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Constructing Reading: Building Conceptions of Literacy in a Volunteer Read-Aloud Program
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Dawes, Erika Thulin – Language Arts, 2007
This study describes the interactions of three adult-child reading partnerships in a program that matches corporate volunteers with "at risk" students for weekly hour-long story reading sessions. Using discourse analysis within a sociocultural framework, the researcher identified variation in the way these partners were constructing the act and…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Discourse Analysis, Vocabulary Development, Story Reading