Abstract:Why is it that some students who struggle with print literacy manage to succeed at high school while others, given the same opportunities to succeed, fail? Through weaving together and analysing the stories of four actors-a Learning Support teacher, a teacher's aide and two former students-this thesis aims to answer that question. At the start of her research the Learning Support teacher believed that the implementation of her school's explicitly taught reading and comprehension program would be the most obvio… Show more
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