由2012年全民阅读调查引发的思考—图书馆与全民阅读

阅读是人们获取知识,提高自身素质和解决问题的主要途径,2012年全民阅读调查的结果引发了关于图书馆与全民阅读相关问题的思考。文章分析了图书馆在推进全民阅读中存在的问题,提出了图书馆利用自身优势促进全民阅读的举措。     

基于图书馆联盟的公共图书馆全民阅读推广研究

近年来,公共图书馆积极推广全民阅读活动,取得了一定成果,然而全民阅读率低、全民阅读活动效果不佳、全民阅读宣传方式被动等问题凸显。图书馆联盟是全民阅读活动的倡导者、组织者和实施者,为成员馆提供交流平台,促进协作,谋求共同发展。基于图书馆联盟的公共图书馆全民阅读推广应成立联盟阅读推广委员会,制定联盟阅读计划,建立联盟阅读推广长效机制,开展持续高效的全民阅读推广活动。     

浅谈开展全民阅读活动的重要意义

对我国全民阅读现状进行分析,思考形成这一现状的原因,提出相应的对策,推动全民阅读。家庭、学校、社会形成合力,共同引领全民阅读,形成一种良好的阅读习惯。全民阅读应得到应有的重视。     

基层公共图书馆推进全民阅读策略探析——以宁波市鄞州区图书馆为例

文章从全民阅读的起源及我国全民阅读的现状入手,阐述了公共图书馆在推进全民阅读中的职能和优势,进而以宁波市鄞州区图书馆为例,提出了县(区)级图书馆可通过延伸基础网络、提升软件服务、引入科技手段、扩大阅读对象、增进互动交流、打造书香品牌等手段,积极发挥在全民阅读中的主阵地作用。     

对高校图书馆推进全民阅读的思考

高校图书馆是全民阅读的重要阵地与服务者,是促进全民阅读的有生力量。文章论述了高校图书馆开展全民阅读的必要性,提出了有效推进全民阅读活动的对策。     

新媒体时代高校图书馆服务社区的发展模式

图书馆是全民阅读的重要阵地与服务者,是促进全民阅读的有生力量。本文论述了全民阅读中高校图书馆的社会责任,提出了高校图书馆进入全民阅读的模式。     

以书润德以书资政——我国机关事业单位干部阅读情况调查报告

阅读关乎民族的兴盛和进步。在我国,促进全民阅读正在成为一项基本的国家公共文化政策不断得到社会各界的普遍响应。近年来,从国家战略层面倡导全民阅读的呼声也越来越高,各省、各地区的国民阅读活动丰富开展,与此同时,全国国民阅读调查项目的社会影响力也在日益提高,调查项目本身也正在逐步成为反映全民阅读活动开展效果的晴雨表,为建立促进全民阅读的长效机制起到了重要的参照作用。     

全民阅读现状及公共图书馆推进全民阅读的措施探讨

阅读对于芸芸众生,是一种生活的组成。无论是知识的获取,还是道德的完善,始终离不开阅读。本文通过对我国全民阅读现状的分析,找到了全民阅读率走低的原因,提出了图书馆作为人类阅读活动的基本场所,应在倡导全民阅读、推进全民阅读方面肩负起重任,以推动全民阅读的发展。     

新媒体时代高校图书馆服务社区的发展模式

图书馆是全民阅读的重要阵地与服务者,是促进全民阅读的有生力量。本文论述了全民阅读中高校图书馆的社会责任,提出了高校图书馆进入全民阅读的模式。     

试论全民阅读社会中图书馆的责任与作用

从倡导全民阅读,推进社会文明进步,构建和谐社会出发,图书馆做为全民阅读的重要机构,要肩负起应有的责任与使命,充分发挥其职能作用,为全民阅读更好地服务,从而构建文明和谐的阅读型社会。     

Reading Attitudes and Literacy Skills in Prekindergarten and Kindergarten Children

The current study addressed the development of reading attitudes and their relationship to reading skills. Forty-one prekindergarten and kindergarten learners in 1 of 3 cohorts were assessed 2 or 4 times during the course of a year. Findings indicated a slight decrease in reading attitudes during the kindergarten year. Expected increases in skills were generally indicated with pronounced increases in sight word recognition during the kindergarten year, after other skills had been mastered. Decreases in some skills were evident after summer recess. Other findings from the study and recommendations for future research and practice are provided.     

Children's perceptions of wider reading: to what extent do 7- and 8-year-old children read beyond the scheme books?

A case study was conducted with a class of twenty 7- to 8-year-old children in a primary school in the North West of England, to explore possible links between the use of a school reading scheme and children's involvement in wider reading. A questionnaire was administered to all children in the class, followed by semi-structured interviews with three children. The findings revealed that the vast majority of the children held extremely positive views of their reading scheme books but were also very enthusiastic wider readers, be it either independent reading or reading with a parent or carer. Further findings emerged suggest that environmental factors, such as access to books at home and library usage, also play an important part in children's involvement in wider reading.     

Evaluating the effects of repeated reading and continuous reading using a standardized dosage of words read

Repeated reading (RR) is a common fluency intervention, but recent studies comparing RR to continuous reading (CR; i.e., wide reading) found no significant differences in effects. This prompts the question of whether the mechanism that improves skills is repeatedly reading portions of connected text, or simply reading connected text. The current study examined the differential effectiveness of RR and CR for increasing oral reading fluency rate (ORF) and comprehension of 40 students in second and third grades, randomly assigned to receive the RR or CR intervention. Students in both conditions received a standardized amount of practice (dosage) in the form of number of words read during each intervention session. All but two participants increased their ORF and there were no significant differences between groups on posttest ORF or broad comprehension. Moreover, students with the highest pretest scores made slightly more growth regardless of condition. Students in the RR group demonstrated significantly higher comprehension of practiced passages and students in the CR condition reported significantly higher levels of intervention acceptability. Implications for reading fluency intervention research and practice are discussed.     

Determining the academic and affective outcomes of dyad reading among third graders

Abstract

Dyad reading involves a lower level reader paired with a higher level reading partner who models proficient oral reading while providing access to challenging texts. Previous research has reported increased reading fluency and comprehension for participants of dyad reading; however, to date no research has investigated how dyad reading may influence student attitudes toward reading. Using mixed effects linear modeling, this quasi-experimental study of third graders investigated the academic and attitudinal outcomes for students who read in dyads for 15?minutes daily for 90 school days. Results indicated that dyad readers experienced mixed outcomes in improving reading proficiency and a pattern of decline in reading attitudes compared to students in the control group. While lower level dyad readers demonstrated significant gains on a measure of comprehension, there were no differences between groups on several other measures of reading. Recommendations target how to maximize the use of dyad reading to support students’ reading development without eroding their perceptions of themselves as readers.     

The simple view of reading

A simple view of reading was outlined that consisted of two components, decoding and linguistic comprehension, both held to be necessary for skilled reading. Three predictions drawn from the simple view were assessed in a longitudinal sample of English-Spanish bilingual children in first through fourth grade. The results supported each prediction: (a) The linear combination of decoding and listening comprehension made substantial contributions toward explaining variation in reading comprehension, but the estimates were significantly improved by inclusion of the product of the two components; (b) the correlations between decoding and listening comprehension tended to become negative as samples were successively restricted to less skilled readers; and (c) the pattern of linear relationships between listening and reading comprehension for increasing levels of decoding skill revealed constant intercept values of zero and positive slope values increasing in magnitude. These results support the view that skill in reading can be simply characterized as the product of skill in decoding and linguistic comprehension. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the simple view for the practice of reading instruction, the definition of reading disability, and the notion of literacy.     

Contextual effects on predicting risk for reading difficulties in first and second grade

This study utilized early reading assessment data from a randomized trial of 210 urban and rural schools in Texas to examine contextual effects on risk prediction in first and second grade. The primary objective was to examine the roles of (a) individual differences, (b) the grade 1 classroom, and (c) the pairing of first and second grade teachers in determining grade 2 outcomes in word reading and fluency. A second objective was to investigate whether the administration format of the assessment (paper, paper plus desktop, handheld plus desktop) or the level of teacher support (web mentoring, no mentoring) moderated the prediction. These moderator variables proved not to be significant. Subsequent analyses found that a combination of student pretest and mean of pretest classroom was a better predictor than student pretest alone. Additionally, the effect of student scores varied by teacher-pair. On average, intraclass correlations (ICCs) ranged from 6% to 17%. Differences in ICCs at the classroom level were much greater than at the school level, and differences in urban schools were twice that of rural schools.     

Measurement invariance and validity of a brief questionnaire on reading motivation in elementary students

In order to initiate more research on the role of reading motivation during the initial stages of learning to comprehend texts, we developed the Reading Motivation Questionnaire for Elementary Students (RMQ‐E). The sample comprised 1497 elementary students in Grades 1–3. By means of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, three factors were determined: Curiosity, involvement and competition. The three‐factor structure of the RMQ‐E was found to be invariant across grade levels (scalar invariance) and across female and male students (strict invariance). As was anticipated, students in higher grades and male students were lower in curiosity and involvement than students in lower grades and female students. Whereas competitive reading motivation did not differ across grade levels, it was higher for boys than for girls. Moreover, the contributions of involvement and competition to reading amount and reading competence were in accordance with the hypotheses. The predictive validity of curiosity, however, was not confirmed.     

The effects of dyad reading and text difficulty on third-graders’ reading achievement

This study replicated, with modifications, previous research of dyad reading using texts at various levels of difficulty (Morgan, 1997). The current project measured the effects of using above–grade-level texts on reading achievement and sought to determine the influences of dyad reading on both lead and assisted readers. Results indicate that weaker readers, using texts at two, three, and four grade levels above their instructional levels with the assistance of lead readers, outscored both proficient and less proficient students in the control group across multiple measures of reading achievement. However, the gains made by assisted readers were not significantly different relative to the various text levels. When all assessments were considered, assisted readers reading texts two grade levels above their instructional levels showed the most robust gains in oral reading fluency and comprehension. Lead readers also benefited from dyad reading and continued their respective reading developmental trajectories across measures.     

The Beautiful and the Ugly: Reading Ability Modulates Word Spacing Effects in Chinese Children

There are no salient word spaces in Mandarin Chinese. Thus, it is unclear whether word spacing information differentially affects the reading speed of children with and without reading difficulties (RD). In the present study, native Chinese-speaking children of differential reading abilities were tested with Chinese text in un-spaced versus spaced versions at different time points during training. The results indicated that spaced texts slow down reading speeds in children without RD. In contrast, spaced texts improved reading speeds in children with reading difficulties after some training took place. These findings suggest that the effect of word spacing information on Chinese reading might vary as a function of individual differences in reading abilities. We argue that children with RD can accommodate to the spaced text better than children without RD and that they can take advantage of using bottom-up spacing information to segment and recognize words in text.     

A comparison of reading aloud,silent reading and follower reading. Which is best for comprehension? / Una comparación de lectura en voz alta,lectura en silencio y lectura de seguimiento. ¿Cuál es mejor para la comprensión?

When reading in the classroom, teachers may use different methods. We examined the impact of different reading conditions on comprehension. Reading aloud involved reading the text aloud for an audience. Silent reading required the students to read the text silently. Follower reading involved listening to another student read the text aloud while having the text available for individual reading. Thirty-six fifth- and sixth-grade students read texts under the three conditions and then took comprehension tests. The students performed equally well under reading aloud and silent reading. Follower reading resulted in worse comprehension. The data suggest that the follower readers focused on their individual reading, making an effort not to listen to the student reading out loud, which consumed cognitive resources. Since reading aloud in the classroom involves not only one loud reader but also a lot of follower readers, silent reading might be the smartest choice.