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Silent Readers, Silenced Readers: LGBT Student Perceptions of LGBT Representation in Composition Readers
… (LGBT) representation in composition readers remains limited and is frequently nonexistent (Hudson 2003). Thus, a significant minority of our composition students find themselves with little or no representation in so-called inclusive readers. In this dissertation, I present the …
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Webern's Strongest Readers
In the concluding section I note that while interpretive analysis and/or misprision are appropriately used as creative tools I warn that it is contradictory to place limits on what forms the use of these tools can or should take.
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Struggling Readers and Dyslexic Readers: A Comparative Study of Student Intervention Files
… differences between students labeled struggling readers and those labeled students with or at risk for dyslexia. The study utilized document analysis to analyze the clinical reading intervention files of 44 students, kindergarten through grade 3, from two afterschool literacy clinics, an urban, …
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The Journey of Nine Sixth Graders: From Struggling Readers to Strategic Readers
Teachers of struggling readers should consider implementing a social constructivist approach for reading instruction that includes components of equity such as, explicit strategy instruction and performance assessment in order to provide an opportunity for all students to learn. Teachers also …
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8 Readers reading: The intertextual links of able readers using multiple passages
… the intertextual links generated by 8 able readers as they read a five-passage tableau. Each reader silently read the passages and reported aloud their thoughts during a $2{1\over2}$ to 3 hour session. Three scholarly paths--cognitive psychology, semiotics, and literary theory--were used as …
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Third-grade evaluators thrive as readers
… students become evaluators of themselves as readers, what new roles do they negotiate for themselves?" I studied third grade students who became evaluators of themselves as readers, examining evaluation process. This included their own determination of their strengths, goals, assignments, and …
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Adult readers in the Soviet Union
This thesis is a study of ordinary adult readers and their reading preferences in the USSR in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. Chapter One provides background information on Soviet policies towards reading and on the changes in Soviet society which have influenced reading habits over the last 30 …
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A Critical Examination of Readers Theatre
The search for the origin of Readers Theatre usually leads to Charles Laughton, Paul Gregory and Don Juan in Hell. This production and other Laughton-Gregory collaborations clearly influenced the form Readers Theatre took between 1950 and 1970, but it raises other questions. Readers Theatre has …
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Young British readers' engagement with manga
This thesis presents young British readers’ engagement with manga regarding literary, aesthetic, social, and cultural dimensions. The study explores young readers’ points of views of their reading preference – manga. I investigated how children interpreted manga, with respect to the artistic …
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Anxiety and attention in beginning readers
… anxiety and attention in high and low anxiety readers during the reading of materials of verging difficulty levels. An A-state reading anxiety scale was developed for the purpose of identifying high end low reading anxiety participants. Response times to a secondary task were measured while …
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Enhancing memory access for less-skilled readers
… and Kintch (1995) suggested that less-skilled readers often have an impoverished representation of text. The results of five experiments demonstrated that the addition of causality enhanced the text representation of less-skilled readers. Experiments 1-3 showed that the addition of causal …
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Associative implicit learning in adult dyslexic readers
This thesis examined associative implicit learning in dyslexic young adults. Dyslexic adults' associative implicit learning has been examined from three perspectives: what, when, and how. More specifically, it has been investigated if dyslexics have deficit in learning more complex knowledge, such …
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Supporting Struggling Readers in an Inclusive Classroom
… an urgent need toward providing struggling readers with remedial skills as well as ways to access the general education curriculum. In order to help these struggling readers acquire the skills to read and continue to progress in all academic areas, teachers need to have the knowledge of …
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Rethinking Bibliotherapy: Portraits of Gifted Adult Readers
… need for discussion. Portraits of gifted adult readers (N=7) in their 30s-50s illustrate that metacognition has occurred over their lifespan regarding their reading, with only one participant actively engaging in discussion, and book selection meets the socioemotional needs of the reader. The …
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Visual Perceptual Problems in Adult Disabled Readers
… and remediation.</p> <p>Sixty adult disabled readers were tested to try to discover if their reading difficulties were caused by visual perceptual problems. These subjects were selected randomly as to sex, age and severity of reading disablement from students attending the Adult Basic …
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