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Remote Text-Supplemented Audiobook Intervention Supports Children's Explicit and Incidental Vocabulary Learning. [PDF]
Dev SciABSTRACT Vocabulary knowledge is foundational to educational success, but significant gaps exist between students with reading disabilities or those from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers. These gaps have cascading effects, as children with lower vocabulary knowledge are less likely to acquire new words through independent reading and are less ...
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The Fiction/Nonfiction Distinction: Documentary Studies and Analytic Aesthetics in Conversation
, 2021 Theories of documentary film oftentimes devote their opening pages to the distinction between fiction and documentary. In its earlier more radical instances, documentary theorists have claimed that discursivity itself i.e.
Mario Slugan, E. Terrone
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New Media Ecology and Theoretical Foundations for Nonfiction Digital Narrative Creative Practice
Narrative, 2021 :Digital storytelling techniques and persuasive communications are becoming increasingly intertwined and realized in cultural discourses such as cultural heritage, environmental activism, and politics.
N. Basaraba +3 more
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Scientific Study of Literature, 2021 Reading fiction has been associated with improved social and imaginative reasoning that could lead to improved critical thinking. This observational study investigated the relationship between fiction and nonfiction exposure, narrative transportation ...
H. Hollis
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Climate Pessimism and Human Nature
Humanities, 2022 This article builds on scholarship that understands climate change not only as a geophysical phenomenon, but also as a complex idea. It argues for a historicised analysis of what it terms “climate pessimism”: the belief that catastrophic global heating ...
David Higgins
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The Non-Fiction Picturebook: Knowing the World as an Integrated Experience
Encyclopaideia, 2022 The new non-fiction picturebook for children is conceived not just as an informational book, but first and foremost as a beautiful object, characterized by a largely visual and proudly creative approach to knowledge.
Giorgia Grilli
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Characters and Topical Diversity
Akademisk Kvarter, 2013 The purpose of this article is to contribute to our understanding of the difference between the bestseller and the non-bestseller in nonfiction. It is noticed that many bestsellers in nonfiction belongs to the sub-genre of creative nonfiction, but also ...
Rune Eriksson
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What’s your pleasure? exploring the predictors of leisure reading for fiction and nonfiction
Reading & Writing, 2020 Leisure reading is associated with several important educational and cognitive benefits, and yet fewer and fewer young adults are reading in their free time.
Sandra Martin‐Chang +4 more
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Transformative Works and Cultures, 2022 Editorial for "Fandom Histories," edited by Philipp Dominik Keidl and Abby S. Waysdorf, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 37 (March 15, 2022).
Philipp Dominik Keidl, Abby S. Waysdorf
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Textualism, extratextualism, and the fiction/nonfiction distinction in documentary studies
, 2021 This article critiques existing textualist and extratextualist (intentionalist and reception-driven) approaches to capturing the ordinary understanding of the fiction/nonfiction distinction in philosophical and film scholarship on documentary and offers ...
Mario Slugan
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