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- Title
Going beyond the Fab Five: Helping students cope with the unique linguistic challenges of expository reading in intermediate grades.
- Authors
Zhihui Fang
- Abstract
The article focuses on reading instruction in elementary school. It explains that it is difficult for students to make the transition from reading storybooks to reading informational, nonfiction texts. The book "Arthur's TV Trouble" by Marc Brown is used as an example of a storybook and a science textbook is used for the expository text. The linguistic knowledge needed to understand each text is explored and the abstract language used in the science text is examined. The content density of the texts is analyzed and ways for teachers to help students understand expository texts are presented.
- Subjects
READING (Elementary); READING exercises; STUDY &; teaching of reading comprehension; READING readiness; DEVELOPMENTAL reading; READING (Elementary) -- Language experience approach
- Publication
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2008, Vol 51, Issue 6, p476
- ISSN
1081-3004
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1598/JAAL.51.6.4