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Gee (1989) equated literacy with the ability to participate in social situations or discourses. Although much of Gee’s later work in discourses emphasized issues in addition to participation (e.g., identity), we find his earlier formulation of literacy to be useful for this study. Gee noted two different types of literacies or discourses: “primary discourses,” which […]

Texas. Both sections were heterogeneously mixed groups, each containing three special education students and overall representing a range of reading abilities. All participants had the same teacher for reading. Twenty-three students in one section self-selected the words while 21 students in the other section continued with the regular vocabulary program. Students who self-selected words engaged […]

Researchers have argued that writing is thinking (Dean, 2006), yet members of the LLT reported that students at Western did very little writing. For much of the conversation about writing, the LLT focused on the role of the English teachers. The two English teachers on the committee pushed back, saying that writing had to be […]

In reading Sofia’s work, I think about the tensions between making a plan and living the plan. On the early September morning when Mr. Krantzman gives Sofia the Cage text, he does not know if it will resonate with her. It may well be a text she sets back on the shelf unviewed or one […]

In reading Sofia’s work, I think about the tensions between making a plan and living the plan. On the early September morning when Mr. Krantzman gives Sofia the Cage text, he does not know if it will resonate with her. It may well be a text she sets back on the shelf unviewed or one […]