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Despite in schools girls and boys are given equal opportunities, there are some factors that affect female students that lead them to disengage from education. Reasons for the disengagement from education by girls are poverty, early marriage, teenage pregnancy, harmful traditional practices like initiation rites , and gender-based violence .
Free voluntary reading (FVR) or recreation reading, related to the comprehension hypothesis, is an educational theory that says many student gains in reading can be encouraged by giving them time to read what they want without too many evaluative measures. Sustained silent reading is a method of implementing recreational and FVR theory.
Before the reintroduction of separated text (spaces between words) in the Late Middle Ages, the ability to read silently may have been considered rather remarkable, though some scholars object to this idea. [2] [3] [4] In contrast, reading aloud activates many more parts of the brain due to the dual-route of feedback when pronouncing and reading.
A conservative activist group says a high school student was laughed at when she declined to read a passage from a much debated young adult novel. Were students asked to read aloud about masturbation?
"The Pet Goat" is designed to teach students about words ending in the letter E, using the Direct Instruction (DI) teaching method. The exercise tells a story about a girl's pet goat , which her parents want to get rid of because it eats everything; the parents relent after it foils a robbery by butting the intruder, who is now "sore" (that ...
Not long ago, Linda Khan was sitting by a hospital bed in Houston, feeling ill at ease. On the day I stopped by, a retired opera singer was reading the sci-fi thriller Logan’s Run to half a ...
Children's books also benefit children's social and emotional development. Reading books help "personal development and self-understanding by presenting situations and characters with which our own can be compared". [181] Children's books often present topics that children can relate to, such as love, empathy, family affection, and friendship.
Between the Lions is an American animated/live-action/puppet educational children's television series designed to promote reading.The show is a co-production between WGBH in Boston and Sirius Thinking, Ltd., in New York City, in association with Mississippi Public Broadcasting, the distributor from seasons 1–10.