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Catherine Lammert – Literacy, 2024
Incorporating climate change into literacy curriculum is an important goal globally, but one that has gone unmet in typical elementary classrooms. One reason may be a lack of preparation of teachers to select texts on this topic. This research involved preservice elementary literacy teachers in a children's literature course evaluating children's…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Climate, Literacy Education, Course Content
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Bråten, Ivar; McCrudden, Matthew T.; Stang Lund, Elisabeth; Brante, Eva W.; Strømsø, Helge I. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2018
This study investigated the effects of author expertise and content relevance on Norwegian secondary school students' (n = 190) selection, processing, and use of multiple documents. Participants were presented with documents that pertained to more or less familiar topics, and received brief instructions that highlighted the importance of source…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Authors, Secondary School Students, Control Groups
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Harouni, Houman – Harvard Educational Review, 2009
Drawing on experiences in his social studies classroom, Houman Harouni evaluates both the challenges and possibilities of helping high school students develop critical research skills. The author describes how he used Wikipedia to design classroom activities that address issues of authorship, neutrality, and reliability in information gathering.…
Descriptors: High School Students, Research Skills, Social Studies, Encyclopedias