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Peer reviewedHamel, Frederick L.; Smith, Michael W. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1998
Presents a model of instruction to illustrate that helping students understand a text need not be at odds with engaging them in student-oriented transactions. Analyzes effects of giving lower-track students direct instruction in how experienced readers evaluate reliability of literary characters by examining the writing and discussions that the…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Characterization, English Instruction, High Schools
