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Hongye Zeng – Reading Teacher, 2024
Writing in school has long been disconnected and inauthentic to multilingual learners due to its monolingual, language-focused, and standardized features. Although more and more researchers have called for and explored newer asset-based writing pedagogies, such as digital multimodal writing, to support diverse learners in response to emerging…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, Multiple Literacies, Learning Modalities
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Erica Darken; Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau; Mark Hauber; Jie Park – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
This collaboratively authored piece highlights Poetry Inside Out, a poetry translation program that creates new pathways for culturally and linguistically sustaining literacy education. In Poetry Inside Out, students collaborate to translate world-class poems from their original language (e.g., Spanish, Chinese) into English. Informing PIO's…
Descriptors: Poetry, Translation, Literacy, Inquiry
Kristen Secora; Kimberly Wolbers; Hannah Dostal – Grantee Submission, 2022
Purpose: This tutorial describes how a speech-language pathologist (SLP) might incorporate writing-based principles into therapy sessions to target a variety of speech and language goals for Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) children in addition to writing. We present an illustrative example of one SLP's experience implementing Strategic and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Therapy, Deafness, Children
Emily Morgan; Karen Ansberry – NSTA Press, 2023
There's a lot to love about this newly expanded book in the Picture-Perfect Science series: You can combine STEM and reading through appealing lessons that are just right for your second-grade students. Also, reading comprehension strategies are embedded in all 12 of the ready-to-teach lessons, 11 of which are updated and one brand-new. The goal…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Childrens Literature, Scientists, Scientific Literacy
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Clabough, Jeremiah; Bickford, John H. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2020
The "College, Career, and Civil Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards" guides teachers to initiate complex inquiries by sparking students' disciplinary literacy and critical analysis of rich sources. With effective scaffolding and engaging content, elementary students can explore and contextualize complex historical…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Social Studies, Primary Sources
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Grysko, Rebeca A.; Zygouris-Coe, Vassiliki I. – Reading Teacher, 2020
The elementary grades provide a rich context for literacy and science learning. Reading, writing, and talk support students' conceptual understanding of and engagement with science. The authors provide theoretical and research evidence to support the teaching of five instructional strategies that can facilitate literacy and science learning in…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Elementary School Students
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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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Firmender, Janine M.; Casa, Tutita M.; Colonnese, Madelynn W. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2017
Local teachers have been working with their colleagues and math coach for years on ensuring that oral discourse during their mathematics classes has them acting as a facilitator and allowing students themselves to make sense of the mathematics. Specifically, their discussions are aimed at having students reason mathematically because discourse and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Logical Thinking, Mathematics Instruction, Expository Writing
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Bickford, John H. – History Teacher, 2021
Young children can engage in close reading, critical thinking, and historical thinking when age-appropriate texts are coupled with discipline-specific tasks. Prior knowledge is an impediment, though. Primary elementary learners simply do not have much of a historical schema. Because of primary elementary students' familiarity with Thanksgiving,…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, United States History, Social Studies
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Casler-Failing, Shelli L. – Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching and Learning Conference, 2018
This paper describes a unit designed to promote the development of narrative writing skills among 5th grade students through the use of LEGO robotics. Over the course of four, two and one-half hour sessions (one day per week for four consecutive weeks), the students learned how to construct and program robots, write and present a proposal to…
Descriptors: Robotics, Technology Integration, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
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Erin Donovan – English Journal, 2017
This article, based on a study in a sixth-grade middle school classroom in the rural southern United States, details a writing project that questions the nature of text and how text might positively affect students' perceptions as they become change agents for their communities.
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Grade 6, Middle Schools, Writing Assignments
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Bragg, Leicha A.; Koch, Jessica; Willis, Ashley – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2017
One way to heighten students' interest in the classroom is by personalising tasks. Through designing Robot Bioglyphs students are able to explore personalised data through a creative and engaging process. By understanding, producing and interpreting data, students are able to develop their statistical literacy, which is an essential skill in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Statistics, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Wang, Elaine; Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Correnti, Richard – Reading Teacher, 2017
Supporting upper elementary students' higher level (i.e., analytic) thinking about texts in writing is a challenge for many teachers, in large part because what it means to analyze text is not well defined and because this skill is a relatively new expectation in elementary grades. In this article, the authors clarify the goal of three common…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
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Mesa, Jennifer – Science and Children, 2018
As an instructional framework, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can guide science teachers to purposefully apply evidence-based instructional practices to increase engagement and learning of students with disabilities (Israel, Ribuffo, and Smith 2014; Marino et al. 2014; Ok et al. 2016). This article describes how to use the Universal Design…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Access to Education, Barriers, Student Needs
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Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Wang, Elaine; Correnti, Richard – Reading Teacher, 2016
Research shows that cognitively demanding text-based writing assignments increase students' reading comprehension skills and analytic writing competencies. In this article, we describe the steps that upper-elementary grade teachers can take to develop cognitively demanding assignments that build these higher-level literacy skills and put students…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, College Readiness, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension
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