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Reading readers: An examination of the aesthetic reading events of four experienced readers of narrative fiction reading self-selected novels.
(1997)
This investigation focused on (1) transactions between the readers and the novels they had chosen, (2) the readers' purposes and processes, (3) and the contexts, experiential and socio-cultural, that influence these readers ...
Young children's self-perceptions of competency in literacy during one-on-one tutoring.
(1999)
Findings from this study provide evidence of the importance of one-on-one instruction for children considered at-risk for school failure in influencing continued engagement in literacy tasks (reading and writing), the ...
Rethinking professional development concerning comprehension strategy instruction.
(2007)
The focus of this mixed methods study was to determine if one form of professional development was more effective than another in promoting teacher change in incorporating comprehension strategies to support students ...
The adolescent's sense of being literate: Reshaping through classroom transitions.
(2007)
The study revealed that the students' sense of being literate was reshaped. The majority of the students described themselves as better readers and even more so as writers. Relationships and goal setting played key roles ...
An examination of the effect of teacher read-aloud on adolescent attitudes and learning in science.
(2007)
A repeated measures analysis suggested both teacher read-aloud and silent reading were appropriate for student learning but results do not support either method as superior over the other. Multiple regression analyses were ...
Chasing the shadow: A heuristic look at reader-response.
(2006)
What is the experience of reader-response from the learner's and teachers' perspectives? The purpose of the research reported here was to explore the students' and teachers' perspectives regarding literature and the ...
Intertextuality and the social construction of meaning.
(2006)
The purpose of this study was to examine intertextual links made by second grade students during a variety of reading experiences and how they create meaning through those links. The guiding questions for the study are: ...
Are our children reading proficiently and how would we know? An examination of state and national elementary reading assessments.
(2007)
The states were divided into groups by performance levels based on the difference in the proportion of students scoring at proficient levels and above between their state and the NAEP 2005 fourth grade reading assessments ...
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(1997)
The results of this study substantiated aspects of the learning theories which were applied. It was observed, however, that classroom instruction was in many instances not consistent with such theories and in these cases ...
Conversations among multiple voices: Merging and emerging stories of beginning literacy teachers as professional decision-makers.
(2000)
Participants included one male and ten female undergraduate students majoring in elementary and/or early childhood education. Data sources included the preservice teachers' responses to two types of pre-and-post survey ...