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Ciechanowski, Kathryn M. – Reading Teacher, 2009
This article reports on a study of how third-grade bilingual students drew from everyday resources, particularly popular culture, in science classes and how the use of these resources shaped how they made sense of academic texts. Six months of data collection in an urban Midwestern school demonstrated that students--especially English-language…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Popular Culture, English (Second Language), Bilingual Students