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Kimberly Lenters; Ronna Mosher; Stacey Hanzel – Reading Teacher, 2025
Making connections between children's existing means of expression (play, art, and movement) and the intricacies of print is a necessary and time-honored approach to writing instruction in the early years of school, yet, after kindergarten, one that is easily overlooked. In this article, we examine an approach to writing instruction for…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Writing (Composition)
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Serveh Naghshbandi – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2025
This paper presents a micro-cycle of design, detailing an experiential art workshop conducted with first to third-grade students in an elementary school in Iran. The four-session educational program aimed to prompt children to explore the school environment through leveraging visual and sound arts as investigative tools. Drawing on a Design-Based…
Descriptors: Art Education, Audio Equipment, Video Technology, Elementary School Students
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Beauchemin, Faythe – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to work toward more fully conceptualizing literacy practices as social by theorizing the combined relational and intellectual context for learning. This context is created through students' and their teachers' uses of language. In particular, the quality of language that creates this intellectual relational…
Descriptors: Literacy, Literacy Education, Language Usage, Teacher Student Relationship
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Wessel-Powell, Christy; Lu, Ya-Huei; Wohlwend, Karen – Reading Teacher, 2018
Increased emphasis on standardization in primary grades can stifle spontaneous literacy play. The authors argue that allowing playful, collaborative, multimodal literacies into primary classrooms and specifically in writers' workshop can expand and enliven the way we see students' literacy strengths. The authors look closely at the unique…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Standards, Teaching Methods, Play
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Durán, Leah – Journal of Literacy Research, 2017
This study explored how an audience-focused writing curriculum mediated the literacy development of bilingual Latina/o first-grade students. Drawing on translingual theories of literacy and scholarship describing the role of audience and audience awareness in skilled writing, this study qualitatively documented and analyzed students' writing and…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Bilingualism, Hispanic American Students, Elementary School Students
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Chaves, Orlando; Fernandez, Alejandro – HOW, 2016
This article reports an action-research project aimed at designing, applying, and assessing a didactic sequence for teaching English as a foreign language in the first grade of a public school in Cali. The article comprises the context, reasons that justified the research, theoretical support, methodology, and results, analyzed through descriptive…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Language Proficiency
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Chevalier, Juline A. – Journal of Museum Education, 2015
In a two-year study, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University education staff found that students who participated in a museum-school collaboration became more proficient in several Common Core State Standard skills than a control group. The program, Words & Pictures, directly ties to the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards and is…
Descriptors: Museums, Teaching Methods, School Community Programs, Common Core State Standards
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Mounla, Ghina; Bahous, Rima; Nabhani, Mona – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2011
This study analyzed the effects of the implementation of the readers' workshop on students' reading levels and comprehension skills in a first-grade, mixed-ability classroom in Lebanon. The instruments used at the beginning were running records and reading continuums, and at the end of the academic year, teachers' professional notebooks and notes…
Descriptors: Workshops, Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Durham, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative study examined the role of arts instruction and arts integrated teaching in the development of cognitive process and personal dispositions of children with moderate to severe learning disabilities. Interviews, observations, and artifact data were gathered to gain a deeper understanding of what and how children learn in and through…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Private Schools, Visual Arts, Classroom Desegregation
Archibald, Michele – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Writing is an essential component of young children's early literacy development, and active participation in writing instruction contributes to their growth as writers. Providing engaging writing instruction to meet the academically diverse needs of young learners, however, can challenge early childhood teachers. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Student Surveys, Writing Workshops, Social Change
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Martin, Linda E.; Thacker, Shirley – Young Children, 2009
This article describes how one such teacher, Shirley Thacker, developed and implemented a successful writing program in her first grade classroom, which is known as Thackerville. Shirley describes how she motivated a classroom of first-graders to use the writing process in a workshop format and how this approach affected the children's perceptions…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Grade 1, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
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McCarry, Beth; Greenwood, Scott – Young Children, 2009
McCarry, a first grade teacher, formed a voluntary writing group, Writers' Lunch Club, that met the developmental and individual needs of children and inspired enthusiasm and writing success. In the article, she explains the guidelines, compares the club's writing strategies with those in the classroom, and lists tips and benefits.
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Clubs, Writing Skills, Grade 1
Taberski, Sharon – Heinemann, 2010
The author cuts through the pressurized, strategy-overloaded, fluency-crazed atmosphere surrounding reading instruction to lay out the reading and writing workshop practices that are most effective in developing readers in the primary grades. She shares the daily how-tos needed to sustain a literacy block that engages children in authentic reading…
Descriptors: Independent Reading, Oral Language, Writing Processes, Study Guides
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Ranker, Jason – Journal of Literacy Research, 2009
This is a qualitative case study (conducted in an urban, public school classroom in the United States) of the collaborative composing processes of two groups of first-grade students designated as English Language Learners (ELLs) as they wrote in a writing workshop context. I focused on a specific type of the students' hybrid composing practices:…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Urban Schools, Public Schools
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Jasmine, Joanne; Weiner, Wendy – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2007
Writing Workshop is an interactive approach to teaching writing as students learn and practice the importance of rehearsal, drafting/revising, and editing their pieces of writing (Calkins, 1986; Graves, 1983). This study implemented a mixed methodology design incorporating qualitative and quantitative analysis (Mills, 2007) by administering a pre…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Teaching Methods, Editing, Writing Workshops
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