Graduate Project Title
Document Type
Graduate Project
Date of Degree Completion
Summer 2006
Degree Name
Master of Education (MEd)
Department
Education
Committee Chair
Gail Goss
Second Committee Member
Andrea C. Sledge
Third Committee Member
Daniel C. Fennerty
Abstract
A toolkit has been created to assist secondary teachers in using popular culture and the media in conjunction with explicit comprehension strategy instruction in the classroom in an effort to improve struggling students' comprehension. The toolkit consists of an introduction, examples and suggestions for using popular culture and media in the classroom, examples and guidelines for strategic comprehension instruction. CutTent literature and research regarding the use of popular culture and media in the classroom and effective comprehension strategy instruction were reviewed.
Recommended Citation
Sevigny, Stephanie Marie, "Using Pop Culture and Media Together with Effective Literacy Instruction: A Teacher's Tool Kit for Selah H.S. Read Write Class" (2006). All Graduate Projects. 905.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/graduate_projects/905
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