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Download full textAmy Davis – Advocate, 2018
This paper describes the transition of English language learners acquiring preliteracy skills in "learning to read" and the role of productive and receptive language in the development of phonological awareness. As English language learners transition to "reading to learn," oral reading fluency becomes an important component of…
Descriptors: English Learners, Emergent Literacy, Elementary School Students, Receptive Language
Direct linkHonig, Alice Sterling – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
How to help babies and young children right from birth to become competent in talking as well as emergent literacy is illustrated by research findings as well as with specific clinical stories. Both kinds of knowledge can serve to galvanize parents and teachers to increase awareness of infant and preschool language development and the crucial role…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Caregiver Role
Santoro, Lana Edwards; Baker, Scott K.; Fien, Hank; Smith, Jean Louise M.; Chard, David J. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2016
The use of informational texts in the elementary grades provides a context for helping students develop content understanding and domain knowledge across a wide range of subject matter. Reading informational text also provides students with the language of thought, foundational vocabulary that can be connected to other words, and technical content…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level
Baker, Kay – NAMTA Journal, 2013
The use of the hand is a physiological sequence. The prehensile nature of the human hand is an evolutionary feature as is the freeing of the hands due to bipedalism. Kay Baker outlines of the human hand's significance to the mind as found in chapter 14 of the "Absorbent Mind." In this article, she has created lists that break down the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Human Body, Handedness, Physiology
Sotiropoulou-Zormpala, Marina – Art Education, 2012
This article examines how it is possible to use the aesthetic process to enrich teaching practices in preschool and elementary school education. What is under scrutiny is the aesthetic dimension of a core curricular subject, the ultimate goal being to achieve an understanding of curricular content through aesthetic learning processes. For this…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Aesthetics, Teaching Methods, Class Activities
Merttens, Ruth; Robertson, Catherine – Literacy, 2005
This paper concerns an approach to raising literacy standards which is rather different from the prevailing orthodoxy the Rhyme and Ritual project. The project is run by the Hamilton Reading Project, which comprises a series of initiatives funded by the Hamilton Trust, an educational charity, and implemented in fifteen primary schools in a large…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Rhyme, Expressive Language
