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Heineke, Amy J.; Papola-Ellis, Aimee; Elliott, Joseph – Reading Teacher, 2022
In schools across the country and world, students enter classrooms with rich diversity in backgrounds, identities, and experiences. They speak hundreds of different languages, come from countries around the world, espouse nuanced cultural and gender identities, and have an array of abilities and interests. But texts in school and classroom…
Descriptors: Reader Text Relationship, Student Diversity, Culturally Relevant Education, Reading Material Selection
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Moore, Tara – Children's Literature in Education, 2023
Students in the English Language Arts classroom have access to more author commentary than ever. While following authors on social media may deepen students' engagement with their assigned reading, it also threatens to subdue students' own interpretations of the authors' texts. This essay explains how educators can introduce basic aspects of…
Descriptors: Authors, Childrens Literature, Death, Literary Criticism
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Hoffman, James V. – Reading Teacher, 2017
The author questions the "just right" leveling of student texts as having put limitations on students and teachers in promoting literacy. The historical background for the leveling of text and readers is described. The author identifies a number of unintended consequences associated with the use of leveling and guided reading.…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reader Text Relationship, Educational History, Reading Instruction
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Barter-Storm, Brandy; Wik, Tamara – TESOL Journal, 2020
Graphic novels are a form of authentic text that have started to gain widespread acceptance in the English language arts field and have been shown to increase students' motivation to read and engage deeply with texts. By integrating text with pictures, graphic novels have the advantage of requiring a lighter cognitive load than traditional…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Civil Rights, Cartoons, Novels
Reisman, Abby – Educational Leadership, 2017
In this article, Abby Reisman offers four instructional practices that educators can use to help students grapple with history's contradictions and engage in meaningful text-based discussions. Reisman details two suggestions that can be used in history classrooms and across the disciplines: orient students to one another and orient students to the…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reader Text Relationship, Social Studies
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Buelow, Stephanie – Reading Teacher, 2015
This article shares a literacy strategy to support students' analysis of the theme of text and provide evidence to support their assertion. The strategy is called Visual to Print Transfer (VPT). The VPT strategy leverages students' out-of-school literacy practices involving media images of Hollywood icons as a way to support their understanding of…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Strategies, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Skills
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Cardany, Audrey Berger – General Music Today, 2014
Tom Lichtenheld shares a new story of the power of music by illustrating Joe Raposo's classic "Sesame Street" song "Sing." In addition to lesson suggestions for general music classes, a discussion of and application to the theory of transactional reading are included.
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Singing, Music Teachers
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Harrison, Kelly – Reading Teacher, 2016
What better place for young little minds who are full of energy and eager to soak up as much information as possible than a notebook for them to collect their new learning and thoughts? What is it about notebooks that makes writing and learning fun? I wanted to experience the magical feeling that notebooks create with my students--hence, the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Literacy, Reader Text Relationship, Student Journals
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Swanson, Elizabeth; Wexler, Jade – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2017
One of the most efficient ways of learning essential content in the curriculum is through reading; however, accessing content through reading even some of the most basic texts for many students with disabilities is a challenge (C. Lee & Spratley, 2010). As a student enters secondary settings, text complexity, vocabulary demands, and curricular…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disabilities, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Special Education Teachers
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Roehling, Julia V.; Hebert, Michael; Nelson, J. Ron; Bohaty, Janet J. – Reading Teacher, 2017
Comprehending expository reading material is a challenge for many students. Research has shown that students' expository reading comprehension can improve with the help of text structure instruction. The purpose of this article is to present teachers with a framework for effectively implementing text structure instruction in their classrooms.…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Grade 2
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McKee, Lori; Carr, Gay – Reading Teacher, 2016
This teaching tip outlines a comprehension strategy designed to support early primary students in reading to learn while learning to read. The strategy is born of the authors' classroom practices and is designed to support young children in reading and understanding informational texts by facilitating close interactions between text and reader.…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Beginning Reading
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Strom, Carolyn – Reading Teacher, 2014
This teaching tip highlights a strategy that assists teachers in structuring classroom discussions about texts. Specifically, this conversational technique helps students think and talk about a text beyond its literal meaning. During classroom conversations that employ this strategy, teachers help students extend their overall understanding of a…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
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Lapp, Diane; Grant, Maria; Moss, Barbara; Johnson, Kelly – Reading Teacher, 2013
A question being asked by teachers across the country is, How can I teach students to acquire both the skills and knowledge demanded by the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) while simultaneously guiding them to read challenging texts such as those presented in Appendix B of the CCSS? Answering this invites the integration of ideas and the…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Content Area Reading, Reader Text Relationship
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Zwiers, Jeff – Reading Teacher, 2011
The activities described in this article, Prediction Path and Quotation Cafe, are adapted from the IRA book "Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12." They highlight the reading comprehension habit of making inferences and predictions, which can be used across content areas and grade levels. In creating this toolkit of activities, the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Teachers, Inferences
Ratliff, Gerald Lee – Online Submission, 2010
Whether constructed on literary analysis models or inspired by conventional acting theories, Reader's Theatre performance techniques are an invaluable instructional tool available to teachers who want their students to see, hear and feel Shakespeare texts in classroom discussion and performance. These exercises are designed to promote both a…
Descriptors: English Literature, Literary Criticism, Models, Theater Arts
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