Although most often associated with printed text, providing students the opportunity to engage in... more Although most often associated with printed text, providing students the opportunity to engage in close reading with multimodal text is important for 21st Century learners. This article shares three online platforms to expand the close reading experience from traditional-based practices to multimodal practices which include ActivelyLearnTM to enrich digital texts, EdpuzzleTM to guide video interaction, and ThinglinkTM to examine collections of images. An overview and sample close reading lesson is provided for each online platform.
This quantitative study was developed to explore the ability to impact elementary student 21st Ce... more This quantitative study was developed to explore the ability to impact elementary student 21st Century online research skills with a planned classroom intervention curriculum. The repeated measures quasi-experimental study randomly assigned all 5th grade classes in a Midwestern, suburban school (n=418) to a 12-week intervention or control condition. Analyses of the ORCA Elementary-Revised performance prior to intervention revealed significant correlations with traditional measures of reading achievement as well as limited influence from demographic variables. In the primary research question, results demonstrated that the intervention group showed significantly higher gains from pretest to posttest on the measure of online research skills. Focused analyses of the subskills in the online reading performance measure revealed these differences were durable in locating and synthesizing skills, but not critical evaluation of websites. We discuss both theoretical and instructional implications generated from this study.
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This article shares three online platforms to expand the close reading experience from traditional-based practices to multimodal practices which include ActivelyLearnTM to enrich digital texts, EdpuzzleTM to guide video interaction, and ThinglinkTM to examine collections of images. An overview and sample close reading lesson is provided for each online platform.