Disciplinary Reading, Action, and Social Change.

In their Four Resources Model, Freebody and Luke (1990) described four roles that readers take as they engage with texts: the code breaker, meaning maker, text user/analyst, and text critic. In this article, we propose the addition of a fifth role, the text actor. In this role, readers engage with t...

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Published in:Reading Teacher Vol. 76; no. 6; pp. 740 - 747
Main Authors: Cervetti, Gina N., Pearson, P. David
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell May/Jun2023
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