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Kate Cain; Nicola K. Currie; Gillian Francey; Robert Davies; Shelley Gray; Mindy S. Bridges; M. Adelaida Restrepo; Marilyn S. Thompson; Margeaux F. Ciraolo – Journal of Research in Reading, 2025
Background: We examined the influence of text and reader characteristics on sixth graders' inference generation. Methods: Eleven- to 12-year-old US monolingual English speakers (N = 71) and Spanish-English bilinguals (N = 81) read narrative and informational expository texts requiring an inference and answered an inference-tapping question after…
Descriptors: Reader Text Relationship, Student Characteristics, Grade 6, Inferences
Knight, Jennifer A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Students living in poverty continually score significantly lower than their more affluent peers on reading and writing achievement tests. One reason this literacy difference or gap may exist is a mismatch between students' background knowledge relevant to the text and the texts the students read daily in classrooms. It is well documented that…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Knowledge Level, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development
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Brown, Sally – Democracy & Education, 2015
Transaction circles weave together elements of guided reading and literature circles in an open conversational structure that supports students as agentive learners. Discourse within these circles utilizing digital informational texts assist in the development of democratic practices even in a time when federal mandates limit curricula and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Aesthetics
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Frambaugh-Kritzer, Charlotte; Buelow, Stephanie; Simpson Steele, Jamie – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2015
Disciplinary literacies in dance and drama are underrepresented in classrooms and in scholarship, especially at the elementary level. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine how preservice teachers constructed meaning of the disciplinary literacies in dance and drama. The theoretical framework guiding this study was drawn from…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Drama, Theater Arts, Elementary Education
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Ray, Melissa N.; Meyer, Bonnie J. F. – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2011
In this review of literature we examine empirical research of individual differences in younger readers' knowledge and use of expository text structures. The goal of this review is to explore the influence of reader and text characteristics in order to better understand the instructional needs of elementary school readers. First we review research…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Knowledge Level, Expository Writing, Literature Reviews
Granowsky, Alvin – Teaching Pre K-8, 2004
This article describes how content area readers/informational books can be used in beginning reading programs to support both literacy development and the learning of national standards-based content. Benefits from using content area readers/informational books with young readers include: (1) Certain children, often boys, are far more excited by…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Beginning Reading, Content Area Reading, Educational Strategies