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Using Non-Fiction Conventions To Improve Expository Reading In 6* Grade History, Annie Whitlock
Using Non-Fiction Conventions To Improve Expository Reading In 6* Grade History, Annie Whitlock
Masters Theses
Students often have very little experience with textbooks before they reach the middle and upper grades. Teachers of content areas in these grades also have very little resources available to help these students. In this study, a curriculum was developed to teach specific non-fiction conventions to 6th grade students in a history classroom. The purpose of the study was to test the hypothesis that this developed curriculum would positively impact these students’ abilities to use non-fiction conventions while reading their textbook. The results of the study revealed that after being taught the developed curriculum, the students made improvements and showed …