussed using low-cognitive demand (literal) talk. The other was discussed using high-cognitive demand (inferential) talk. In the control condition, books were read aloud without discussion. All children took story comprehension tests (new literal and inferential questions) following books' third readings. Findings showed significant effects of discussion on comprehension. Repeated measures analyses indicated significant effects of high-demand discussion on both question types, particularly inferential questions. Regression indicated significant contributions of high-demand discussion beyond English vocabulary and home reading. Practice or Policy: High-demand discussion significantly influences chigldren's inferential thinking skill, contributes benefits over and above expected impacts of initial vocabulary, and may offer benefits over low-demand talk for literal details. Teachers need not wait to engage young language learners in cognitively challenging discussion.
El objetivo de esta investigación fue valorar la utilidad de una secuencia didáctica para mejorar la competencia en lectura literaria en voz alta de maestros de Educación Infantil en formación de la ...Universidad de Cádiz. En un marco de investigación-acción, se realizó un análisis de contenido de los datos generados en dicha implementación: listado de obras seleccionadas para la lectura, grabaciones en vídeo de las lecturas en voz alta, rúbricas para la coevaluación, foros de e-autoevaluación registrados en la plataforma del curso y un grupo focal de discusión. Los resultados mostraron que la implementación de la secuencia fue efectiva para permitir que el alumnado avanzara en su competencia lectora en voz alta. Además, posibilitó la compilación de un corpus de obras idóneas para la lectura en voz alta. Sin embargo, se detectaron carencias en relación con la selección de las obras y dificultades en la realización de la lectura para lograr la comprensión por parte del público. Se constata también la necesidad de integrar la formación lingüística y literaria en los programas de formación de maestros y el interés de utilizar la evaluación formativa para fomentar un aprendizaje reflexivo.
Studies on the relationship between bookreading and language development typically lack data about which books are actually read to children. This paper reports on an Internet survey designed to ...address this data gap. The resulting dataset (the Infant Bookreading Database or IBDb) includes responses from 1,107 caregivers of children aged 0–36 months who answered questions about the English-language books they most commonly read to their children. The inclusion of demographic information enables analysis of subsets of data based on age, sex, or caregivers’ education level. A comparison between our dataset and those used in previous analyses reveals that there is relatively little overlap between booklists gathered from proxies such as bestseller lists and the books caregivers reported reading to children in our survey. The IBDb is available for download for use by researchers at <http://linguistics.ubc.ca/ubc-ibdb/>.
A Pew Research Center analysis of 2018 Census Bureau data finds that post-Millennials (ages 6 to 21) are the most racially and ethnically diverse generation of Americans, and they are entering ...college at a higher rate than generations of the past. Their parents are more likely to have college degrees and have a higher median income than the parents of Millennials.
Biography Breaks in the Music Classroom May, Brittany Nixon; Miner, Amy Baird; Young, Terrell A.
General music today,
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Children’s picture book biographies on composers and musicians can prompt powerful music learning experiences. Biography breaks are the reading aloud of a picture book biography and the questions or ...activities the teacher engages students in while and after reading the book. In the music classroom, biography breaks can be used with children of all ages to introduce students to composers, musicians, music elements and concepts, music vocabulary, music genres and styles. Biography breaks provide a groundwork for discussing the historical, social, and cultural context of music, as well as a catalyst for engaging students in meaningful music experiences creating, performing, responding to, and connecting with music.
Theories of reading aloud are silent about the role of subphonemic/subsegmental representations in translating print to sound. However, there is empirical evidence suggesting that feature ...representations are activated in speech production and visual word recognition. In the present study, we sought to determine whether masked primes activate feature representations in reading aloud using a variation of the masked onset priming effect (MOPE). We found that target nonwords (e.g., BAF) were read aloud faster when preceded by masked nonword primes that shared their initial phoneme with the target (e.g., bez), or primes whose initial phoneme shared all features except voicing with the first phoneme of the target (e.g., piz), compared with unrelated primes (e.g., suz). We obtained the same result in 2 experiments that used different participants and prime durations (around 60 ms in Experiment 1 and 50 ms in Experiment 2). The significant masked feature priming effect that was observed in both experiments converges with the empirical evidence in the speech production and visual word recognition domains indicating a functional role for features in reading aloud. Our findings motivate the further development of current theories of reading aloud and have important implications for extant theories of speech production.
This article reports research results from an analyzsis of frequency and content of read aloud articles published between 2011 and 2015 in selected, national, peer-reviewed journals across the K-8 ...curriculum. An introduction describes the problem, purpose, and limitations of the study. It provides a review of research on reading aloud at home, in school, across the curriculum, and across grade bands. It also identifies research questions, discusses frequency and content analysis as research methodologies, and describes data sources, data collection methods, and data analysis procedures, followed by a presentation of results.
Improving reading rate can be difficult for poor readers. In this experiment, we investigated the impact of improvement in reading rate on other aspects of reading, including word recognition, ...decoding, vocabulary, and comprehension. Poor readers in Grades 2 or 4 (
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= 123) were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 conditions: practice reading text at their independent reading level (92%-100% word reading accuracy), practice reading text at a difficult reading level (80%-90% accuracy), or an untreated control. Students in practice conditions read aloud to an adult listener who assisted with difficult words. Before, midway, and following 20 weeks of treatment, we assessed improvement in reading rate, word recognition, decoding, vocabulary, and comprehension across conditions and determined the impact of improved rate on comprehension. We found significant differences favoring the treatment groups in rate, word recognition, and comprehension, but not in decoding or vocabulary. We found no significant differences in growth between levels of text difficulty.
This column reflects on finding movement in read alouds about sports and the ways literacy educators might apply an on-the-move perspective using texts.
Krutka reflects and shares her journey to reevaluate her work as a school librarian, through personal professional development, and the action plans created. Krutka offers examples of monthly library ...themes, updating the collection, reconsidering library signage, and professional development.
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