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Direct linkNicholson, Tom; Dymock, Sue – NZCER Press, 2010
Would you like your students to be excited when they read a new word and keen to work out its meaning straight away? This book will turn them into word detectives, ready to tackle any new word they come across. And when writing, would you like them to make sentences that have interesting and descriptive words like "shamble," "ravenous" or…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Reading Skills, Figurative Language, Reading Instruction
Contextual Shifting: Teachers Emphasizing Students' Academic Identity to Promote Scientific Literacy
Peer reviewedReveles, John M.; Brown, Bryan A. – Science Education, 2008
This research presents a case study of two teachers' emphasis on students' academic identity as a means of facilitating their science literacy development. These cases support a theoretical position that deconstructs the notion of normative science literacy into its constitutive components: (a) being scientific and (b) appropriating its literate…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Figurative Language, Scientific Literacy, Classrooms
