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Readings on New Literacies

Research on instruction and assessment in the area of new literacies of online reading comprehension
By: Donald J. Leu, Julie L. Coiro, Jill Castek, Douglas K. Hartman, Laurie A. Henry, and David Reinking
Chapter to be published in: Comprehension instruction: Research-based best practices 

Assessing the new literacies  of online reading comprehension:  An informative interview with  W. Ian O’Byrne, Lisa Zawilinski,  J. Greg McVerry, and Donald J. Leu at the University of Connecticut.
By: Kouider Mokhtari, Angel Kymes, Patricia Edwards
Published in: The Reading Teacher, 62(4), pp. 354–357, 2008  

What Is New about the New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension?
By: Donald J. Leu, Lisa Zawilinski, Jill Castek, Manju Banerjee, Brian C. Housand, Yingjie Liu, and Maureen O’Neil
Chapter in: Secondary School Literacy: What Research Reveals for Classroom Practice, NCTE, 2007 

Reading comprehension on the Internet: Expanding our understanding of reading comprehension to encompass new literacies.
By: Julie L. Coiro
Published in: The Reading Teacher, 56(6), 2003  

Making Sense of Online Text. Educational Leadership
By: Julie L. Coiro
Published in: Educational Leadership, 2005  

Rethinking comprehension strategies to better prepare students for critically evaluating content on the Internet
By: Julie L. Coiro
Published in: The NERA Journal, pp. 29-34, 2003

Internet accuracy: Is information on the Web reliable?
By: Marcia Clemitt
Published in: CQ Researcher, 18(27), pp. 625-648, 2008  

Central Issues In New Literacies And New Literacies Research
Editors: Julie L. Coiro, Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear, and Donald J. Leu
Chapter in: The Handbook of Research in the New Literacies, 2008  

Toward a theory of new literacies emerging from the internet and other information and communication technologies
By: Donald J. Leu, Charles K. Kinzer, Julie L. Coiro, Dana W. Cammack
Chapter in: Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading (5th Edition), 2004 

A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures
By: The New London Group
Published in: Harvard Educational Review, 1996