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What is Enhanced Text?
Think
of the modern textbook. A chapter on a historical period might include:
- a
timeline,
- a
photograph,
- a
reproduction of art featuring an important historical
figure,
- a
graphic of a historical document, and
- questions
for reflection.
A
related reader's guide for English learners might include
- definitions
of difficult words,
- cultural
context, and
- explanations
of idioms.
Put all
these types of resources into an electronic document or
website, and you have the textbook of the future. Today we can find an
increasing number of sources with
- Added
information, questions, links, graphics, or videos to
enhance comprehension
- Audio
versions, in a variety of formats, that can accompany
text.
Visit Tom
Snyder's site to view two animated clips. The first shows the
features of
Thinking Reader software,an enhanced text product, which teaches the
use of 7 research-based reading comprehension strategies using core
literature. The second clip discusses research on enhanced text which
showed that students could implement the strategies learned from
computer-based reading to other reading.
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