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Naughton, Rosemary. "Multiple readings in multiple choice reading tests: A study of year 11 students' reading practices of a multiple choice reading test." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1996. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/965.
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This study examines students’ responses to the questions in a multiple choice reading test. An analysis of the processes students used to negotiate meaning revealed the roles played by cognitive strategies and cultural framing in shaping students' responses to multiple choice questions. A descriptive/analytical study methodology was conducted with a group of forty eight Year II students in the final term of the school year. These students represented four mixed sex ability groupings and a range of socio-economic backgrounds. Think-Out-Loud protocols were used in an interview situation. Students responded to thirty four questions from three passages selected from multiple choice reading tests used in statewide examinations for Western Australian Tertiary Entrance in subject English. Students' responses were transcribed and then analysed. In addition, the passages, questions and answers from the test were analysed to determine the different reading positions wade available through the questions and possible answers. The data were triangulated with results from statewide examination results, observations and debriefing sessions with member checkers. Results indicated that the methods and strategies used by students in their attempts to negotiate the correct answer helped them only when students aligned their readings with the readings privileged by the item writers.
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Armstrong, Nancy Jane. "Reading girls reading pleasure : reading, adolescence and femininity." Thesis, Curtin University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/661.
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This thesis is concerned with the reading girl and the potential pleasures and transgressions she experiences through popular fiction. Throughout modernity, the western bourgeois girl has been directed towards texts that both validate proper, and caution against improper, forms of femininity. This practice continues within the institutions of family and education as well as through the public library system and commercial booksellers. Although the contemporary girl is subjected to feminism, culture continues to insist on her domestic role. The notion of identification is central to societal fears about the material that finds its way into the hands of reading girls. Because the reading girl can align herself imaginatively with characters, commentators worry that she might absorb passivity from passive characters, wanton habits from wanton characters, or murderous habits from murderous characters. Reading theory tends to reinforce these fears through a particularly disparaging assessment of popular fictions. The girl‘s identifications with characters in popular fiction continue to worry her familial, educational, psychological and moral guardians.Using a methodology based on the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan, I consider the girl reader as a subject split between her unconscious and the identity she cobbles together through identifications with embodied and representational others. Because of this foundational split, she can never fully articulate reading pleasures and their effects can never be calculated with consequence. Reading participates in the girl‘s struggle to achieve the precarious feminine position, and provides her with pleasures along the way. To demonstrate some of the pleasures available to the girl, I undertake readings of texts associated with adolescence and femininity. I examine young adult fiction that is directed at the adolescent reader to expose the pleasures that lie beneath the injunction to adopt a heteronormative adult identity. From books addressing the girl, I move to melodramatic and sensational adult fictions located in the domestic. In these fictions, the girl is stifled and distorted because she is captive to her family and cannot escape to establish the direction of her desire and seek the recognition of the social Other. Finally, I look at texts marked by violence. Taking one fictional text from the horror genre, and one non-fictional true crime text, I explore the unspeakable pleasures of reading about blood and death.In these readings, I investigate both conservative and transgressive pleasures. These pleasures co-exist in all of the fictions explored in this thesis. All reading tends towards the cautionary, and the book cannot corrupt the normally constituted reading girl. Through identifying with characters, she can build up a repertoire of feminine masks and develop an awareness of the precarious position of womanliness. In the end, I argue, the adolescent reading girl cannot be determined or totalised despite the best efforts of the book and its commentators.
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Hann, Fergus Michael. "The Effect of Choice on Reading Anxiety, Reading Autonomy, Reading Interest, Reading Self-Efficacy, and Reading Performance." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/502213.
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Over the last decade, the idea of providing students with choices in their learning experience has attracted academic interest (Flowerday & Shraw, 2000; Katz & Assor, 2007; Patall, Cooper, & Robinson, 2008). Although some previous research has suggested that choice is beneficial to language learning, other research has indicated that choice has negligible (Iyengar & DeVoe, 2003) or even damaging effects (D’Ailly, 2004; Stefanou, Perencevich, DiCintio, & Turner, 2004) on language acquisition. Considerable differences in the focuses of previous research can explain the conflicting results of these choice studies (Iyengar & DeVoe, 2003; Schwartz, 2004); however, researchers agree that choice is closely associated with motivation (Stefanou et al., 2004). For instance, various motivational models, such as self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2000), include the concepts of choice, autonomy, and control as key elements of intrinsic motivation and performance. This study had three main purposes, the first of which was to quantitatively examine the relationships among Reading Anxiety, Autonomy, Interest, Reading Self- Efficacy, and Reading Proficiency in Japanese EFL students in a first-year pre-intermediate reading course. The second purpose was to quantitatively examine the effect of having No Choice, Option Choice, and Active Choice (Reeve, Nix, & Hamm, 2003) on Reading Anxiety, Reading Autonomy, Reading Interest, Reading Self-Efficacy, and reading performance over one academic year in a foreign language reading curriculum. The final purpose was to qualitatively corroborate and support the quantitative findings through a series of structured interviews based on students’ beliefs and attitudes toward the provision of choice in the reading curriculum. A quantitative quasi-experimental design supported by a qualitative phenomenological component was used during the year-long longitudinal study with 201 first-year Japanese EFL students at a private university in Japan. Nine intact classes were randomly assigned into three groups: No Choice (n = 66), Option Choice (n = 67), and Active Choice (n = 68), as defined by Reeve et al. (2003). Affective Variable Questionnaires were administered to measure the levels of Reading Anxiety, Reading Autonomy, Reading Interest, and Reading Self-Efficacy before, during, and after a 32-week treatment. The results of reading performance measures, including Vocabulary Definition and Vocabulary in Context quizzes, Intensive Reading tests, Extensive Reading quizzes, Timed Reading assignments, Composite TOEFL, and TOEFL Reading component scores were tracked over the academic year. The results showed low to medium Pearson correlations ranging between r = - .39 to r = .29 among Reading Anxiety, Reading Autonomy, Reading Interest, and Reading Self-Efficacy. In addition, a stable, significant relationship was found between Reading Self-Efficacy and Reading Proficiency, as measured by students’ TOEFL scores and TOEFL Reading Component scores at the start and end of the academic semester. Initially, no such relationship was found between Reading Anxiety, Reading Autonomy, Reading Interest, and Reading Proficiency. However, by the end of the academic year, significant correlations were found among the Reading Autonomy, Reading Interest, Composite TOEFL, and TOEFL Reading component scores. The results indicated significant changes in the affective variables within each group over the academic year. Over the year, significant decreases in Reading Anxiety, and significant increases in Reading Self-Efficacy in each of the three groups were particularly salient. In addition, there were significant changes in many of the Reading Performance measures for each of the groups; however, only the Active Choice group had significant changes in all seven Reading Performance measures over the year. In terms of the effect of choice on the affective variables, students in both the Active Choice and the Option Choice groups had significantly higher Autonomy gains than students in the No Choice group over the academic year. Thus, giving students any type of choice in their reading curriculum exerted a positive effect on Reading Autonomy. With regards to the effect of choice on reading performance, mixed results were found in the reading components among the three groups. First, in the Intensive Reading and Timed Reading components, students in the Active Choice group performed significantly better than students in the Option Choice and No Choice groups. This finding indicated that when choice is given to students, it is necessary that the locus of control be with the student. With respect to Vocabulary Definitions and Vocabulary in Context components, both the Active Choice and Option Choice groups had significantly higher scores than the No Choice group. In other words, any choice was considered better than no choice. The type of choice had no effect on the Vocabulary components. In Extensive Reading, the Active Choice group significantly outperformed the No Choice group in the Extensive Reading quizzes; however, the Option Choice group was not significantly different from the other two groups. The results indicated that only autonomous choice led to greater self-determination, and increases in performance. Finally, no differences were found among the three groups in the Composite TOEFL scores and the TOEFL Reading component scores. The quantitative findings were corroborated by interviews with 18 students with a wide range of motivation and reading performance, as measured by the Affective Variables Questionnaire and the reading performance measures. The students were interviewed about the treatment process and their feelings about having choice in the reading curriculum. Common themes derived from the interview data indicated that choice affected students’ sense of Reading Autonomy. A common pattern emerged from the data indicating that students in the Active Choice group with lower levels of affect and reading performance were less comfortable making choices than students with higher levels of affect and reading performance abilities. Additionally, students in the No Choice group with higher levels of affect and reading performance were frustrated by the lack of choice in the reading course. The study contributed four unique points to the field of choice in language learning. First, choice was found to increase students’ sense of Reading Autonomy, a key component in intrinsic motivation and successful learning (Littlewood, 1999). Next, having any type of choice was found to be beneficial in Vocabulary acquisition. Moreover, only autonomous choice was found to be advantageous in the more complex tasks of Intensive Reading, Extensive Reading, and Timed Reading. Finally, the benefits of choice did not extend to performance on the Composite TOEFL and TOEFL Reading components. The testing environment and the lack of choice available in standardized testing were demotivating and contributed to a decrease in reading performance. The mixed results of this study indicate that choice is a complex phenomenon. The field of choice in education and language learning offers a wealth of teaching and research possibilities for future study.
Temple University--Theses
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Eckhoff, Teri L. "The effect on developmental college students’ independent reading rates after implementing an intervention of guided readings using the reading plus computerized reading program." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/3952.
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This study investigated the best approach to increase a student’s reading rate while using the computerized reading program Reading Plus. The participants were community college students enrolled in developmental reading classes. The experimental students completed guided reading lessons using a guided reading format versus the control students, who completed guided reading lessons using both independent and guided reading formats. Pre- and post-testing assessed reading levels, oral reading rates, and silent reading rates of both groups. While pre- vs. post-test scores showed increases in reading rates on three different assessment measures for both groups, these increases were not statistically significant.Thesis (M.Ed.)--Wichita State University, College of Education, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction.
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Baier, Rebecca J. "Reading comprehension and reading strategies." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2005. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2005/2005baierr.pdf.
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Middleton, Margaret E. "Reading Motivation and Reading Comprehension." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313166336.
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Robinson, Teresa Lynn Davis. "Reading aloud: Shaping reading attitudes." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/715.
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Miller, Mirtha Elena 1957. "Reading Workshop: Effects on reading comprehension and attitudes toward reading." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291756.
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The primary question addressed in this study was whether or not fourth graders who participated in Reading Workshop would show a greater improvement in reading comprehension and attitudes toward reading than fourth graders who did not participate in Reading Workshop, but received only basal-guided reading instruction. Two reading classes participated in the Reading Workshops and were used as experimental groups. One of the experimental groups was comprised of average ability readers, and the other of low ability readers. The control group contained both average and low ability readers in the same grouping. A significant difference between the experimental and the control group was found for attitudes toward reading and some aspects of reading comprehension in the average ability readers. The Reading Workshop group demonstrated significant positive effects in these areas. However, no significant differences between treatment groups were found when both low and average ability readers' scores were included in the analysis.
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Knebel, Sarah Ann. "The Comparative Effects of Sustained Silent Readings and Repeated readings on Reading Fluency and Comprehension of Students At-Risk for Reading Failure." The Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1396347739.
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Tikka, Piiastiina. "Reading on small displays : reading performance and perceived ease of reading." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2013. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/14788/.
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The present thesis explores and discusses reading continuous text on small screens, namely on mobile devices, and aims at identifying a model capturing those factors that most influence the perceived experience of reading. The thesis also provides input for the user interface and content creation industries, offering them some direction as to what to focus on when producing interfaces intended for reading or text-based content that is likely to be read on a small display. The thesis starts with an overview of the special characteristics of reading on small screens and identifies, through existing literature, issues that may affect fluency and ease of reading on mobile devices. The thesis then presents six experiments and studies on reading performance and perceived experience when reading on small screens. The mixed-methods research presented in the thesis showed that reading performance and subjective perception of reading fluency and ease do not always correspond, and perceived experience can have a strong influence over an end-user’s choice of whether to access text based content on a small display device or not. The research shows that it is important to measure interface quality not only in terms of functionality, but also for the user experience offered – and, ideally, to measure experience through more than one variable. The thesis offers a factor model (mobile reading acceptance model) of those factors that collectively influence subjective experience when reading via small screens. The key factors in the model are visibility of text, overview of contents, navigation within the contents and interaction with the interface/device. Further contributions include methods for cost-efficient user experience testing: a modified critical incident technique and using an optical character recognition to gauge legibility user experience at early design iterations.
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Comorau, Nancy Alla. "Postcolonial refashionings reading forms, reading novels /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9951.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of English. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Abrahams, Shathley Q. "Sedimentations : reading genre, reading across genre." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7815.
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Bibliography: leaves 69-73.This thesis argues for, citing the example of four novels published at or near to the millennium, the establishment of antirely new genre. But implicit in this is an investigstion into what is meant by term 'genre'. Further the nature of these novels makes central the way in which these novels should be grouped over the grouping itself.
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Thompson, Meri Dawn. "Authentic reading assessment: The reading portfolio." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1134.
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Protopsaltis, Aristidis. "Reading in Web-based hypertexts : cognitive processes strategies and reading goals." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2006. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/92701/reading-in-web-based-hypertexts-cognitive-processes-strategies-and-reading-goals.
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Hypertext is a multi-linear electronic, textual and interactive environment to present information. The objective of such an environment is that readers may browse through linked, cross-referenced, annotated texts in a multi-sequential manner, and thus, it is believed, to improve the learning. However, early and current research findings have revealed some mixed results concerning the alleged advantage of hypertext on learning over paper-based documents. Researchers have identified the lack of research about the cognitive processes and the strategies that readers use during reading as one of the main factors for such results. As a result, there is a need and scope for further research in modelling the cognitive processes involved in reading comprehension and the reading strategies in a hypertext environment. This research addresses some of the gaps in the field by proposing a model that represents the sequence of events that take place during reading in a Web-based hypertext environment. Also, emphasis is placed on the strategies that readers use during hypertext reading and on the potential effect of different reading goals on reading comprehension. The evaluation of the model and the other hypotheses is conducted in two experiments using qualitative and quantitative methods. The first experiment employs the think aloud method. Forty two subjects participated. The results demonstrated that the proposed model precisely describes the sequence of events that take place during hypertext reading. They did not reveal any significant difference between different reading goals and understanding. They revealed four reading strategies: serial, serial overview, mixed, and mixed overview, and they identified three factors that influence the selection of hyperlinks: coherence, link location, and personal interest. The second experiment is an independent samples design experiment with ninety subjects. The results confirmed those found in the first experiment. The current study makes a contribution in the field of hypertext reading by proposing and evaluating a procedural model and by making this model graphic. By doing so it addresses some of the voids in the field, expands our understanding of the reading processes and the reading strategies, and provides practical guideliness which are enhanced to promote design supporting effective learning processes.
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Dunser, Maria L. "READING NATURE, READING EVE: READING HUMAN NATURE IN JOHN MILTON'S PARADISE LOST." MSSTATE, 2008. http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-04032008-144046/.
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Renaissance England was a period of tremendous flux; ideas about science, gender and knowledge or how we come to knowledge come under examination. These areas of flux intersect with the text examined here in their relationship to the key concept of nature. In John Miltons, Paradise Lost, nature appears in various forms over sixty times. By first examining the word nature in relation to the ideas in flux during the period and next examining Miltons use of the word in the epic, an overlooked yet significant aspect of his epic emerges. Milton uses the mutability of nature to further justify the ways of God to man. How his use of nature develops an association between nature and Eve is of even greater significance. In a carnivalesque inversion of the convention of the period, Miltons development of nature in the poem and his development of the association of Eve with nature reveal an association of Eve with human nature.
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Burrows, Lance Paul. "THE EFFECTS OF EXTENSIVE READING AND READING STRATEGIES ON READING SELF-EFFICACY." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/199091.
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This study is a quasi-experimental, longitudinal investigation into the role that extensive reading and reading strategies play in the cultivation of reading self-efficacy. Conducted over the course of one academic year, how changes in reading self-efficacy translate into changes in reading comprehension was examined. In addition, the participants' perceptions of the utility of extensive reading and reading strategies, and how those perceptions related to reading self-efficacy were investigated. A final goal was to ascertain how retrospective ratings of reading self-efficacy influence current levels of the construct. The participants (N = 322) were first and second-year, non-English majors at a four-year, co-educational university in Osaka, Japan. The participants were divided into four groups: an intensive reading group (control group), an extensive reading group, a reading strategies group, and an extensive reading/reading strategies group. Data for the study were obtained from six major sources: a reading comprehension test, a reading strategy test, a reading self-efficacy questionnaire, a perceived utility of extensive reading questionnaire, a perceived utility of reading strategies questionnaire, and a sources of reading self-efficacy questionnaire. The questionnaires and tests were administered three times over the course of the academic year. Before conducting the quantitative analyses on the data gathered with the above instruments, the dichotomous test and questionnaire data were analyzed using the Rasch rating-scale model to confirm the validity and reliability of the instruments and to transform the raw scores into equal interval measures. By employing MANOVAs, ANOVAs, Latent Growth Curve Modeling, and Pearson correlation coefficients, the data were then analyzed to ascertain differences between groups and within groups for all tests and constructs measured. The results showed that the participants in the reading strategies and extensive reading/reading strategies groups gained significantly more in reading self-efficacy over the academic year than those in the extensive reading and intensive reading groups. In addition, all three experimental groups outperformed the intensive reading group in reading comprehension. Furthermore, results from the latent growth curve model showed that gains in reading self-efficacy were related positively to gains in reading comprehension. In a similar vein, the results showed that gains in reading strategy skill led to changes in reading self-efficacy, while reading amount was not significantly related to changes in reading self-efficacy. The results also suggested that those who more highly regard extensive reading as useful to improving reading comprehension exhibited higher levels of reading self-efficacy over the course of the study. On the contrary, there was no significant difference in levels of reading self-efficacy between those who highly rated reading strategies as useful and those who did not rate them as highly. Finally, Pearson correlation coefficients showed moderately strong relationships between junior high and high school (retrospective) levels of reading self-efficacy and university (current) levels. These results underscore the importance of self-efficacy in the learning process and how the cultivation of self-efficacy should be a goal of any educator or administrator in an EFL context. The findings also highlight the detrimental effects of teaching methodologies, such as grammar-translation, that deprive learners of the opportunity to develop their own cognitive abilities. With the introduction of reading strategy intervention and/or extensive reading practice, the participants in the experimental groups of this study were able to develop the skills needed to overcome comprehension breakdowns in the reading process, and this help them become more autonomous, empowered readers.
Temple University--Theses
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Dunser, Maria Lynn. "Reading nature, reading Eve reading human nature in John Milton's Paradise Lost /." Master's thesis, Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2008. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-04032008-144046.
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Dillon, Andrew, Cliff McKnight, and John Richardson. "Reading from paper versus reading from screens." Oxford Journals, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105086.
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This paper reviews the literature on reading continuous text from VDUs. The focus is on the reported nature, and potential causes, of reading differences between paper and screens. The first section outlines the scope of the present review. Section 2 discusses the nature of the reported differences between reading from either presentation medium. Five broad differences have been identified suggesting that reading from VDUs is slower, less accurate, more fatiguing, decreases comprehension and is rated inferior by readers. Evidence for the existence of each of these differences is reviewed and conclusions are drawn. In Section 3, ten variables which have been proposed as potential causes of reading differences between paper and screen are reviewed. These include screen dynamics, display polarity, orientation, viewing angle and user characteristics. Recent evidence by Gould et al.11 is presented which suggests that the image quality of the screen display is the crucial factor and indicate that positive presentation, high resolution and anti-aliasing interactively affect performance by enhancing the quality of the displayed image. The implications of this work for screen presentation of text are presented.
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Villagomez, Delia. "Mini shared reading: A mediational reading strategy." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1761.
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This project presents a reading strategy in which students who are learning to read are introduced to the reading process in a comprehensible manner regardless if it is in the student's primary language.
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Mundy, Charlotte Anne. "Reading First Reading coaches' interpretations and enactments of their role as reading coach." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0024886.
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Adams, Wandaleen. "Comparative Study of Reading First Schools Reading Achievement to Non-Reading First Schools." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1303.
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The purpose of this study was to determine if there was any significant increase in the reading achievement of Reading First third grade students compared to the reading achievement of the third grade reading students in Non-Reading First schools located in southwest Virginia for 2004-2009. The Standards of Learning (SOLs) reading test scores were compiled from the Virginia Standards of Learning test scores that are available to the public from the Virginia Department of Education website. The elementary schools chosen for this study have a similar number of disadvantaged students and similar demographics. The reading achievement was being examined after 6 years of implementation of teaching strategies using Reading First in 3 of the elementary schools and compared to Non-Reading First schools.
Using a quantitative design, the comparative study included data obtained from the 2004-2009 Virginia Standards of Learning standardized assessment test scores for third grade students in 6 elementary schools. The data comparison examined the reading achievement relationship between the Reading First schools (experimental) and the Non-Reading First schools (control group). The analysis was based on 2 research questions and 12 hypotheses; 6 hypotheses for each question. A t-test for independent samples was used to identify the differences between the means of Reading First schools and the Non-Reading First schools. A chi square analysis was used to identify the differences between the means of Reading First schools compared to the means of Non-Reading First schools in the areas of not proficient, proficient, and advanced proficient.
The results of the study indicated that there were significant increases for reading achievement for the Reading First schools in the experimental group compared to the Non-Reading First in the control group. The Reading First schools performed better or as well as their peers in Non-Reading First schools at the advanced reading proficiency level.
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Wang, Min-Tzu. "Effects of metacognitive reading strategy instruction on EFL high school students' reading comprehension, reading strategies awareness, and reading motivation." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0041084.
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Bloomquist, Christy L. "An Examination of the Relationship of Oral Reading Fluency, Silent Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, and the Colorado State Reading Assessment." DigitalCommons@USU, 2017. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/5667.
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This study evaluated how measures of oral reading fluency (ORF) and silent reading fluency (SRF) compare as predictors of reading comprehension and how these predictors vary as a function of proficiency level for fourth- and fifth-grade students. Additionally, the study sought to examine the relationship between measures of oral reading fluency, silent reading fluency, reading comprehension, and the Transitional Colorado Assessment Program (TCAP) with these students. Participants were 175 fourth- and fifth-grade students from two randomly selected schools in Colorado. A correlational predictive design was used. Results indicated that measures of ORF and SRF were predictors of reading comprehension and that the relationship of measures of ORF and SRF with comprehension changes over time. Regression analysis results indicated that 45.0% of the variance in reading comprehension was accounted for by the ORF measure for the sample population, as compared to 53.0% of the variance accounted for by SRF measures. Thus, measures of SRF might be a better predictor for maturing readers to determine reading proficiency, monitor student progress, and guide instructional practices.
A structural equation model (SEM) analyzed the relationship of the measure of SRF with reading comprehension as moderated by proficiency level. Analysis for the SRF measure by reading proficiency was conducted at the whole group level. The model accounted for 59.0% of the moderation. Results indicated that reading proficiency level and the SRF measure were both associated with reading comprehension. Reading proficiency level is a significant moderator of the relationship between measures of reading comprehension and SRF.
A SEM mediation model was used to analyze the relationship of measures of ORF, SRF, reading comprehension, and TCAP. The direct effects of the ORF and SRF measures on TCAP were both predictive with 66.0% of the variance accounted for with SRF measure and 66.5% of the variance accounted for with ORF measure.
Results indicated that as grade level increases, the relationship between measures of ORF, SRF, and reading comprehension changes. Additionally, SRF measures can be a viable alternative to ORF measures for upper elementary students as a predictor of reading comprehension and on the TCAP high-stake assessment.
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Cartrette, Cassandra Hilburn. "Reading first and scientifically based reading research programs : answers to North Carolina's reading problems /." Electronic version (PDF), 2006. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2006/cartrettec/cassandracartrette.pdf.
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Takakjian, Cara Elizabeth. "The Italian Graphic Novel: Reading Ourselves, Reading History." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11002.
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This study seeks to unravel the intricate connection between a selection of graphic novels, the moments in which they were created, and the process of weaving an Italian cultural history. It analyzes graphic novels and comics from three periods in Italian contemporary history – 1968, 1977 and 2001 – and asks how the hybrid image-text language of graphic novels might provide a unique insight into the relationship between the individual and history in contemporary Italy. More specifically, it looks at how the comic medium not only reflects or represents historical events, but effectively re-writes and re-traces them, allowing us to re-think History. Ultimately, this work reveals how the graphic novel medium has been used as an instrument in the process of weaving an Italian cultural history since 1968. Comics not only reflect the time in which they are created, either explicitly or implicitly, but also work as cultural agents in the formation and re-telling of history. Whether they attempt to speak to and for a generation seeking change and a new reality of freedom, are a means of aggressive socio- political criticism in a moment of apathy and disillusion, or a space to reflect on and work through personal and historical trauma, graphic novels are shaped by, and help to shape, our vision of ourselves and our society.Romance Languages and Literatures
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Alshairawi, Isra. "Digital Reading versus Print Reading in The Classroom." Thesis, Malmö universitet. Ämneslärare åk 7-9. Första ämne: Engelska, Andra ämne: svenska som andraspråk, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-41961.
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Frank, Ina, and Emma Åsälv. "Lässtrategier för läsförståelse : Reading strategies for reading comprehension." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-39766.
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Den systematiska översikten presenterar vetenskaplig grundad kunskap om hur lässtrategier kan bidra till utvecklad läsförståelse för elever i F-3. Det är en sammanställning av vetenskapliga artiklar och studier inom utbildningsvetenskap. I början av kunskapsöversikten presenteras hur den systematiska sökningen strukturerats och hur urvalet gått till. Detta styrks genom två bifogade tabeller som visar vilka sökningar som gjorts och vilka artiklar som använts. I denna del överläggs även sökmetoderna transparant genom en metoddiskussion som kritiskt diskuterar sökmetoderna och valda källor. Resultatet som presenteras i kunskapsöversikten behandlar hur den sammanställda forskningen beskriver vad lässtrategier är och hur lässtrategier lägger grunden för läsares läsförståelse. Relationen mellan lässtrategier och läsförståelse beskrivs genom RAND-modellen som på ett tydligt sätt visar på den starka kopplingen som finns. Metakognitiva förmågor kopplat till självreglerat lärande sätts i kombination med det traditionella programmet Reciprocal Teaching som handlar om textsamtal och undervisning i grupp. Resultatet visar att kombinationen av både individuella och gemensamma förmågor ökar användningen av lässtrategier och således även läsförståelsen. I diskussion och slutsats framförhålls vikten av att yrkessamma lärare förstår kopplingen mellan lässtrategier och läsförståelsen, men också att det innebär utmaningar i dagens klassrum där elevgrupperna är stora till antal och sällan homogena i sin kunskapsutveckling.
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Bartlett, Brian Michael. "Computerized reading assessment using the star reading software." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2527.
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This thesis focused on the use of a computerized reading assessment program called Star Reading. Reading has been one of the most difficult areas across the curriculum to assess. Reading asssessment differs widely from teacher to teacher, and has traditionally been very subjective.
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Evans, David Cenydd Lloyd. "Reading neuroscience : ventriloquism as a metaphor for multiple readings of self." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1729.
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This thesis argues that the consensus models of self forwarded and upheld in the fields of discourse most concerned with its description, indicate a process of ventriloquism where agency slips between dual poles of body and mind and cannot be tracked to a hiding place. Just as with ventriloquism, in these models of self it is unclear who is doing the 'talking', and the skill of performance would seem to make the distinction almost redundant. The self seems a complicity of often conflicting agents when analysed as its constituent parts, and not there at all when viewed as a whole. This thesis takes as its starting point the confusion of Edgar Bergen when struggling to justify his philosophical conversations with his dummy: who is at work here, and where would agency reside in such a dialogue? That it serves us to assume the 'theory of mind' explanation for the behaviours of others, and by extension place ourselves within a scaffold of causal motives, says more for the use value of such a theory than for the presence of 'mind'. Why this 'theory of mind' rather than any other? Because that is how mind and motive are presented to us during our acquisition of a spoken language. Mediation, transformation and referral: this thesis argues that these are qualities which characterize ventriloquism, and also the human means of perception and self-perception. There are a number of unfulfilled potentialities that reach their heaven in the unified self. The 'drive' to unity culls these lost futures and condemns us to another fulfilment, that of'oneness'. Most of these resolutions regarding self are predicated on what is 'in' and what is 'out'; how does the discriminatory self establish grounds for inclusivity or exclusivity? This thesis means to provide a lexicon of other possibilities regarding the conceptualization of self.
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Ng, Yin-ting Irene, and 吳燕婷. "Reading 'heterology'." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31953669.
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Goodman, Lesley Anne. "Indignant Reading." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10980.
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In 1871, R. H. Hutton criticized George Eliot for "unfairly running down one of her own characters": Middlemarch's Rosamond Vincy. Hutton blamed Eliot for being cruel to her own creation and used his role as a reader and a critic to lodge a public complaint on Rosamond's behalf. Indignant Reading identifies this response--dissatisfaction and even anger with an author for his/her perceived mistreatment of a fictional character--as a common occasion for literary criticism in the nineteenth century. The indignant readings found in Victorian reviews, letters, and prefaces advance conceptions of plot, characterization, and fictionality distinct from those offered in modern narratological criticism or historicist accounts of Victorian novel practice or literary criticism. Rather than abstracting the aesthetic and ethical concerns from the emotional terms common to Victorian criticism, I see these concerns emerging in conjunction with serious emotional demands and significant, if sometimes inchoate, beliefs about the "rights" of fictional characters. In my discussion of indignation resulting from crimes of plot, I argue that insufficiently
motivated events were interpreted by Victorian critics and readers as arising from the author rather than from the text. Discussions of crimes of characterization reveal an implicit tri-partite model of fictional character, in which authors might be incorrect about their own characters as well as cruel toward them. This manner of thinking about authorial accuracy and justice implies, I argue, a conception of fictionality that de-emphasizes the distinction between fiction and non-fiction, modeling the author’s relationship to his fiction on that of the historian to his text. This approach to fiction changes, however, in the twentieth century, alongside restrictive attitudes about the role of affect in performing literary criticism. While indignant reading re-enters the academy as one type of feminist criticism, which emphasizes the ethical at the expense of the affective, indignation in its most emotional form has become a primary mode of expression for fan communities.
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Jacob, Benjamin. "Reading obscenity." Thesis, University of York, 2003. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14059/.
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Diez, Alejandro. "Reading Fuenzalida." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/80349.
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El artículo proporciona un breve recuento de la trayectoria antropológica de Fernando Fuenzalida a partir de sus principales obras. El trabajo antropológico del autor Fuenzalida puede ser rastreado a lo largo de una serie de etapas que marcan una serie de transformaciones tanto en la sociedad como en el sujeto del análisis, la interpretación y el enfoque desarrollados por el autor. A lo largo de cuatro décadas pasa de un enfoque etnográfico centrado en temas «culturales» a enfoques que privilegian la política y la transformación social, para retornar en los últimos años a temas globales y culturales.This article offers a brief account of Fernando Fuenzalida’s intelectual trajectory. His anthropological research can be tracked along several stages that show a series of transformations in society, as well as in the subject of analysis, and interpretation, and in his approach to the subject-matter. Throughout four decades he switches from an ethnographic approach centered on culture to approaches that give more importance to political and social transformation. In recent years he returns to global and cultural topics.
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Keith, Karin, Renee Rice Moran, Huili Hong, and LaShay Jennings. "Reading UPSTREAM." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1007.
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Ng, Yin-ting Irene. "Reading 'heterology'." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262087.
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Jennings, LaShay. "Close Reading." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3450.
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Ojwaya, Jael A. "Effects of Repeated Reading and Sequential Reading on Oral Reading Fluency and Sight Word Knowledge." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1218721752.
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Amspaugh, Leigh Ann. "Effects of Student Choice on Delayed Reading Comprehension and Reading Fluency Across Three Reading Interventions." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu155528364333277.
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Janes, Jill L. "Families, motivation, and reading pre-adolescent students and their reading motivation and family reading habits /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2008.
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Arizpe, Evelyn. "Reading response : the reading processes of adolescent reluctant readers." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321327.
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Dunlop, Kirsten. "Rhetoric and the city : reading Alberti, reading urban design." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302090.
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This thesis addresses the affinities between rhetoric and architecture. It is an essay in cultural history prompted by the reading of a text: Leon Battista Alberti's famous, mid-Quattrocento treatise on architecture, De re aedificatoria. It is about the interrelation of rhetoric and architecture in the city in Italy between the Trecento and the Cinquecento. The argument is framed by the notion that the city is a duality involving material and discursive cultures. The built and the written city unites architecture and rhetoric as cognate cultural practices, a kinship which suggests that one can be read in terms of the other. Accordingly, this thesis proposes rhetoric as a tool for reading actual cities, and develops a model of rhetoric to apply to Italian medieval/Renaissancec ities basedo n a precedent found in De re aedificatoria. The thesis is arranged into two parts. The first involves a thorough reading of Alberti's treatise. Chapter One focuses on the analogy between rhetoric and architecture in his theory, arguing that De re aedificatoria demonstrates a comprehensive grafting of rhetoric onto architecture that goes beyond analogy. It further suggests that this interdisciplinary approach is a product of the humanist culture of which Alberti was a part. Chapter Two expands this reading by recognizing the long-standing history of association between rhetoric and architecture in literature, a history that has continued into modem discourse. That association is then discussed in general historical and cultural terms extrapolated from Alberti's text. These terms form the basis of case studies presented in the second part of the thesis. Given that rhetoric is integral to the design of the city, the second part of the thesis is a demonstration of two propositions: the first, that rhetoric is a useful way of reading actual cities; and the second, that rhetoric is a useful way of reading the history of actual cities. These propositions are explored in two thematically defined case studies. Chapter Three looks at the relationship between art and power in the urbanism of Florence from 1280 to 1560, with a brief comparative discussion of Herculean Ferrara (1471-1505). Chapter Four examines a rhetorical practice of intertextuality and textualauthority in the late-Quattrocento building projects of Pope Pius II at Pienza and Federico da Montefeltro at Urbino. Both Part One and Part Two are prefaced by introductions that establish the terms of the rhetoric used in this thesis. The Introduction to Part One offers an explanation in general theoretical terms of rhetoric's capacity to be an integrative public discourse. The Introduction to Part Two sketches a proposed rhetoric of the city which is applied comparatively in the case studies that follow. The thesis as a whole works to establish the coexistence of the built and written cities in history and to show how rhetoric is able to integrate them. It argues that rhetoric is an appropriate and flexible means of reading the complex interweaving of aesthetics and politics, memory, text, discourse and material culture, the real and the unreal, in the construction and articulation of the city
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Du, Plooy Annelie. "Reading strategies for effective reading comprehension / Annelie du Plooy." Thesis, Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9959.
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Ineffective reading takes place if the reader does not understand what he reads. Therefore
it is important for everybody to be able to make sense of what they read.
Teachers often do not pay enough attention to the teaching of comprehension in schools.
Reading comprehension is an aspect that has been the least adequately explained arid
therefore it is the most difficult one to teach. Even students think of it as only another
exercise of English and rush through it just to finish as soon as possible. Teachers hand
back the exercises and give the correct answers without instructing students on how to
improve their comprehension.
By teaching students different reading strategies their proficiency in comprehension may
improve. Most of the students are unaware of reading strategies and they don't know
how to implement them in their comprehension.•
This study offers an empirical investigation into the teaching of four specific reading
strategies to students in an attempt to help them to improve their reading comprehension.
The literature on language learning strategies and reading strategies, as well as the
teaching and learning of reading strategies, is surveyed. The results of an empirical
investigation into the teaching of four reading strategies (guessing the meaning of the
word from the context, finding the main idea in a passage, making inferences and
generalizing) indicate that, although there was only a marginal improvement in reading
comprehension, it is clear that the teaching of reading strategies has enormous potential.
English Second Language teachers may find it worth their while to implement the teaching
of reading strategies to develop their students' proficiency in reading comprehension.Thesis (MEd (Vakdidaktiek))--PU vir CHO, 1996
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Pearce, F. "Reading/reading theory : Durkheim on social order and disorder." Thesis, University of Essex, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332758.
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Morris, Janine. "Contexts of Digital Reading: How Genres Affect Reading Practices." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1459243445.
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Rudolf, Sloane Bailey. "A Naturalistic Test of Silent Reading and Reading Comprehension." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1586710401431423.
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Beers, Scott F. "Reading fluency and adolescent students' reading processes during writing /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7700.
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Dwyer, Edward J., and Valda Reed. "Effects of Sustained Silent Reading on Attitudes Toward Reading." ScholarWorks at WMU, 1989. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/reading_horizons/vol29/iss4/9.
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Sustained silent reading (SSR) is a practice involving readers in the process of reading over a designated time period. The basic assumption, in a pedagogical sense, is that practice in reading contributes to reading achievement. Durkin (1983) suggested that the focus of any reading program should be the development of competence in independent silent reading. In the same light, Gambrell (1978) proposed that "cormnonsense notions about the reading process tell us that independent reading skills are enhanced through daily practice in silent reading ... " (p. 328). On the other hand, little empirical research appears to have been undertaken to determine effects of sustained silent reading on either achievement or attitudes toward reading. However, some important studies have now been made. Some of the most relevant will be reviewed below.
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Dominick, Mary E. "A reading program for reading specialists in primary grades." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/728.
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YAMASHITA, JUNKO. "Influence of L1 Reading on L2 Reading : Different Perspectives from the Process and Product of Reading." 名古屋大学大学院国際言語文化研究科, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/7964.
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Chang, Shu-chieh, and 張淑婕. "The influences of Dialogic Reading and Flashcards Readingon Children’s Reading Ability and Interest." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39813771491485471002.
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This study discusses the influence of "Dialogic Reading" and "Flashcards Reading" on the reading ability and interest of children. The research method the study applies is "pretest-posttest control group design". The object of study is 28 children of the top class in a public kindergarten in Tainan City. They were divided randomly into the experimental group and the control group. A week before the experiment, the children of these two groups received the pretest of PPVT-R (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised) Form L, Preliminary Graded Chinese Character Recognition Test, target words in sketchbook test, and reading attitude test. The experiment lasted for ten weeks. A week later after the experiment, the children of two groups received the posttest of the four tests given above and story comprehension test in order to know the difference between the pretest and posttest of vocabulary comprehension, story comprehension, characters recognition ability and reading interest. One and a half months later, a tracking test of the five tests above was applied for the difference of abilities listed above that the children in these two groups had and for whether the test results possessed continued influences. The data was collected and analyzed by means of ANCOVA, t-test. The study results are as follows: 1. The flashcard group improved recognizing characters in sketchbooks, which was better than the dialogic group and the influence continued. 2. The flashcard group improved recognizing Chinese characters better than the dialogic group, but it had no continuous influence. 3. The dialogic group improved vocabulary comprehension better than the flashcard group and the influence continued. 4. The dialogic group improved story comprehension ability better than the flashcard group and the influence continued. 5. The dialogic group improved reading interest better than the flashcard group and the influence continued.