Browsing Publikasjoner fra CRIStin by Subject "literacy"
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Children’s Agency by Design: Design parameters for personalization in story-making apps
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09)The importance of children’s agency in the use of technologies is well-established but it continues to be challenged with applications that automatically personalize children’s content. This paper integrates educational ... -
Children’s Olfactory Picturebooks: Charting New Trends in Early Childhood Education
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-03)Converging global trends (digitization, globalization, datafication) have influenced all aspects of children’s literacies, including children’s picturebooks. The recent turn towards embodied, affective and sensory literacies, ... -
Critical literacy in the language classroom: Possibilities for intercultural learning through symbolic competence
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article provides a theoretical exploration of the connections between critical literacy and symbolic competence with some pedagogical examples from an empirical study. More specifically, we argue that critical literacy ... -
Developmental Dynamics of Early Reading Skill, Literacy Interest and Reader Self-Concept Within the First Year of Formal Schooling
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-04)Previous studies have documented robust relationships between emergent literacy and later reading performance. A growing body of research has also reported associations between motivational factors and reading in early ... -
Do Book Giveaway Programs Promote the Home Literacy Environment and Children’s Literacy-Related Behavior and Skills?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-05)Book giveaway programs provide free books to families with infants to encourage caregivers to begin reading to their children during infancy. This meta-analysis of 44 studies retrieved from 43 articles tests the effects ... -
Do You Get the Picture? A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Graphics on Reading Comprehension
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01)Although convergent research demonstrates that well-designed graphics can facilitate readers’ understanding of text, there are select situations where graphics have been shown to have no effect on learners’ overall text ... -
Does Introducing the Letters Faster Boost the Development of Children’s Letter Knowledge, Word Reading and Spelling in the First Year of School?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-05)Learning the relationships between letters and sounds is a key component of early literacy development and a central aim during the first year of school. Introducing one new letter a week is the most common approach in ... -
An empirical investigation of parent-child shared reading of digital personalized books
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-12)Numerous studies have documented the benefits of parent-child shared reading of print books, but few studies have examined parent-child reading behaviours with digital personalized books. This lab-based study examined the ... -
Free access to multilingual digital books: a tool to increase book reading?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The objective of the study was to examine how providing access to multilingual digital picture books affected the reading habits and language development of children from bilingual families. The study included 41 children ... -
Glimpses of dialogue: transitional practices in digitalised classrooms
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)This socio-culturally informed qualitative study examines digitalised classrooms in Norwegian secondary schools, with a focus on the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) and dialogic aspects ... -
Hvordan har didaktiske dilemma i undervisningsplanlegging konsekvenser for literacy-praksis? – et eksempel fra et geografiemne i ungdomsskolens samfunnsfag
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)When new ideas or curriculum find their way into schools, it is the teachers’ job to transform them into teachable units. Transformations demand ongoing choices in dilemmas between structure and improvisation. This study ... -
The importance of sensorial and spatial aspects in family reading at home: Insights from a national survey in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Purpose The study investigated the relationships between spatial, multisensorial, and structural factors in family reading routines. Materials 1001 survey responses and 926 open-ended answers of parents of 3- to ... -
Literacy instruction in first grade: classroom-level associations between reading skills and literacy instruction activities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-02)Background Adapting instruction to individual students' needs is known to be effective, but there is a lack of evidence whether students' reading skills are associated with literacy instruction activities at classroom-level. ... -
Literacy practices in co-taught early years classrooms. Study protocol: The Seaside case.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01)The present protocol describes the background, theoretical framework and methods for a qualitative study of co-taught, Norwegian, L1 classrooms—The Seaside case. The participants are six classes and their teachers from six ... -
Literary Reading on Paper and Screens: Associations Between Reading Habits and Preferences and Experiencing Meaningfulness
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024-01)The increasing use of digital technologies has implications for reading. Online and on-screen reading often consist of engaging with multiple, short, multimedia snippets of information, whereas longform reading is in ... -
A Model of the Home Literacy Environment and Family Risk of Reading Difficulty in Relation to Children’s Preschool Emergent Literacy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study extends the research on the preschool home literacy environment (HLE) in the context of the family risk (FR) of reading disability (RD) by examining a multiple-deficit model of RD. A total of 1171 six-year-old ... -
Multisensory Reading in Early Childhood: Systematic Review with Theoretical Guidance for Human Development Studies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Our systematic qualitative analysis advances the field of human development with an integrative review of sensory research in children’s reading of books and e-books. Based on a systematic literature review of 35 papers, ... -
Organizing Shared Digital Reading in Groups: Optimizing the Affordances of Text and Medium
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-12)Children develop their language when they explore and talk about literary texts. In this study, we explore the design of shared digital reading as a basis for critical reflection on the reading situation in an institutional ... -
The Predictors of Literacy Skills among Monolingual and Bilingual Finnish–Swedish Children During First Grade
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07)The aim of the study was to examine which predictor variables are related to literacy skills among monolingual Swedish (n = 269) and bilingual Finnish–Swedish (n = 229) children at the first grade in the Swedish-speaking ... -
Promoting EFL literacy through shared and individual classroom reading experiences of literature.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)I denna artikel undersöks hur gemensam och individuell litteraturupplevelse i klassrumet kan hjälpa elever i låg-, mellan- och högstadiet att utveckla sin engelska literacy, det vill säga sin förmåga att läsa och skriva ...