Donald Leu

During the twenty-first century, the internet has become a major force in transmitting information and has, hence, become an important learning environment, especially for reading comprehension. However, the reading comprehension skills that the internet requires are not necessarily the same as are required by more traditional, printed texts, and the American school system is not yet in a position to effectively teach these skill. Part of the reason for this is that we lack valid, reliable, ...

In this project, the researchers developed a research-based adaptation of reciprocal teaching to support poor, minority adolescent youth in acquiring reading comprehension skills. In the early 2000s, the Internet was becoming an increasingly important source of information for students and researchers noted that it may pose new challenges for students because reading information on the Internet demands new, higher-level comprehension skills. At the same time, the Internet was seen as having ...