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Björn Kindenberg – Language and Education, 2025
This study delves into the complex relationship between storytelling and historical understanding. Focused on how lower-secondary students employ narrative discourse in writing, it examines the extent to which their storytelling aids or limits historical comprehension. Drawing on systemic-functional linguistics and history education theories, the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Story Telling, History, Comprehension
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Belinda Mendelowitz – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2017
Purpose: Imagination in critical literacy research is usually referred to as a taken for granted concept that is seldom theorised, leaving the assumptions unchecked that everyone has a shared understanding of imagination. This paper aims to challenge critical literacy researchers to rethink the relationship between criticality and imagination and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Imagination, Critical Theory, Data
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Wood, Marianna D.; Wood, Jessa M. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2018
Students in upper-level courses are expected to observe disciplinary conventions in writing assignments. Common recommendations for teaching conventions require substantial time for instructor feedback and in-class instruction. As an alternative, we tested the effectiveness of a checklist in improving students' performance of these conventions.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Writing Achievement, Writing Skills, Writing Strategies
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Monte-Sano, Chauncey; De La Paz, Susan; Felton, Mark; Piantedosi, Kelly Worland; Yee, Laura S.; Carey, Roderick L. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2017
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) emphasize disciplinary literacy by making literacy instruction every teacher's responsibility (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010). The CCSS require content area teachers to adapt curriculum and pedagogy to support disciplinary literacy…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, History Instruction, Best Practices, Common Core State Standards