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Erica Darken; Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau; Mark Hauber; Jie Park – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
This collaboratively authored piece highlights Poetry Inside Out, a poetry translation program that creates new pathways for culturally and linguistically sustaining literacy education. In Poetry Inside Out, students collaborate to translate world-class poems from their original language (e.g., Spanish, Chinese) into English. Informing PIO's…
Descriptors: Poetry, Translation, Literacy, Inquiry
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Grysko, Rebeca A.; Zygouris-Coe, Vassiliki I. – Reading Teacher, 2020
The elementary grades provide a rich context for literacy and science learning. Reading, writing, and talk support students' conceptual understanding of and engagement with science. The authors provide theoretical and research evidence to support the teaching of five instructional strategies that can facilitate literacy and science learning in…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Bickford, John H. – History Teacher, 2021
Young children can engage in close reading, critical thinking, and historical thinking when age-appropriate texts are coupled with discipline-specific tasks. Prior knowledge is an impediment, though. Primary elementary learners simply do not have much of a historical schema. Because of primary elementary students' familiarity with Thanksgiving,…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, United States History, Social Studies
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Casler-Failing, Shelli L. – Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching and Learning Conference, 2018
This paper describes a unit designed to promote the development of narrative writing skills among 5th grade students through the use of LEGO robotics. Over the course of four, two and one-half hour sessions (one day per week for four consecutive weeks), the students learned how to construct and program robots, write and present a proposal to…
Descriptors: Robotics, Technology Integration, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
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Barone, Diane; Barone, Rebecca – Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, 2017
Fifth graders responded to a video of a picturebook,"The Red Tree" by Shaun Tan. They had not experienced explicit instruction in visual literacy and their responses served as a foundation for basic understanding of their analysis. We learned that they focused on four major areas: emotional aspects; visual qualities, summaries of the…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Video Technology, Childrens Literature
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George, Alice – Teaching Artist Journal, 2012
This article describes a project in poetry and visual art that leads students to explore metaphor in generative and novel ways. The author shares what she and her teaching partner Ronna Pritikin have learned about fostering brave and joyful student artist and poets. "Be an Artist With Your Words" is a twelve-session residency, in which the author…
Descriptors: Art Education, Figurative Language, Grade 5, Poetry
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Reagan, Rebecca – Social Studies, 2008
In this article, the author describes her use of direct instruction to introduce the skill of determining source reliability in a fifth-grade unit on immigration in American history. She structures instruction to help students establish a thinking-skill strategy that results in not only an understanding of immigration in the late 1800s to early…
Descriptors: United States History, Grade 5, Immigration, Direct Instruction
Dryden, Lisa S. – Teaching Pre K-8, 2005
Letter writing in a "Dear Abby" format can encourage your reluctant writers to dig deeper into books by dispensing advice to troubled characters When this author's triplet daughters were in the fifth grade and wrote the advice column for their school newspaper, she discovered giving advice can motivate reluctant writers. This realization prompted …
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Creative Teaching, Writing Skills, Elementary School Students
Graham, Steve; Perin, Dolores – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2007
This report offers a number of specific teaching techniques that research suggests will help 4th- to 12th-grade students in this nation's schools. The report focuses on all students, not just those who display writing difficulties, although this latter group is deservedly the focus of much attention. The premise of this report is that all students…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Writing Assignments, Writing Difficulties, Sentences
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McCarthey, Sarah J.; Garcia, Georgia Ernest; Lopez-Velasquez, Angela M.; Lin, Shumin; Guo, Yi-Huey – Research in the Teaching of English, 2004
This article explores the writing opportunities provided to Spanish-speaking and mandarin speaking English Language Learners at the fourth and fifth-grade level across the various classroom settings in which they participated daily: an all-English speaking classroom, an English-as-a-second language (ESL) classroom, and a native-language classroom.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 5, Mandarin Chinese, Grade 4