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Webster, Jennifer A. – Ontario Action Researcher, 2004
In this action research project, undertaken in a Grade 2/3 classroom, I posed the question: How can I encourage the readers in my class to become reflective and critical thinkers as they read? My aim was to support students in becoming reflective about what they read as well as about the strategies they used while reading, and to support the…
Descriptors: Silent Reading, Action Research, Reading Strategies, Grade 3
Mothus, Trudy G.; Lapadat, Judith C.; Struthers, Lynda; Fisher, Heather; Paterson, Karin – 2002
This report discusses the effectiveness of strategy-based writing instruction for adolescents with language-based learning disabilities. The instruction is being provided to Canadian students in grade eight who are at least two grade equivalents below their peers in reading and writing ability. The students are taught a paraphrasing strategy that…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Expository Writing, Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness