CT-7200

Lupo, S. M., Strong, J. Z., Lewis, W., Walpole, S., & McKenna, M. C. (2018). Building background knowledge through reading: Rethinking text sets. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 61(4), 433.
The authors explore the qualities of text sets and make recommendations to improve the process of building background knowledge.

Beymer, P. N., Rosenberg, J. M., & Schmidt, J. A. (2020). Does choice matter or is it all about interest? An investigation using an experience sampling approach in high school science classrooms. Learning and Individual Differences, 78.
This study looks at choice and interest to determine their impact on student learning in schools.

Smith, B. R., & Parker, M. (2019). Sharing the screen: An innovation on interactive writing to scaffold children’s digital text creation. Practical Literacy, 24(3), 15.
This study looks at ways digital tools can support text creation with student in the early grades.

Glen, N., & Moukhtarian, A. (2019, July 1). Writing like a scientist: Using science notebooks to scaffold writing for first-grade students. Science and Children, 56(9), 58.
This brief article describes how a first-grade teacher scaffolded scientific writing with students.