Pupils' Voluntary Reading

Voluntary Reading 1 The Effects of a Voluntary Summer Reading Intervention on Reading Activities and Reading Achievement

[Reading characteristics of deaf and hard-of-hearing pupils].

BACKGROUND/AIM Speech motor mechanisms play a crucial role in the process of demutization, due to the fact that they cover all the elements of the successive development of spech production movements leading to speech formation (so-called kinesthesia in speach). The aim of this study was to estimate the impact of perceptual motor actions on the cognitive process of reading in 130 students in re...

Self-image and reading development: the effect of self-image on reading development among pupils in grade 2

The overall purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between self-image and different reading abilities among pupils with reading difficulties in grade 2. The purpose was also to examine whether there were any differences between typical readers and pupils with reading difficulties with regard to self-image. The empirical material consists of 130 pupils who were tested at fi...

Intervention in reading processes in pupils with Specific Language Impairment (SLI).

BACKGROUND Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) encounter significant difficulties in learning to read. The aim of this research was to determine the efficacy of an intervention program on reading processes (letter identification, lexical processes, syntactic processes and semantic processes) in children with SLI. METHOD The sample consisted of a total of 34 pupils diagnosed with ...

University-level practical activities in bioinformatics benefit voluntary groups of pupils in the last 2 years of school

Background: Bioinformatics—the use of computers in biology—is of major and increasing importance to biological sciences and medicine. We conducted a preliminary investigation of the value of bringing practical, university-level bioinformatics education to the school level. We conducted voluntary activities for pupils at two schools in Scotland (years S5 and S6; pupils aged 15–17). We used mater...