Search results for: Reading comprehension

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Teaching Disciplinary Literacy to Adolescents : Rethinking Content-Area Literacy
Authors: Shanahan Timothy, Shanahan Cynthia
In this article, the authors argue that “disciplinary literacy” — advanced literacy instruction embedded within content-area classes such as math, science, and social studies — should be a focus of middle and secondary school settings.
Published: 2008
Updated: Jun. 16, 2008
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Supporting Social Studies Reading Comprehension with an Electronic Pop-up Dictionary
Authors: Fry Sara Winstead, Gosky Ross
This study investigated how middle school students’ comprehension was impacted by reading social studies texts online with a pop-up dictionary function for every word in the text. A quantitative counterbalance design was used to determine how 129 middle school students’ reading comprehension test scores for the pop-up dictionary reading differed from test scores for reading hard-copy texts or an online text without the dictionary.
Published: 2008
Updated: Mar. 09, 2008