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Direct linkHall, Leigh A. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2012
In this article, I examine how 6th-grade students used pop culture texts to inform their understandings about social studies texts and shape their discussions of it. Discussions showed that students used pop culture texts in three ways when talking about social studies texts. First, students applied comprehension strategies to pop culture texts to…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Inferences, Social Studies, Textbooks
