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Koss, Melanie D.; Martinez, Miriam; Johnson, Nancy J. – Reading Teacher, 2016
We examined representations of main characters in Caldecott Award winner and honor books over the past 25 years. Each book containing a human main character was coded for the following features: culture/ethnicity, gender, age, place where character lives, time period in which the character lives, disability, religion, socioeconomic status, and…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Awards, Childrens Literature, Disproportionate Representation
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Bromley, Karen; Vandenberg, Amy; White, Jennifer – Reading Teacher, 2007
Building on the work of an earlier article ["The Word Writing CAFE: Assessing Student Writing for Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency," Dorothy J. Leal, "Reading Teacher," 59 (4) Dec 2005 (EJ738016)], these authors investigated the use of a simple assessment tool with a different audience to yield similar useful results. (Contains 3 figures and 4…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Teaching Methods, Writing Tests, Vocabulary Development