Melanie Kühn, Paula J. Schwanenflugel, Elizabeth B. Meisinger
ABSTRACTOver the past decade, fluent reading has come to be seen as a central
component of skilled reading and a driving force in the literacy curriculum.
However, much of this focus has centered on a relatively narrow definition of
reading fluency, one that emphasizes automatic word recognition. This article
attempts to expand this understanding by synthesizing several key aspects of
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ABSTRACTSThis article explains the creation and validation of the Narrative
Comprehension of Picture Books task (NC task), an assessment of young children's
comprehension of wordless picture books. Study 1 explored developmental changes
among 158 K‐2 children in narrative comprehension and the correlations among
children's performance on the NC task and other measures of early reading. There
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Michael C. McKenna, Kristin Conradi, Camille Lawrence, Bong Gee Jang, Joseph P. Meyer
AbstractTo examine the current state of reading attitudes among middle school
students in the United States, a survey was developed and administered to 4,491
students in 23 states plus the District of Columbia. The instrument comprised
four subscales measuring attitudes toward: recreational reading in print
settings, recreational reading in digital settings, academic reading in print
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ABSTRACTSA counterbalanced, within‐subjects design was carried out to study the
efficacy of electronic books in fostering kindergarten children's emergent story
understanding. The study compared effects of children's independent reading of
stories electronically with effects of printed books read aloud by adults.
Participants were 18 four‐ to five‐year‐old Dutch kindergarten children in the
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