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Lu, Lucia Y. – English Language Teaching, 2010
In a graduate literacy course, the author as the teacher educator conceptualized "Visual Literacy" into the course. In-service and pre-service teachers from inner-city schools in Georgia and Virginia invited struggling writers to create graphic novels by envisioning life activities, using drawings, and invented spellings as well as…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Graduate Study, Writing Instruction, Novels
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Masterson, Jackie; Laxon, Veronica; Lovejoy, Sophie; Morris, Victoria – Journal of Research in Reading, 2007
Two groups of undergraduate students, matched for reading skill but differing in spelling ability, participated in three experiments with the aim of exploring the causes of differences in spelling skill in this population. In the first experiment participants were presented with a range of tasks to investigate the possibility that the poor…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Spelling, Phonology, Economically Disadvantaged
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Pelletier, Janette; Reeve, Richard; Halewood, Cindy – Early Education and Development, 2006
This study examined how the use of Knowledge Forum (KF)[R], a networked, Internet-based learning environment, was related to the literacy development of 4-year-old children in a laboratory school affiliated with the University of Toronto. Over the course of the year, children participated in a longitudinal photo journal project. With adult…
Descriptors: Laboratory Schools, Invented Spelling, Gender Differences, Emergent Literacy