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Adams, Brittany; Wilson, Nance S. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2022
Examination of social annotation during assigned readings in this study brings together research about digital reading, learning communities, metacognition, and critical literacy. Social annotation allows readers to engage with text collaboratively to build understanding during reading. The authors conducted a content analysis of over 400…
Descriptors: Documentation, Metacognition, Critical Literacy, Computer Mediated Communication
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DeIaco, Robyn; Samuelson, Courtney; Grifenhagen, Jill; Davis, Dennis S.; Kosanovich, Marcia – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2022
This thematic analysis utilizes teacher insights from their experiences in an online professional development (PD) course on early reading instruction to determine course design features educators perceive as being beneficial and questions and concerns educators raised during the course. We analyzed discussion forum contributions and course…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Literacy Education, Teacher Attitudes, Invented Spelling
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Aljanahi, Mona Humaid – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2019
This article follows the development of three then-adolescent male Emirati high schoolers and their literacy journeys through their engagement in various on- and offline affinity spaces. Their stories illustrate how Emirati youth assume identities and manipulate pop culture within these spaces. Underpinned by conceptualization of affinity spaces,…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Self Concept, High School Students, Popular Culture
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Schreuder, Mary-Celeste; Savitz, Rachelle S. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2020
This article describes findings related to changes in the reading motivation of 12th grade language arts students who participated in an online book club partnership with college students. The study investigated the motivational impact of self-selected young adult novels, social interaction with college students and peers, and the online context…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Adolescent Literature, Clubs, Grade 12
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Colwell, Jamie; Hutchison, Amy C. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2018
This study explored how 26 preservice secondary content teachers perceived their experiences participating in and developing a Twitter-based professional learning network focused on disciplinary literacy. Participants completed blog reflections and anonymous online surveys to reflect on their experiences, which served as data for this study. A…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Social Media, Student Journals
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Alvermann, Donna E.; Marshall, James D.; McLean, Cheryl A.; Huddleston, Andrew P.; Joaquin, Jairus; Bishop, John – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2012
Five qualitative multiple-case studies document adolescents' uses of Web-based resources and digital literacy skills to construct their online identities. Working from a perspective that integrates new literacies with multimodality, the researchers enlisted the help of five high school students who kept daily logs of the websites they visited for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Technological Literacy, Internet, Skill Development
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Timmons, Beverly J.; Morgan, Denise N. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2011
This study describes the tutoring interactions of four early childhood preservice tutors, two able and two less able, to document the tutoring strategies they applied as they provided support for their first-grade student at point of need. The two more able tutors provided various prompts to foster their students' use of strategies, thus…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Reading Instruction, Interaction, Elementary School Teachers
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Hsu, Hui-Yin; Wang, Shiangkwei – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2011
Research studies on college reading have been emphasizing the effectiveness of instruction and the correlation of reading performance to college success. Little research has been conducted regarding college developmental readers' preferences for using digital texts to communicate. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether students'…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Web Sites, College Students, Remedial Reading
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Peterson, Shelley Stagg; Slotta, James – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2009
A literacy education professor teams up with a colleague whose specialization is technology and education to analyze students' contributions to a graduate course taught online for the first time. This article explains the modifications that the instructor made to a face-to-face course to adapt it to an online learning environment. The online…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication, Graduate Study