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The aim of this interview study is to explore how skilled readers use their homes as their reading space, while paying attention to what ‘home’ refers to, what they read there, the ‘where’ and ‘when’ aspects of reading at home, and home reading rituals. We conducted semistructured in‐depth interviews with ten university students (four from Croatia and six from Slovenia). Based on what the students...
The long‐standing research to practice gap and increased interest in scientific literacy instruction has contributed to the oversimplification of what is deemed as foundational skills in US early literacy classrooms. Invoking a homing pigeon metaphor, this article describes the distilling of decades of reading research into a message being received by literacy practitioners, policymakers and families...
Research exploring the literacy practices of diverse participants is integral to developing our understanding of literacy. Diverse groups of participants, for example participants with mental health conditions, bring specific ethical considerations and methodological challenges. This paper presents the use of Skype to research literacy practices through qualitative interviews as a solution to such...
Voice is a key component of interpersonal meaning that denotes a writer's value judgement or personal feelings. An important aspect of voice in informational writing is epistemic stance, which indicates a writer's judgement of the information presented. This exploratory study examined adolescents' use of hedges and boosters to convey epistemic stance in their informational writing. Ninety‐three seventh‐grade...
This study highlights the potential of play to support young children's mark‐making and writing and, in turn, shows how writing can become a driver of play. By detailing elements of this symbiotic relationship, the intention was for teachers as practitioner–researchers to deepen their professional knowledge of how best to support young children in meaningful writing activity, thereby countering policy‐led...
Digital storytelling is the process of telling stories in a multimedia platform while foregrounding meaning making, collaboration and the amplification of marginalised narratives. Grounded in a theory of “turn‐around pedagogies,” this research article aims to expand discussions of digital storytelling to include providing opportunities for primary students labelled “struggling readers” to tell their...
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