Annemarie Palincsar

This study will develop, test, and refine a set of five professional development modules called Exploring Language and Meaning in Text, intended to support reading comprehension and writing development for English language learners (ELLs). The modules will be informed by systemic functional linguistics, a theory of language that links form and meaning, and will be designed to prepare teachers to develop activities that help their students focus on an author's language choices and what they m...

There is a significant knowledge base that the reading community has developed regarding what successful students know about reading, what instructional opportunities are necessary to support the development of successful readers, and what teachers need to know in order to teach reading. However, there is a much less well-established knowledge base informing efforts to translate knowledge about reading into knowledge designed for use by teacher-educators. Furthermore, the preponderance of re...

In this project, this research team proposed to develop a computer-based instructional approach to support struggling readers and accelerate their development of reading comprehension, especially for informational text. In addition, the researchers wanted to determine how the genre of the text (narrative vs. science), the way in which the text was presented (multi-media website vs. digital text only), and how varied computer-based supports affected text comprehension by both strugg...