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Peterson, Shelley Stagg; Portier, Christine – Reading Horizons, 2014
This paper examined grades 5 and 6 students' participation in wikis while writing reports on social studies topics. An analysis of eight wikis showed that students represented meanings they had constructed about their topics by engaging in knowledge telling practices (e.g., introducing, stating, or repeating information or an idea and developing…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Reading, Reading Instruction
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Celani, Kristen; McIntyre, Ellen; Rightmyer, Elizabeth C. – Reading Horizons, 2006
The purpose of this article is to describe an action research study on the discourse patterns that seemed to best promote "developed" discussions of literature with fifth-grade struggling readers in an urban school. Developed discussions are those in which a substantial topic is maintained and the teacher-student talk included interpretations of…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Prior Learning, Urban Schools, Action Research