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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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Allison, Barbara N.; Rehm, Marsha L. – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2016
Online classes have become a popular and viable method of educating students in both K-12 settings and higher education, including in family and consumer sciences (FCS) programs. Online learning dramatically affects the way students learn. This article addresses how online learning can accommodate the sensory learning modalities (sight, hearing,…
Descriptors: Consumer Science, Family Life Education, Electronic Learning, Multisensory Learning
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Martens, Prisca; Martens, Ray; Doyle, Michelle Hassay; Loomis, Jenna; Aghalarov, Stacy – Reading Teacher, 2013
This article shares the authors' work with first graders and how, through various reading, writing, and art experiences around picturebooks, the children learned to read and communicate through art along with written language. The work is grounded in multimodality theory and the belief that all modes (particularly art for the purposes of this…
Descriptors: Art Education, Written Language, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
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Exley, Beryl; Cottrell, Amber – English in Australia, 2012
The recently introduced "Australian Curriculum: English" (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), 2012) requires students to "read" multimodal text and describe the effects of structure and organisation. We begin this article by tracing the variable understandings of what reading multimodal text might…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intermode Differences, Learning Modalities, Multimedia Instruction
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Schultz, Katherine; Coleman-King, Chonika – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2012
This article documents what happened when a teacher in an urban school shifted classroom practice through changing participation structures to incorporate digital technology and multiple modalities into a fifth grade literacy curriculum. This shift in teacher practice provided opportunities for immigrant students to become more visible in the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Elementary School Students, Urban Schools, Urban Teaching
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Jacobi, Bonnie S. – General Music Today, 2012
The principles of Hungarian music educator Zoltan Kodaly can be particularly useful not only in teaching children how to read music notation but also in creating curiosity and enjoyment for reading music. Many of Kodaly's ideas pertaining to music literacy have been echoed by educators such as Jerome Bruner and Edwin Gordon, as well as current…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Music Reading, Educational Principles
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Britsch, Susan Jane; Heise, Kathryn A. – Science and Children, 2006
Children with special learning needs participate fully in the authors' science classes every day; their job as teachers is to bring about meaningful science connections for all students, including those who do not communicate their knowledge most effectively through the ways most typically associated with classroom learning (i.e., reading,…
Descriptors: Science Projects, Hands on Science, Science Instruction, Special Needs Students
George, Karlene – 1993
This report describes Project Success Enrichment, a language arts program and designated a National Diffusion Network exemplary program that has proven successful with students of all ability levels program that has proven successful with students of all ability levels and cultural backgrounds, including American Indian students. Currently, this…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians