Metacognitive reading skills in academic support: A transactionist perspective of the relationship between reading and learning

‘Eighteen hands high’: A narrative reading of Animal Farm from a mathematical perspective

“…Research has shown that a literate home background in which parents read a great deal themselves and also read to their young children, and in which there is a significant collection of varied books which children have opportunities to read themselves, contributes significantly to the level of achievement in later life. Following on from this, a number of studies have shown that the amount of leisure reading in which individuals engage is directly related to their reading achievement (Evans, 2002). Most sub-Saharan countries suffer from a scarcity of materials for students to read on their own, materials such as storybooks or informational texts.…”