Engaging middle-school students in brief mindfulness exercises could boost their reading performance—and could offer an effective intervention to help youth from historically minoritized backgrounds, according to a new ...
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For years, research showed that print reading, whether for leisure or school, improved developing readers' ability to comprehend text. However, the explosive use of digital reading devices, constant access to these devices, ...
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Dec 13, 2023
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Numerous studies highlight vocabulary as a critical predictor determining word and text reading comprehension in monolingual and bilingual children, but when measuring vocabulary, most studies focus on either breadth or depth, ...
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Aug 21, 2023
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The simple view of reading (SVR) is a widely accepted theory that attempts to define the skills that contribute to early reading comprehension. It attributes a person's reading comprehension ability to two skills—word recognition ...
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Aug 17, 2023
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A survey of 284 Australian primary school teachers looking at the strategies used to teach reading comprehension, reveals practices that are ad hoc, with little agreement in the Australian primary teaching community about ...
Education
Jun 15, 2023
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Researchers of the HSE Centre for Language and Brain have investigated the impact of both auditory and visual noise on semantic processing during reading to determine if it results in a more superficial reading style that ...
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May 18, 2023
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Many children start school excited about learning to read. And parents too! After many years of reading and re-reading (seemingly ad nauseam) favorite picture books aloud, it's thrilling to see your child develop their own ...
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Jan 9, 2023
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Developmental language disorder or DLD is a lifelong disorder that affects language comprehension and expression. People with DLD find it more difficult to say what they mean and to understand others.
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Oct 17, 2022
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University of Central Florida researchers are part of a team that has found that there's no one-size-fits all approach to digital reading and that adjusting font style and size can increase reading speed while maintaining ...
Education
Jul 12, 2022
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In Steven Spielberg's 1977 film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," extraterrestrials communicate with humans through a catchy five-note sequence. In Spielberg's 1982 blockbuster "E.T.," a diminutive alien learns basic ...
Space Exploration
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