... design and test a practical classroom intervention technique, in order to promote reading comprehension of one particular type of prose narrative, the fable, by building background knowledge using American Sign Language summaries. The instructional technique had four steps. First, the teacher summarized a three-page fable and signed it to the students in American Sign Language (ASL). Second, the student read ... text, while less proficient readers have difficulty relating new information to background knowledge or forming hypotheses about the meaning of text before reading (Strassman, 19...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... A prominent intellectual in New York literary circles beginning in the 1920's, Burke was a poet, essayist, reviewer, novelist, translator, social commentator, and writer of short stories. His ever-fertile writings, collected in more than fifteen books, have made his name a byword in literary theory, history, economics, linguistics, dramaturgy, ... August 8 1908 is the earliest of nearly 1,100 notes and letters by Burkes himself. Also of interest are the tiny spider like summaries in margins or on in margins or on the versos of letters, where he used to work out his replies. Rare books a...

• Word Count: 1926
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate