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Jacquelyn M. Urbani; Candace Monroe-Speed; Bhavya Doshi – Reading Teacher, 2024
Multiple racial issues in America have been brought to the forefront by the recent deaths of African Americans, yet many teachers feel unprepared to engage with students around issues of race. Their discomfort is likely because traditional textbooks omitted the experiences of non-dominant, marginalized groups, thereby denying readers an…
Descriptors: Racism, Democracy, Books, Diversity
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Hadley, Elizabeth Burke; Barnes, Erica M.; Hwang, HyeJin – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: Early childhood teachers' talk is a key ingredient in children's early language and literacy development, but there has been little systematic synthesis of observational studies that examine relationships between teacher talk and child oral language. In this systematic review of 54 studies, we investigate and synthesize the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Language Teachers, Language Usage, Child Language
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Jordi Casteleyn – Reading Teacher, 2025
This article examines findings from an umbrella review of 95 systematic reviews and meta-analyses on effective reading instruction. The analysis highlights that reading is a multifaceted process, requiring the integration of key components such as decoding, comprehension, fluency, and motivation. The review underscores the importance of early…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Processes
Boyle, Susannah A.; McNaughton, David; Chapin, Shelley E. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2019
Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) often demonstrate delays in early language and literacy skills. Shared reading, the practice of adults reading aloud to children while using behaviors (e.g., asking questions) that are meant to promote interaction between the adult and child, is an intervention that has had positive effects on those…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Language Skills, Children, Autism
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Kropp, Jerri J.; Shupp, Mikaela M. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2017
Research findings on the presence of a therapy dog in the classroom are summarized. The authors reviewed 30 articles, book chapters, and other sources on the topic of the various uses of dogs in classrooms, published between 2001 and 2017. Ages studied ranged from 3 years to adolescence (high school). In our analysis, three categories of…
Descriptors: Animals, Therapy, Teaching Methods, Reading Programs
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Alnahdi, Ghaleb Hamad – International Education Studies, 2015
A systematic review of the literature related to instructional strategies to improve reading skills for students with intellectual disabilities was conducted. Studies reviewed were within three categories; early reading approaches, comprehensive approaches, and one method approach. It was concluded that students with intellectual disabilities are…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Reading Instruction, Literature Reviews, Teaching Methods
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Bradbury, Leslie U. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to review the literature published during the last 20 years that investigates the impact of approaches that describe themselves as integrating science and language arts on student learning and/or attitude at the elementary level. The majority of papers report that integrated approaches led to greater student…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Language Arts, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods
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Lennox, Sandra – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2013
Enhancing young children's early literacy achievement is a top priority in many countries. There is a considerable body of research demonstrating young children's language development as a critical factor in reading and later academic success. Implementation of high quality literacy instruction has the potential to improve literacy…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Emergent Literacy, Oral Reading, Language Acquisition
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Domine, Vanessa – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2009
This article explores the literature in the intersecting fields of media, technology and schooling in the United States across the past two centuries. It organizes the research from a social-historical perspective through a fictionalized interview with an archetypal third-generation urban public school teacher. This topography illustrates the…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Educational History, Social History, Media Literacy
Amann, Theresa N. – 1986
In order to assess current ideas, reveal their shortcomings, and suggest steps for future investigation, this review of the literature on teaching poetry discusses definitions of poetry, references on teaching poetry, teaching methods, poetic forms, experimental research, and the benefits of poetry. The paper concludes that the lack of empirical…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Literature Appreciation
Craker, George; Richardson, Jim – Australian Journal of Reading, 1980
Describes research involving a technique for use with poor readers, called "read-along," in which a tutor reads aloud an interesting story with the student required to do no more than follow the line of print and read along with the tutor when possible. (AEA)
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Primary Education, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Difficulties
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Slaughter, Judith Pollard – Reading Teacher, 1983
Describes the shared book experience, which involves having a teacher enlarge a story book, place it on an easel where everyone can see it, and then read it aloud to students. Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this technique. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Oral Reading, Primary Education, Reading Aloud to Others
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Weir, Beth – Reading Horizons, 1989
Reviews research and anecdotal accounts which present instructional techniques and which suggest that the quality of instruction, quality of time, and quality of books are significant factors in ensuring that story reading is a true literacy event. Argues that consistent story readings facilitate the acquisition of the reading process. (RS)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Literature Reviews, Readers Theater, Reading Aloud to Others
McCormick, Sandra – 1981
This document provides an overview, in table form, of research pertaining to the effects of reading aloud to preschool children, and stresses the important benefits that reading aloud to children has on language development, reading interest, and social attitudes and values. A reference list is included to allow teachers to locate the 12 original…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Language Acquisition, Learning Readiness, Literature Reviews
Kazemek, Francis E. – 1992
The views and practices of literacy advocates who focus on workplace literacy foster an impoverished understanding of adult literacy and, ultimately, life itself. They reduce literacy to something that is "functional" in the reductive sense of serving someone else's ends as a functionary. A "functionally literate" person is a consumer of someone…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Functional Literacy, Functional Reading