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Towards A Literature of Actions: Green Informational Picturebooks and Critical Engagement with Fighting Climate Change
This article investigates selected environmental informational picturebooks in which – often in both the main text and the peritext – readers find...
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Ozone Layer Depletion in Children’s Books Available in Greece: examining accuracy in the representation of causes of ozone layer depletion in texts
This article discusses the content accuracy in the representation of causes of ozone layer depletion in children’s books. The current study analyzed...
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Examining Agency in Children’s Nonfiction Picture Books
Given increased attention toward nonfiction and informational texts due to recent educational reforms in the nation, it is critical to examine how...
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Gendered Assumptions in the Framing of Fitness in Sports Nonfiction for Young Adult Readers
This Critical Comparative Content Analysis employs theories of poststructuralist feminism to examine two versions of a nonfiction fitness text for...
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Adopting Ocean-Themed Picture Books to Promote Ocean Literacy in Primary Education
Children’s literature about the ocean is a valuable learning tool for increasing ocean literacy in formal education. This instruction is,...
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Gender differences in reading medium, time, and text types: Patterns of student reading habits and the relation to reading performance
Reading habits play an active role in promoting students’ reading skills and making them prepared to participate in modern society. Gender...
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Pinkwashing Picturebooks: Reading Homonational Heroes Through Contemporary US LGBTQ + Biographies
This article reports on a critical content analysis of contemporary picturebook biographies featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or...
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NILC-Metrix: assessing the complexity of written and spoken language in Brazilian Portuguese
The objective of this paper is to present and make publicly available the NILC-Metrix, a computational system comprising 200 metrics proposed in...
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Supporting inference-making during COVID-19 through individualized scaffolding and feedback: a natural experiment
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the role of the Early Language Comprehension Individualized Instruction (ELCII) program in supporting...
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Nature’s Puzzles: An Ecocritical Theorisation of Children’s Activity Books
A large proportion of contemporary children’s activity books are nature-themed, focusing on animals, ecosystems or seasons, for example. Their...
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Fictionalised Non-fiction Picturebooks for Preschoolers: Children’s Responses to Imaginary Constructs in Designed Reading Activities
Contemporary non-fiction picturebooks for children are often fictionalised in one way or another. Many non-fiction picturebooks for children are thus...
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An Investigation of the Functionality of Peritextual Elements in Graphic Novels
Although scholars have explored the meaning-making affordances of peritextual features such as dust jackets, case covers, beginning and final...
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Develo** and Using Teaching Materials
The chapter introduces the second indicator of MADE: Develo** and Using Teaching Materials. It focuses on how teaching materials can be used to...
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Relation between digital tool practices in the language arts classroom and reading comprehension scores
Concerns about the negative effects of digitalization on students’ reading comprehension, empirically backed by recent meta-analyses, question the...
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The Intersections of Religion and Science in NSTA-OSTB Biographies
This article explores depictions of religion and religious topics in children's biographies included on the National Science Teacher’s Association’s...
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Reading as a Co** Strategy
This chapter focuses on reading as a co** strategy. We first draw on the relationship between reading and wellbeing and examine some of the ways...
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Chinese secondary school students’ reading engagement profiles: associations with reading comprehension
The current study aimed to identify stable and interpretable profiles of 18,338 Chinese secondary school students in eighth grade on the basis of...
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Incorporating Informal e-Learning into Foreign Language Teaching Through Collaborative Personalization
Modern education, more often than not, takes the path of personalization of the learning process. This personalization is better achieved through...
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Morphological awareness and vocabulary predict reading resilience in adults
Resilient readers comprehend written language despite word reading deficits. The reading resiliency framework specifies candidate protective factors...
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The print exposure of teacher candidates in relation to their achievement and self-ratings of early reading experiences
This study examined the print exposure of teacher candidates (N = 195) in relation to their GPAs, achievement in reading and writing on the SAT, and...