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Fenty, Nicole S.; Pierce, Abby; Schildwachter, Julia – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
There has been an increased emphasis in recent years on supporting young children with building 21st century literacy skills such as critical thinking and collaboration. Unfortunately, young children with or at risk for disabilities are unlikely to receive access to experiences that build 21st century literacies. Pre-coding activities, which…
Descriptors: Programming, Literacy, Integrated Activities, Early Childhood Education
McCarthy, JoEllen – Stenhouse Publishers, 2020
"Layers of Learning" explores read-aloud strategies designed to enhance your reading and writing standards by capitalizing on the way literature can impact caring communities. With over 200 picture-book suggestions, author JoEllen McCarthy introduces the Heartprint Framework, which demonstrates how you can layer literacy and life lessons…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Literacy Education, Caring, Teaching Methods
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Arrington, Nancy McBride – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
The sense of efficaciousness for engaging diverse learners was examined with twenty-four pre-service teachers concurrently enrolled in a junior-level Creative Arts methods course and a field experience course with placements in K-2 general education classrooms. The pre-service teachers participated in music and literacy activities in their…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy, Minority Group Students, Learner Engagement
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Ya-Fang Cheng; Joshua Shulz – ORTESOL Journal, 2025
Early childhood is a critical time for oral language development. Reading aloud is one of the most common instructional activities aimed at fostering oral language skills. It plays a vital role in supporting multilingual or emergent bilingual learners' oral language learning development. Through this article, the authors wish to inform teachers of…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Akemoglu, Yusuf; Meadan, Hedda; Towson, Jacqueline – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2020
Shared interactive book reading (SIBR) is a broad term used to describe the act of adults reading aloud to children, while encouraging interaction by asking questions and engaging in a discussion about the book. SIBR can be used to embed naturalistic communication teaching strategies, creating learning opportunities to promote a child's language…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Teaching Methods, Reading Aloud to Others, Preschool Children
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Lohmann, Marla J.; Hovey, Katrina A.; Gauvreau, Ariane N. – Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities, 2023
Science instruction is a critical aspect of early learning. Teachers can support young children's learning about scientific concepts through the use of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework, which is a proactive approach to instructional planning that helps ensure success for all learners. This teaching techniques article offers…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Access to Education, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
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Miller, Bridget; Martin, Christie; Ford, Diane – Science and Children, 2021
This article explores how Ms. Ford, a first-grade teacher, integrated literary tools to engage students in higher-level thinking and meaning making. Through the use of teacher talk, eliciting responses, asking for clarity, and expanding on student responses, she utilized discourse to support students in making meaning. Ms. Ford's first-grade…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
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Enriquez, Grace; Clark, Summer R.; Della Calce, Jessica – Reading Teacher, 2017
This article describes a kindergarten teacher's incorporation of children's literature for dynamic learning frame, growth mind-set, and social justice development into her classroom literacy instruction. The authors first compare a dynamic learning frame with a growth mind-set, explaining their use of the former because of its consideration for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Childrens Literature, Kindergarten, Social Justice
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Pergams, Oliver R. W.; Jake-Matthews, Charmaine E.; Mohanty, Liza M. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2018
Reading aloud (RA) is a learning strategy commonly used to help younger students develop language comprehension skills and in adult literacy and language courses to help students master the pronunciation of words, grammar, and intonation. However, we know of no studies to date that investigate the possible benefits of RA at the college or…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Reading Aloud to Others, Learning Experience, College Science
Breit-Smith, Allison; Busch, Jamie D.; Dinnesen, Megan Schneider; Guo, Ying – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2017
Expository, or informational, text can be defined as a type of nonfiction that describes a topic categorically by moving from subtopic to subtopic with the intent to teach content or convey information (Maloch & Bomer, 2013). One vehicle for teaching the text structure and language of expository text to preschool-age children is through…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Preschool Education, Special Education, Reading Strategies
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Breit-Smith, Allison; Busch, Jamie D.; Dinnesen, Megan Schneider; Guo, Ying – Grantee Submission, 2017
Expository, or informational, text can be defined as a type of nonfiction that describes a topic categorically by moving from subtopic to subtopic with the intent to teach content or convey information (Maloch & Bomer, 2013). One vehicle for teaching the text structure and language of expository text to preschool-age children is through…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Preschool Education, Special Education, Reading Strategies
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Kosanovich, Marcia; Lee, Laurie; Foorman, Barbara – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2021
This is a companion to the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guide, "Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade" (ED566956). This guide is organized according to the four recommendations and how-to steps from the WWC practice guide. The activities follow the typical developmental…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Family Involvement
Hall, Joan Kelly, Ed.; Looney, Stephen Daniel, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2019
The chapters in this volume build on a growing body of ethnomethodological conversation analytic research on teaching in order to enhance our empirical understandings of teaching as embodied, contingent and jointly achieved with students in the complex management of various courses of action and larger instructional projects. Together, the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers, Reading Aloud to Others
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Wright, Tanya S. – Reading Teacher, 2014
Content vocabulary is essential for children's comprehension of informational text. Teachers will need to support children in developing the technical or specialized words they need for informational text and in linking these words to key concepts in content area instruction. This article describes the vocabulary instruction that was observed…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Vocabulary Skills, Text Structure, Program Descriptions
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Zoski, Jennifer; Erickson, Karen – Reading Teacher, 2017
The teaching approach described in this article was originally designed for kindergarten students who are at risk for reading disorders. In a 30-minute session, students practiced attending to and identifying the spelling patterns, pronunciations, and meanings of common morphological suffixes through listening activities, interactive book reading,…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Reading Instruction, Kindergarten, Reading Difficulties
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