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Jackton Otieno Midigo – Reading Teacher, 2025
This article explores learning through modes of signification in literacy activity books for early childhood learners in Kenya. These modes of signification are important for the cognitive and social development of children. Early childhood education in Kenya aims to prepare children for primary school by building foundational skills in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Grade 3, Emergent Literacy
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Erica M. Barnes; Elizabeth Burke Hadley; David K. Dickinson – Elementary School Journal, 2025
Young children draw from verbal and nonverbal input to make meaning from texts, a skill that is foundational for later reading comprehension and academic achievement. However, prior studies have focused solely on teachers' verbal input during prekindergarten read-alouds. We examine four Black, female prekindergarten teachers' multimodal enactments…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, African American Teachers
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Sabrina F. Sembiante; Alain Bengochea; Mileidis Gort – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2025
To understand how verbal, visual, and actional modalities serve dual language bilingual education instruction and learning in the preschool activity of Morning Circle (MC), we ask: (a) What is the nature of teachers' transmodal practices to facilitate MC activity? (b) How do teacher pairs orchestrate transmodal practices across MC activities?…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Bilingual Education, Preschool Education, Group Activities
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Weipeng Yang; Xinyun Hu; Ibrahim H. Yeter; Jiahong Su; Yuqin Yang; John Chi-Kin Lee – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy is a crucial part of digital literacy that all individuals should possess in today's technologically advanced world. Despite the potential benefits that AI education offers, little research has been done on how to teach AI literacy to children. Objectives: This study aimed to fill that gap by…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Digital Literacy
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McKee, Lori; Heydon, Rachel – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
Drawing from a multiple-case study of professional learning in literacy, this article presents vignettes from a Grade 1 classroom where the professional learning focused on multimodal literacy pedagogies that combined digital and print-based resources to expand children's meaning-making. Linking children's opportunities for expansive literacy…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Foreign Countries, Literacy Education
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Bourbour, Maryam – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
This study aims to investigate the ways in which a particular digital technology, the Interactive Whiteboard (IWB), mediates preschool teachers' teaching. Over five months in 2017 and early spring 2018, five preschool teachers and 22 children aged 4--6 were video observed. By identifying aspects of IWB as a mediational means, the findings of the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
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Durá, Jorge Antonio; Tejada, Jesús – Research Studies in Music Education, 2021
Ascertaining the most effective modes of presenting rhythmic information to students is extremely important in order to facilitate rhythm training. This study examines the effects of different bimodal presentations of rhythmic information on the discrimination of rhythm patterns by primary school students. A 2 × 2 factorial design was conducted…
Descriptors: Music Education, Elementary School Students, Music, Grade 2
Leslie Barger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The perceptions of Tennessee educators who successfully implemented blended learning in their classrooms were the main focus of this phenomenological study. Blended learning is a modality that uses stations which consist of a teacher-led station, an online station, and an off-line station. Teachers work in small groups with students while others…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, School Districts, Blended Learning, Teaching Methods
Counsell, Shelly L.; Hyerle, David – Teachers College Press, 2023
"What" and "how" young children are thinking are typically expressed and shared at home and school through verbal and written modes of communication. As a visual language framework conceived and developed by David Hyerle, Thinking Maps® offers an additional way for learners to represent their ideas by visually mapping their…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Cognitive Processes, Evidence Based Practice, Metacognition
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Cheng, Maurice M. W.; Danielsson, Kristina; Lin, Angel M. Y. – Learning: Research and Practice, 2020
This paper examines the roles of multimodality and thematic patterns in the teaching of the particle model of matter. Although the particle model is a fundamental topic in science education, there is no consensus on (1) whether or not the model should be introduced in early grades and (2) how to introduce the model to students for the very first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Learning Modalities, Grade 3
Donovan, Lisa; Anderberg, Sarah – Teachers College Press, 2020
"Teacher as Curator" provides a roadmap for using creative strategies to engage both educators and students in the learning process. Focusing on key qualities of culturally and linguistically responsive arts learning, chapters specifically demonstrate how arts integration strategies and formative assessment can be a catalyst for change…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education
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Decat, Eloah; Damjanovic, Victoria; Branson, Stephanie; Blank, Jolyn; Berson, Ilene – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2019
This practitioner research explores ways children engage in literacy learning through storytelling with the use of touch technology in a VPK (Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten) classroom. With access to diverse touch technology devices but no experience using these technologies, a VPK teacher explored strategies to use the resources to enhance literacy…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Story Telling, Preschool Education
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Gucciardi, Enza; Nagel, Robyn; Szwiega, Sylwia; Chow, Betty Yan Yan; Barker, Clare E.; Nezon, Janet; Bian, Helen; Butler, Alana – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2019
Objectives: To pilot whether a sensory-based food education program, "Rainbow Food Heroes," increases children's intended and actual fruit and vegetable consumption. Methods: The behavioral intervention, Rainbow Food Heroes, a sensory-based food education program, consisted of two 90-minute workshops delivered in one week, followed by a…
Descriptors: Foods Instruction, Nutrition Instruction, Kindergarten, Young Children
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Hettiarachchi, Shyamani; Ranaweera, Mahishi; Disanayake, H. M. Lalani N. – Deafness & Education International, 2021
Young deaf and hard-of-hearing children enrolling in school in Sri Lanka often display language delay due to limited amplification and limited language stimulation. The scarcity of speech and language therapy support within the educational context at present necessitates a rethink of service-delivery models to reach more children. Multi-sensory…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Story Telling, Multisensory Learning
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Chen, Deborah; Dote-Kwan, Jamie – Young Exceptional Children, 2021
Approximately 65% of young children with visual impairments have another disability such as developmental delay, cerebral palsy, or hearing loss. Furthermore, cerebral/cortical visual impairment is the most prevalent visual condition among young children with severe visual impairment in the United States (Hatton et al., 2013). This article…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Visual Impairments, Comorbidity, Access to Education
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