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First Steps toward a Full and Flexible Literacy: Case Studies of the Four Resources Model
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Rush, Leslie S. – Reading Research and Instruction, 2004
This article provides case studies of three middle school students--two female and one male--who participated in an individual summer tutoring program designed to improve students' reading comprehension and to encourage students to think critically about texts. With the researcher, students read and discussed Internet texts and wrote responses. An…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Reading Comprehension, Case Studies, Literacy Education