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Edyburn, Dave L. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2007
The purpose of this article is to outline four categories of issues that are fundamental to understanding the efficacy of technology for enhancing reading performance. The four categories of issues include: (1) What does it mean when we say a person is a reader or a nonreader?; (2) Instructional methods: Lessons of the achievement gap; (3)…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Functional Reading, Assistive Technology, Agenda Setting
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Purcell-Gates, Victoria; Duke, Nell K.; Martineau, Joseph A. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2007
This study explored, with both experimental and correlational designs, the roles of (a) authentic, communicatively functional reading and writing and (b) the explicit explanation of genre function and features on growth in genre-specific reading and writing abilities of children in grades two and three. The genres used for this exploration were…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 3, Science Instruction, Literacy Education