Extra! Extra! Read All about It! Teacher Scaffolds Interactive Read-Alouds of a Dynamic Text.

摘要: AbstractResearch revealing the continued dominance of narrative texts in primary-grade classrooms, coupled with shifts American cultural and textual landscape, have prompted educational policy urging teachers to increase variety informational students read authenticity which use those texts. The purpose this qualitative study was investigate how one first-grade teacher scaffolded students’ meaningful engagement a nontraditional classroom text, local newspaper, through daily interactive read-alouds. Data sources including expanded field notes, transcripts naturalistic observations, interviews were analyzed inductively using methods constant comparison discourse analysis. Purposefully selected topical episodes highlighted characteristic newspapers as dynamic that privilege real-time information. Analysis identified thoughtful selection content, improvisation aimed at cr...