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Article: Teaching narrative literacy with Toolbook Short Story. (innovative program developed by Charles May of California State Univ, Long Beach, CA helps students comprehend literature) (Special Zenith Data Systems supplement)
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- T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education)
- Article date:
- January 1, 1992
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The use of computers in college English classrooms has largely involved teaching writing with word processing programs. Few applications have addressed the other skill that English faculty must teach--how to read and interpret literature. There is some software (mainly for the elementary school level) that teaches students sensitivity to context and tests their comprehension of details, but these are of little help to teachers concerned with imparting the higher cognitive skills of narrative literacy.
To fill this gap, I created an application called ToolBook Short Story, which helps students grasp the rhetorical patterns underlying literary narratives. Taking ...
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