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Book SynopsisTeaching Narratives and Reading Comprehension to African American and other Ethnic Minority Students
Trade ReviewThe book does serve a noble purpose—it stimulates motivation to solve a persistent problem in the development of reading ability of an important population. * Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy *
"The book does serve a noble purpose—it stimulates motivation to solve a persistent problem in the development of reading ability of an important population." * Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy *
Table of Contentschapter 1 Foreword chapter 2 Preface chapter 3 Acknowledgments chapter 4 Introduction chapter 5 Conceptual Framework and Literature Review chapter 6 The Research Site: Community, Classroom, Students chapter 7 Culture-Based Classroom Discipline and Organization chapter 8 Structural Analysis of the Six Study Narratives chapter 9 Research Design and Methods chapter 10 Quantitative Results: An Overview chapter 11 Narrative Genre and Literal Meaning Questions chapter 12 Interpretive Reading and Critical Evaluation Questions chapter 13 Effect of Story Length in Higher Order Questions chapter 14 Creative Reading Questions chapter 15 Creative Reading Questions, and Effect of Ethnicity and Gender chapter 16 Summary, Implications, and Conclusions chapter 17 Appendix A: Stories and Comprehension Questions chapter 18 Appendix B: Teacher Interview Protocol chapter 19 Notes chapter 20 References chapter 21 Index chapter 22 About the Author
