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Does reading extensively as a child make you smarter in terms of academic scores?

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Does reading extensively as a child make you smarter in terms of academic scores?

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Article Citation: Byrant, P., Nunes, T., & Barros, R. (2014) The connection between children’s knowledge and use of grapho-phonic and morphemic units in written text and their learning at school. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 84, 211-225

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What were the Authors trying to figure out?

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What were the Authors trying to figure out?

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The authors were trying to see if children's ability to read and write were related to success in other areas of school like English, math, and Science.

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“The study’s aims were to see whether two successful measures of the processes underlying children’s learning to read and write are related to their success in English, science, and mathematics as measured by school assessments(Bryant, Nunes, Barros, 2014, pg. 211).”

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The study had 3 stages so the participants ranged from Elementary students to Middle School students.

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How old were they and how many were there?

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How old were they and how many were there?

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Stage 1 consisted of 8-9 year olds while stages 2 and 3, were 12 - 14 year olds.

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The results were taken from about 2500 students from all across the country

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How was the study conducted and how did the researchers collect the data?

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How was the study conducted and how did the researchers collect the data?

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The researchers collected their data via a case study split in 3 stages. The whole study was conducted by a correlational method by comparing scores of children during different stages of life .

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Children's reading and writing abilities directly correlate with their success in other fields of academics such as English, Math, and Science, both negatively and positively. This means that children with a higher understanding of reading during the first stage, had better scores in all other forms of academics in the last 2 stages.

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One or more ways you think the study was well designed?

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One or more ways you think the study was well designed?

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The study was split into 3 stages. The first stage is when the students are 8 or 9. The last 2 stages are 3 to 5 years later. I think that this is great because it goes across a larger span of time which can give you broader results. This is important because students change and elongating the study can give you results that match the changing of the student.

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Identify 2 specific ways you see the study could be improved or extended

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Identify 2 specific ways you see the study could be improved or extended

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The first thing I would do for the study is add another stage to it 3 or so years after stage 2 and 3. The students would be in high school at this time. Large exams would be going on at this point and maybe correlating students exam scores with the results from the earlier stages can prove an even larger point and improve the study. The second thing that I would do differently is to sort the results out by school district. It’s not a priority of the study, but the information regarding certain school district’s results could be useful to many.

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Considering that I want to be an English teacher, the information provided by this study is extremely critical for me. It basically says that those with an elevated reading level and understanding do better in the other aspects of academics and life.  That means that it is important for me to help children develop their reading level and do as much as I can for them in that aspect. Now that I have this knowledge, I am able to fine tune how I talk with children about what’s important. I can help them discover the beauty that is reading and get them on a path to success because of it. The broad implications of this research is that children need to read. Starting at a young age. It’s only going to help them later on in life.

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjep.12030