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Susan Kowalski; Ayesha Hashim; Scott Peters – NWEA, 2025
When elementary schools integrate literacy and science instruction, they create rich learning environments that allow students to develop an understanding of science ideas while improving their reading, writing, and speaking skills at the same time. Neither subject takes a back seat. Literacy instruction supports science and science instruction…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science, Literacy Education
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Bulat, Jennae; Dubeck, Margaret; Green, Paula; Harden, Karon; Henny, Catherine; Mattos, Mónika; Pflepsen, Alison; Robledo, Ana; Sitabkhan, Yasmin – RTI International, 2017
Over the past decade, RTI International has pursued the goal of quality, inclusive, differentiated early grade literacy instruction in nearly 30 early grade reading or early grade literacy programs in low- and middle-income (LMI) countries. Across our diverse portfolio, we have supported Ministries of Education (Ministries) in diverse contexts in…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Instructional Improvement, Teaching Methods, Instructional Materials
Washington, Julie A.; Seidenberg, Mark S. – American Educator, 2021
Teaching reading to children whose language differs from the oral language of the classroom and from the linguistic structure of academic text adds an additional layer of complexity to reading instruction. There is a large and growing body of evidence indicating that language variation impacts reading, spelling, and writing in predictable ways. In…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, African American Students, Language Usage, Language of Instruction
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Solvie, Pamela A. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2007
Postmodern theory is used to consider literacy instruction with and without an electronic whiteboard to investigate what it means to move beyond using technology to replicate older models of classroom structure that may be historically situated but that also limit or at least, do not support engagement in ways that may be possible through use of…
Descriptors: Ideology, Educational Technology, Emergent Literacy, Postmodernism
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Wheaton, Craig; Kay, Stephen – Educational Leadership, 1999
Faced with low literacy levels, four schools in Santa Clara, California, decreed that every entering kindergartner would be a competent reader by the end of second grade. The schools then implemented the 1,000 Days Network--an uninterrupted morning literacy block tailored to children's needs. Preliminary results are encouraging. (MLH)
Descriptors: Accountability, Intervention, Literacy Education, Low Achievement
Goldman, Shelley V.; And Others – 1989
The paper reports on the application of a computer local area network and software to develop both literacy skills and science content knowledge in 15 deaf students. The network approach allows for interaction between a large number of students and the teacher both within and outside the context of the lesson and utilizes support programs to allow…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Deafness