Advancing from a Diary Cartoon Novel to Young Adult Fiction: Exploring Issues of Gender and Power with Girls with Reading Difficulties
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Learning disabilities are often referred to as invisible exceptionalities, with reading difficulties representing the most common form of learning disability. Girls with reading difficulties are often overshadowed by their male counterparts and as such overlooked for intervention programs. In this article, we detail our research conducting a book club intended to assist four preadolescent girls who struggle with reading to engage and critique text in context of societal issues related to gender and self-empowerment. We outline how we used recursive, higher-level question prompts and corresponding discussion-based activities to advance from reading a diary cartoon novel (Dork Diaries) to a more difficult young adult novel (The Hunger Games). Our findings present the girls’ responses to the texts and highlight the importance of holding ongoing structured conversations and engaging youth in a societal gendered critique. Learning disabilities are often referred to as invisible exceptionalities, with reading difficulties representing the most common form of learning disability. Girls with reading difficulties are often overshadowed by their male counterparts and as such overlooked for intervention programs. In this article, we detail our research conducting a book club intended to assist four preadolescent girls who struggle with reading to engage and critique text in context of societal issues related to gender and self-empowerment. We outline how we used recursive, higher-level question prompts and corresponding discussion-based activities to advance from reading a diary cartoon novel (Dork Diaries) to a more difficult young adult novel (The Hunger Games). Our findings present the girls’ responses to the texts and highlight the importance of holding ongoing structured conversations and engaging youth in a societal gendered critique.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it