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Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2014
Thousands and thousands of middle school students around the world participate in reading intervention programs, many that are very expensive with limited effectiveness. We wanted to know if an after-school intervention focused on close reading procedures could improve student achievement. Close reading of complex text involves annotations,…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Middle School Students, Reading Difficulties
Schillinger, Trace – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
In 2006, a secondary English and feminist studies teacher created a course and designed a study around a reading exchange for eighth-grade girls from two vastly different communities. Girls from a school in a northeastern state read young adult novels and wrote about their reading and related topics with girls from Washington, DC on a wikispace…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Females, Background, Differences