TY - JOUR
T1 - Using peer collaboration to support online reading, writing, and communication
T2 - An empowerment model for Struggling readers
AU - Henry, Laurie A.
AU - Castek, Jill
AU - O'Byrne, W. Ian
AU - Zawilinski, Lisa
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This comparative case study investigated the implementation of an empowerment model for struggling readers that utilized the Internet as a context for reading, writing, and communicating in 3 different classroomcontexts. Throughstudent-centered techniques, such as flexible grouping and peer teaching, we designed Internet Reciprocal Teaching to support the development of the new literacies of online reading comprehension among elementary and middle school students. Results suggest that peer collaboration was the primary means of strategy exchange and that students who were previously perceived as struggling readers became active in coaching, leading, and sharing new strategies. In effect, peer collaboration appeared to reconceptualize struggling readers' role in the classroom and set the context for greater engagement in literacy activities and investment in learning.
AB - This comparative case study investigated the implementation of an empowerment model for struggling readers that utilized the Internet as a context for reading, writing, and communicating in 3 different classroomcontexts. Throughstudent-centered techniques, such as flexible grouping and peer teaching, we designed Internet Reciprocal Teaching to support the development of the new literacies of online reading comprehension among elementary and middle school students. Results suggest that peer collaboration was the primary means of strategy exchange and that students who were previously perceived as struggling readers became active in coaching, leading, and sharing new strategies. In effect, peer collaboration appeared to reconceptualize struggling readers' role in the classroom and set the context for greater engagement in literacy activities and investment in learning.
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U2 - 10.1080/10573569.2012.676431
DO - 10.1080/10573569.2012.676431
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84866885642
SN - 1057-3569
VL - 28
SP - 279
EP - 306
JO - Reading and Writing Quarterly
JF - Reading and Writing Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -