|
|
|
Talking to an Author: Readers Taking Charge of the Reading Process by Margaret G. McKeown & Isabel L. Beck — 1998In prior work in the intermediate grades, we had repeatedly seen
students experiencing difficulty in understanding their textbooks and
blaming themselves for not understanding the material. Our observations
came from a series of studies, conducted in fifth to eighth grades,
in which we probed students' interactions with textbook passages and
interviewed students to trace their understandings of social studies
topics they had studied in school, chiefly through reading textbooks.To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below: | This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol 97, No. 2. |
|
|
|
- Margaret McKeown
University of Pittsburgh
E-mail Author
MARGARET G. MCKEOWN is a Research Scientist at the Learning Research and Development
Center at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Isabel Beck
University of Pittsburgh
E-mail Author
ISABEL L. BECK is a Senior Scientist at
the same Center. She is also Professor of Education at the University of Pittsburgh.
|
|
|
|
|
Email this article
Print this article
Post a Comment
