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Zucker, Lauren – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Adolescents spend a significant portion of the day on digital devices, yet we know very little about their out-of-school reading practices. While screen recording technology allows researchers to record and view videos of digital reading, the majority of studies exploring digital reading limit participants' reading to researcher-selected texts and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Electronic Publishing, Reading Habits, Interviews
Suico, Theresa Go – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Young adult literature has been a subject of contention for educators, adolescent psychologists, and critics for decades. Although some commentators maintain that young adult literature can be educationally and developmentally beneficial for adolescent readers, others argue that it often contains negative and potentially harmful messages that…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Females, Adolescent Literature, Femininity
Mattos, Monika Lauren – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Reading for pleasure is a topic often overlooked in literacy research. Given reading for pleasure's personal, academic, and social relevance, it should be considered a foreground factor in literacy studies. This case study draws from a sociocultural approach and uses Third Space Theory and Rosenblatt's Transactional Theory of Reading to explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Recreational Reading
Johnson, Sunni – ProQuest LLC, 2011
When people read, they often make connections to their lives, the world, and other texts. Often, these connections are not overt, but are a thinking process invisible to observers. The purpose of this study was to explore the intertextual connections struggling middle school students made as they read multiple topically-related texts to build…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Difficulties, Constructivism (Learning), Reading Comprehension
Pan, Pamela Lidan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Through this research project, I aim to address three problems in the instruction of basic skills students. First, despite the large number of students enrolled in community college basic skills programs, the success rate is low. Second, many basic skills courses are taught with drill and memorization, with little attention paid to intellectually…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Basic Skills, Literacy Education, Instructional Design
Dong, Hongmei – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Elementary children's sense of audience related to their multimodal information writing was examined. Forty-six third graders' interviews about the books that they created at the end of a science unit were analyzed to understand children's conception of audience, the connection between their sense of audience and their composing process, and their…
Descriptors: Imagination, Audience Awareness, Audience Response, Audiences
Schreier, Virginia A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Although scholars have long advocated the use of informational texts in the primary grades, gaps and inconsistencies in research have produced conflicting reports on how teachers used these texts in the primary curriculum, and how primary students dealt with them during instruction and on their own (e.g., Saul & Dieckman, 2005). Thus, to add…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Teachers, Instructional Materials, Scientific Literacy
Kelly, Ryan Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined the discourse of preservice teacher candidates in order to better identify those practices and experiences by which they shape their identity and conceptualize their role in teaching. The study's purpose was to find out (a) how secondary preservice teacher candidates conceptualize the practice of their teaching, (b) what…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum
Manak, Jennifer Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Teachers frequently read aloud as a part of writing instruction so that children's book authors can serve as mentors for students' writing. Despite extensive anecdotal reporting of the significance of reading aloud children's literature within writing workshop, the intertextual connections students construct between interactive read alouds and…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Childrens Literature, Mentors, Reading Aloud to Others
Moransky-Miller, Marlo R. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore how three struggling, sixth grade readers experienced an after-school program designed to increase their affective and cognitive reading performance. Research in the areas of vocabulary acquisition, reading strategy development, discussion of text, time spent reading, engagement, and reader self-perception…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Reading Difficulties, Special Needs Students
Madden, Angie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined the literacy identity development of fourth graders engaged in a writer's workshop, with literacy identity development referring to the ways students come to see themselves as readers and writers or the ways that others come to see them as readers and writers. The researcher collected data through observations during writing…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Grade 4, Literacy, Elementary School Students
Enger Waller, Rachael J. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In a rural community there is a risk that readers will not find connections to their own lives, which may affect the pleasure gained from reading. The purpose of this qualitative study is to examine the use of literature in a small rural elementary school, focusing on how sociocultural factors affect how students connect to and access literature.…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Constructivism (Learning), Rural Schools, Focus Groups