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Rowe, Lindsey Wells – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Emergent bilingual students in the U.S. often attend English-medium schools where their bilingual language resources are ignored and dismissed. Research suggests this is harmful for students, but little empirical work has examined how teachers in English-dominant schools can support students' biliteracy. To address this problem, this qualitative…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes
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Hawkins, Lisa K. – Reading Horizons, 2019
A common practice in today's primary-grade classrooms, teacher-student writing conferences are considered a vital component of instruction by accomplished writing teachers and advocates of process writing. Moreover, what teachers say and how they say it shapes those opportunities for student learning that are possible in classrooms. As such,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Elementary School Teachers
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Finkelstein, Carla – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2019
Literacy coaching has become a prevalent model of professional development (PD) that embodies the characteristics of high-quality teacher learning. At the same time, many literacy coaches have experienced the practice as fraught with tensions, both for coaches and teachers. This paper focuses on the relational dynamics in literacy coaching,…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Coaching (Performance), Discourse Analysis, Instructional Improvement
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Myers, Casey Y.; Kroeger, Janice – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2011
Using Mikhail Bakhtin's conceptions of dialogue, monologue, and chronotope, the authors ask readers to consider how different values and actions ultimately create the teaching and learning spaces in which children are recognized as literate. Using qualitative data that focus on the relational writing practices of two preschoolers, this…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Educational Facilities Design, Preschool Education, Young Children
Foley, Leslie M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
As digital media practices become readily available in today's classrooms, literacy and literacy instruction are changing in profound ways (Alvermann, 2010). Professional organizations emphasize the importance of integrating new literacies (New London Group, 1996) practices into language-arts instruction (IRA, 2009; NCTE, 2005). As a result,…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Grade 1, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
Hoffman, James V., Ed.; Schallert, Diane L., Ed.; Fairbanks, Colleen M., Ed.; Worthy, Jo, Ed.; Maloch, Beth, Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2006
Close to 1,100 people attended the 55th Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami, Florida from November 30-December 3, 2005. A record number of proposals were submitted this year (548), with 392 papers, symposia, and round tables accepted. This year's conference theme was inclusiveness and synthesis…
Descriptors: Research Design, Research Methodology, Reading Research, Synthesis