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Danielle Rylak; Lindsey Moses; Carolina Torrejón Capurro; Frank Serafini – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2024
There is a need to better understand the agentic choices that students make to communicate meaning through their multimodal compositions. Utilizing a case study approach, this article examines the composing of two first-grade students and discusses how these students utilized multimodal composing techniques from structured writing units during an…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Case Studies, Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies
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Asher, Asha; Nichols, Joy D. – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2016
The article uses a case study to illustrate transdisciplinary perspectives on facilitating emergent literacy skills of Elsa, a primary grade student with autism. The study demonstrates how a professional learning community implemented motor, sensory, and speech/language components to generate a classroom model supporting emergent literacy skills.…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Occupational Therapy, Case Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Joutsenlahti, Jorma; Kulju, Pirjo – Education Sciences, 2017
The purpose of this study is to present a multimodal languaging model for mathematics education. The model consists of mathematical symbolic language, a pictorial language, and a natural language. By applying this model, the objective was to study how 4th grade pupils (N = 21) understand the concept of division. The data was collected over six…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Arithmetic, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students
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Rumney, Peter; Buttress, Joy; Kuksa, Iryna – SAGE Open, 2016
As political agendas change, the teaching of writing continues to evolve, encompassing different writing practices in an attempt to address the perceived needs for literacy in our society. This article presents the Write Here project, which aims to boost children's social development and literacy attainment through engagement with visual art,…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Creative Writing, Visual Arts, Literacy
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Pantaleo, Sylvia – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2016
One of the purposes of the classroom-based research featured in this article was to explore how the ongoing development of young children's understanding of elements of visual art and design would affect their comprehension, interpretation and analysis of the artwork in a selection of picturebooks. Social semiotics, multimodality, sociocultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Elementary School Students, Primary Education
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Shanahan, Lynn E.; Flury-Kashmanian, Caroline – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2014
Research and pedagogical information provided to teachers on implementing explicit strategy instruction has primarily focused on teachers' speech, with limited attention to other modes of communication, such as gesture and artefacts. This interpretive case study investigates two teachers' use of different semiotic resources when introducing…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Elementary School Students
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Shanahan, Lynn E.; Roof, Lisa M. – Literacy, 2013
Research on implementing reading strategy instruction has primarily focused on teachers' verbal communication with limited attention to other semiotic resources such as gesture and artefacts. In this paper, we construct a "telling case" on the basis of how one primary teacher from the United States used speech, gesture and artefacts…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Nonverbal Communication
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Cremin, Teresa; Baker, Sally – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
In the light of international interest in teachers' literate identities and practices, this paper addresses the under-researched area of teachers' writing identities. It examines the multimodal interactive discursive practices at play in the writing classroom of a teacher in the UK who, in order to support the pupils, consciously positions herself…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction, Self Concept
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Thomas, Angela – Learning, Media and Technology, 2012
This paper draws from research conducted as part of an Australian Research Council funded Linkage Project "Teaching effective 3D authoring in the middle years: multimedia grammatical design and multimedia authoring pedagogy", which is a collaboration between the University of New England, the University of Tasmania and the Australian…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Semiotics, Linguistic Theory, Case Studies
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Maher, Damian – Learning, Media and Technology, 2011
The purpose of the study reported on here was to explore ways in which the interactive whiteboard (IWB) can support students' understanding of texts. A Year 3 and a Year 4 primary school class in New South Wales, Australia, is the focus of the research. A qualitative case study was carried out using multimodal analysis focusing on the use of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Needs, Teaching Methods, Suburban Schools
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Russell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2015
The "International Society for the Social Studies (ISSS) Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. The following papers are included in the 2015 proceedings: (1) Local History and Local Culture at the Core of Elementary Social Studies Curriculum (C.…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Social Studies, Elementary Education, Local History
James, Nancy Ellen – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate the ways second grade children signaled the meanings they made from pictures and print and to identify ways they signaled new meanings when transmediations between these two semiotic systems took place. The study was a mixed methods study using qualitative methods in a case study format for the first…
Descriptors: African American Students, Standardized Tests, Rhetoric, Video Technology
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Rowsell, Jennifer; Pahl, Kate – Reading Research Quarterly, 2007
The commentary argues for an understanding of how texts are put together that accounts for multimodality and draws on children's ways of being and doing in the home, their "habitus". It focuses on identities as socially situated. It argues that it is important to trace the process of sedimenting identities during text production. This offers a way…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Learning Modalities, Intermode Differences, Case Studies
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Siegel, Marjorie; Kontovourki, Stavroula; Schmier, Stephanie; Enriquez, Grace – Language Arts, 2008
This article presents a case study of a kindergarten girl from a Bangladeshi immigrant family who demonstrates her multiliteracies as she negotiates the multiple demands of the mandated literacy curriculum. The case is drawn from a year-long ethnographic inquiry of the literacy practices and cultural models in a balanced literacy curriculum where…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Monolingualism, Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education
Dunn, Rita; Blake, Brett Elizabeth – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2008
This book provides educators, parents and caretakers with a variety of instructional strategies for engaging K-8 students. These approaches are designed to enable all students to read easily and enjoyably by utilizing different styles and approaches. The techniques are not generally found in conventional classrooms, but are specifically targeted…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Young Children, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction
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