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Facts and Feelings Response Diaries: Connecting Efferently and Aesthetically with Informational Text.
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Richards, Janet C. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2003
Discusses the Facts and Feelings Response Diary strategy for assisting middle school students in inclusive settings to connect both efferently and aesthetically with informational text. Notes that this activity stimulates students to focus their attention on important facts and details and to use their prior experiences, feelings, interests,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Reading, Inclusive Schools, Journal Writing
Learning Counter-Intuitive Science Concepts: What Have We Learned from Over a Decade of Research?
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Guzzetti, Barbara J. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2000
Integrates findings from qualitative and quantitative research in conceptual change that investigated text and text-based strategies. Emphasizes findings that have direct implications for instructional research and practice: (1) refutational text is not sufficient to produce conceptual change; (2) discussion of refutational text must be…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews, Misconceptions, Reader Text Relationship