Reading Behaviors
STUDENTS—Survey | Students described their respective reading behaviors using a rating scale from 1 ( not at all like me ) to 4 ( a lot like me ). After participating in LitCamp, 94% of Grade 5 students reported “reading different kinds of books” —a statistically significant increase from 81% at the beginning of LitCamp; see Exhibit 1.
Exhibit 1. Change in Grade 5 Students' Reading Behaviors After participating in LitCamp, significantly more Grade 5 students rated “reading different kinds of books” a little like me or a lot like me than at the beginning of LitCamp.
Baseline
81%
Follow-up
94%
n = 52
TEACHERS—Survey | Teachers rated how effectively LitCamp cultivated students’ reading behaviors on a scale from 1 ( not at all effective ) to 5 ( extremely effective ). Exhibit 2 shows that of the 50 teachers who completed an end-of-session survey, over three quarters rated LitCamp as effective at cultivating students’ reading independently (84%), choosing books (82%), reading different kinds of books (82%), and reading aloud (80%)—with a high percentage of teachers rating LitCamp as very or extremely effective at cultivating students’ ability to read aloud (52%), read independently (48%), read different kinds of books (48%), and choose books (42%).
Exhibit 2. Effectiveness of LitCamp at Cultivating Students' Reading Skills Most teachers rated LitCamp as effective at cultivating students' reading abilities:
84%
82%
82%
80%
Read independently
Choose books
Read different kinds of books
Read aloud
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