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Brownell, Cassie J. – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background/Context: Educators have considered how Minecraft supports language and literacy practices in the game and in the spaces and circumstances immediately surrounding gameplay. However, it is still necessary to develop additional conceptualizations of how children and youth's online and offline worlds and experiences are blurred by and…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Writing Assignments, English Instruction
Watson, Ashley Renee – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study looks at a student writing culture in a fifth grade English language arts classroom through the lens of Foucauldian power dynamics to examine the power relationships in the classroom and curriculum. The research questions were: (1) What is the nature of a writing culture in a fifth-grade writing classroom?; (2) What are students'…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Classroom Environment, Writing Instruction, Power Structure
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Yearta, Lindsay – Reading Teacher, 2019
Based on research conducted in a fourth-grade classroom, the author describes one teacher's process for integrating social studies and English language arts using a writers' workshop approach. Furthermore, the fourth-grade teacher was able to provide students with an opportunity to engage in multimodal composition. After conducting research…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Social Studies, Language Arts, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Wang, Elaine Lin – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Successful implementation of academic standards depends on teachers' understanding of the intended policy and their interpretation of what the policy means for their instruction (Spillane et al., 2002). This study examines the writing tasks fourth- and fifth- grade teachers understand as being aligned with the CCSS [Common Core State Standards],…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Writing Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Policy
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Ramsay, Julie D. – Educational Leadership, 2014
Sixth grade language arts teacher Julie Ramsay was disheartened at her students' lack of interest in writing, so she began looking at what they were doing online to see if she could bring some of those experiences to the classroom. She saw that students enjoyed having opportunities to share their experiences with an audience and receive…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Language Arts, Student Motivation, Writing Assignments
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Brown, David W., Jr.; Albers, Peggy – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2014
How do fifth-grade students in a gifted class construct understandings of the opposite sex? In what ways do these constructions manifest in the visual texts created in literacy and language arts classrooms? This qualitative study integrated visual arts to understand how fifth-grade gifted students represented and perceived gender roles. Using…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Grade 5, Academically Gifted, Qualitative Research