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Oct 16, 2016 · First, the teacher asks students to read through on their own and highlight words they don’t know. This is basic decoding work. After everyone is on the same page with the vocabulary, teachers can ask pairs of students to read a paragraph together and highlight key ideas.
- Katrina Schwartz
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Mar 1, 2024 · Middle and high school teachers can help students retain information through deep reading of digital curricula and other texts.
May 8, 2024 · Sixty-nine percent of eighth grade students are “non-proficient” readers. Uncover the causes behind this adolescent literacy crisis. Discover practical strategies to improve middle school reading through evidence-based instruction and teacher training and determine how to fund it.
- University of Florida, USA
- ABSTRACT
- Journal of Media Literacy Education
- Procedure
- Changes in expert strategies used: Pre- to posttest
- Changes in novice strategies used: Pre- to posttest
- Other notable changes: Pre- to posttest
- Recommendations and conclusions
Gillian E. Mertens University of Florida, USA Shelby M. Boehm University of Florida, USA
This paper describes the strategies 8th graders used to evaluate the credibility of unfamiliar websites after a curricular intervention. Website topics were somewhat contested, and students could navigate the open web in order to assess the credibility of the sites. Findings reveal that students were more likely to leave the presented webpages and ...
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Data collection was administered by one of the authors during the student’s ELA class period in a small office connected to the classroom. Each participant spent less than 25 minutes completing the tasks. The protocol was administered on a MacBook Air with an external mouse using the Chrome web browser (students all had school-issued Chromebooks an...
We argue the difference in total number of expert strategies used was mainly due to increases in a few specific strategies, all of which we taught during the one-day workshop (see Table 5). When confronted with an unfamiliar website, students were more likely to open a new tab and Google the name of the website during the posttest than they were in...
Though students demonstrated increased ability to use expert strategies to assess credibility, they still used several novice strategies (see Table 6), sometimes in conjunction with expert strategies. For example, upon opening a new tab (an expert strategy), students did not always search the name of the website. Instead, a few students Googled que...
Overall, the students utilized more reading strategies and strategies rooted in their previous instruction about the internet (our mnemonic/checklist theme) than any other coded thematic categories. Due to space constraints, we will discuss only the most notable changes in this article (see Table 7). A few of the pre- to posttest changes may be att...
We conclude this article with recommendations for curriculum development and for future research. First, we recommend that curriculum be developed that teaches students to recognize the types of sources encountered online, including those listed above (news organizations, government agencies, etc.). Without building this background knowledge, we be...
- Angela M. Kohnen, Gillian E. Mertens, Shelby M. Boehm
- 2020
Here are 10 free online reading programs designed specifically for middle school students: 1. Scholastic Summer Reading Program. Cost: Free. Registration Deadline: Rolling. Program Dates: April 26 - September 3, 2024. Eligibility: Open to students in grades K-8.
- Stephen Turban
Jul 1, 2020 · Although none of these strategies are fail-safe solutions against being misinformed, the aforementioned studies demonstrate that learning reliable evaluation strategies can reduce students ...
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Jun 27, 2023 · Teaching students how best to read on digital devices presents challenges. See one instructional coach’s synthesis of best practices.