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Struggling High School Readers' Responses To A Literature-Rich Curriculum, Fran Harrison Stephens
Struggling High School Readers' Responses To A Literature-Rich Curriculum, Fran Harrison Stephens
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The purpose of this study was to determine how struggling readers in 11th grade Applied Communications classes responded to literary texts that are typically taught to college-prep students. Differentiation of literature for college-prep and techprep students began in the early twentieth century; since then, noncollege-bound students have traditionally studied literary texts that have been rewritten on a lower reading level to accommodate struggling readers in these classes. In this research project, I taught 11th grade Applied Communications students the same literature that college-prep students read; using a qualitative research design, I analyzed the impact of this literature on these students. …