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Building On Strengths: Empowering Struggling High School Readers Using Key Strategies, Jennifer Druggan
Building On Strengths: Empowering Struggling High School Readers Using Key Strategies, Jennifer Druggan
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The curriculum presented is for struggling high school readers so that they can use mastery experiences with two high yield reading strategies – self-questioning and summarizing – to improve their reading comprehension, which will build self-efficacy and help them to develop a growth mindset. The question that drove this research is what is the best way to meet the academic needs of a diverse student population in a remedial reading class in a way that helps them to build their literacy toolbox and develop a respect for and maybe even a love of lifelong learning? The curriculum is built upon …