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Wissman, Kelly; Costello, Sean; Hamilton, Diane – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2012
This article explores the experiences and literacy practices of an adolescent boy enrolled in an academic support class, in which students received an open-ended invitation to respond to S.E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders" with the software programme Comic Life. In constructing this "telling case", we highlight how traditional…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Males, Literacy Education, Novels
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Brown, Tammy B. H. – Reading Teacher, 2010
Two successful and two struggling beginning readers were studied with the goal of understanding how beginning readers of varying ability levels make sense of instruction in learning to read. Through interviews, classroom observations, and the collection of artifacts from home and school, the author explored meanings constructed by the students…
Descriptors: Scripts, Literacy, Ability, Beginning Reading
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Brouillette, Liane – Arts Education Policy Review, 2010
Although there is widespread recognition that arts experiences enhance children's social-emotional development, the mechanisms through which this process takes place are little understood. This article provides insight into the role of the arts in development, through a review of recent research on child development and interviews with inner-city…
Descriptors: Scripts, Child Caregivers, Emotional Development, Child Development
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Alter, Peter; Brown, E. Todd; Pyle, Jeffrey – Education and Treatment of Children, 2011
It is a persistent challenge to meet the academic needs of students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) particularly in the area of math word problems. This study used a multiple-baseline across participants design for three elementary-aged students identified as emotional/behavioral disordered. The intervention consisted of an…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Teacher Workshops, Word Problems (Mathematics), Teaching Methods