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Building the Foundation for Close Reading with Developing Readers
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Baker, Sheila F.; McEnery, Lillian – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2017
Close Reading utilizes several strategies to help readers think more critically about a text. Close reading can be performed within the context of shared readings, read-alouds by the teacher, literature discussion groups, and guided reading groups. Students attempting to more closely read difficult texts may benefit from technologies and platforms…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Strategies, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
The Shape of Direct Quotation
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Weber, Rose-Marie – Reading Teacher, 2008
Direct quotation can be a source of meaning in storybook texts for beginning readers. The author of this article sketches the linguistic complexity of direct quotation and offers instructional strategies. Three aspects of direct quotation are examined: the cluster of print features and syntactic characteristics that direct quotation involves, the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Oral Reading, Semantics, Text Structure
"O" Is for "Mouse": First Encounters with the Alphabet Book.
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Smolkin, Laura B.; Yaden, David B., Jr. – Language Arts, 1992
Examines the responses of preschoolers to a number of print design features in various genres of alphabet picture books. Discusses the authors' personal stance on the language learning and language teaching that occurs during these encounters with alphabet books. Ponders the published criteria presented by children's literature experts for…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Parent Student Relationship, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Picture Books
From Oral to Written Language: Preschool Children Dictating Stories.
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Pontecorvo, Clotilde; Zucchermaglio, Cristina – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1989
Examines beginning readers' story dictation processes and products over a 16-month period. Investigates level of story structure, conventional expressions, internal responses, spatial-temporal setting, verb tenses, variety of tenses, connectives, anaphora, and dictation process adapting to a scribe. Finds overall development in ability to…
Descriptors: Dictation, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries
Children's Responses to Line Spacing in Early Reading Books or "Holes to Tell Which Line You're On"
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Reynolds, Linda; Walker, Sue; Duncan, Alison – Visible Language, 2006
This paper describes a study designed to find out whether children's reading would be affected by line spacing that is wider or narrower than the commonly used default values. The realistic, high quality test material was set using a range of four different line spacing values, and twenty-four children in Years 1 and 2 (between five and seven…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Miscue Analysis, Layout (Publications), Large Type Materials
51st Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (San Antonio, Texas, December 5-8, 2001)
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Schallert, Diane L., Ed.; Fairbanks, Colleen M., Ed.; Worthy, Jo, Ed.; Maloch, Beth, Ed.; Hoffman, James V., Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2002
This volume presents the 51st Yearbook of the National Reading Conference. Included in this volume are 28 research reports, six invited and award-winning addresses, and a conference summary by Deborah Dillion. Readers will find quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods studies throughout the volume about topics ranging from early literacy…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Core Curriculum, Reading Research, Yearbooks