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Keyword - Text-based Discussion

Text-based discussion
Student interaction around a variety of texts
Research Summaries

Alvermann, D.E., Young, J.P., Green, C., & Wisenbaker, J.M. (1999). Adolescents' perceptions and negotiations of literacy practices in after-school read and talk clubs. American Educational Research Journal, 36, 221-264.

Alvermann, D., Young, J., Weaver, D., Hinchman, K., Moore, D., Phelps, S., Thras, E., Zalewski, P. (1996). Middle and high school students’ perceptions of how they experience text-based discussions: A multicase study. Reading Research Quarterly, 31, 244-267.

Chinn, C., & Anderson, R. (1998). The structure of discussions that promote reasoning. Teachers College Record, 100, 315-368.

Hicks, D. (2004). Back to Oz? Rethinking the literary in a critical study of reading. Research in the Teaching of English, 39, 63-84.

Hynd, C. R. (1999). Teaching students to think critically using multiple texts in history. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 42, 428-436.

Kucan, L., & Beck, I. L. (2003). Inviting students to talk about expository texts: A comparison of two discourse environments and their effects on comprehension. Reading Research and Instruction, 42, 1-29.

Paterson, P.O. (2000). The role of text in peer-led literature circles in the secondary classroom. In T. Shanahan & F.V. Rodriguez-Brown (Eds.), Forty-ninth yearbook of the National Reading Conference (pp. 235-251). Chicago: National Reading Conference.

Rogers, T. (1991). Students as literacy critics: The interpretive experiences, beliefs, and processes of ninth-grade students. Journal of Reading Behavior, 23, 391-423.

Vyas, S. (2004). Exploring bicultural identities in Asian high school students through the analytic window of a literature club. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 48, 12-23.