Image credit: dalbera via flickr (CC BY 2.0) In Texas we have a new state test called the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) and some schools like mine, were surprised by the ...

Little is known about the neural correlates of expository text comprehension. In this study, we sought to identify neural networks underlying expository text comprehension, how those networks change ...

For Matthew Pavesich, writing isn't something you learn how to do once and then you're done. Writing is something you learn, and then you learn some more, and then you learn even more, throughout your ...

School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China Introduction: Genres, having distinct communicative functions, elicit different levels of reasoning demands in writing tasks ...

Whether it’s sketching in a personal diary or texting a friend, writing a research paper or sharing a tasty family recipe, there’s a particular function behind each and every piece of writing we ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A zoo outreach program led to placing animals in classrooms where those animals became foci for numerous learning activities such as writing, ...