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Interview With Ben Mikaelsen, Stanley Steiner, James Armstrong Dec 2014

Interview With Ben Mikaelsen, Stanley Steiner, James Armstrong

James Armstrong

No abstract provided.


Locating Information In Text: A Focus On Children In The Elementary Grades, Bonnie Armbruster, James Armstrong Dec 2014

Locating Information In Text: A Focus On Children In The Elementary Grades, Bonnie Armbruster, James Armstrong

James Armstrong

This paper reviews research related to the ability of elementary school children to carry out search tasks with informational text. The review is organized within a framework of components of the search process: Goal Formation, Text Selection, Information Extraction and Integration, and Evaluation. Research suggests that older and more proficient readers are better able than younger and less proficient readers to execute search tasks successfully and spontaneously. Other factors, such as the considerateness of text and the reader′s prior knowledge of text structure and topic, also have been shown to affect children′s ability to search informational text. Finally, the article …


Interview With Louis Sachar, James Armstrong, Stanley Steiner Dec 2014

Interview With Louis Sachar, James Armstrong, Stanley Steiner

James Armstrong

No abstract provided.


Videopoetry: Evocative Representations Of Cultural Pioneers In Southern Idaho, James Armstrong, Peter Lutze, Laura Woodworth-Ney Jan 2014

Videopoetry: Evocative Representations Of Cultural Pioneers In Southern Idaho, James Armstrong, Peter Lutze, Laura Woodworth-Ney

James Armstrong

In the early 1900s, federal irrigation projects transformed the sagebrush desert of southern Idaho into arable land. This article tells the story of two Idaho cultural pioneers from that era, Clarence E. Bisbee, and Annie Pike Greenwood. The photographer Clarence E. Bisbee spent thirty years documenting the growth of the city of Twin Falls and the surrounding agricultural area. Annie Pike Greenwood, a mother, farmer’s wife, teacher and professional writer, wrote a memoir of her experiences over twenty years of living on a farm near Hazelton. To represent the experiences of Bisbee and Greenwood, the authors used the technique of …