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Bintz, William; Ciercierski, Lisa – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2022
This article describes an instructional strategy developed to integrate reading and writing. This strategy invites students to use reading, writing poetry, and illustrating as tools to represent intertextual connections to self-selected paired text. It identifies poetic inquiry as the research methodology, discusses intertextuality, and provides a…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Integrated Activities, Educational Strategies
West, Jane – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2018
Many college students fall into the habit of coming to class unprepared, without having read assigned texts, or having read partially and superficially. As a consequence, they may take a passive stance, discussion can fall flat, and learning can be diminished. This article describes an instructional strategy for engaging students as active…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), College Students, Active Learning
Felvegi, Emese; Matthew, Kathryn I. – Computers in the Schools, 2012
In this article the authors present a review of literature from multiple disciplines pertaining to using eBooks in the classroom in order to understand the underlying literacy and technology related issues and challenges. eBooks brought about changes in how students learn to read, and in how they read to learn. They require students to learn new…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy, Books, Electronic Publishing
Baer, Allison L. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2005
In an effort to make reading more visible and find out what goes on in the minds of adolescent readers, the author led a group of seventh-grade students in creating Symbolic Reading Inventories. The students created "snapshot" scenes from the books they were reading and placed themselves, as readers, in or around the picture. Reading is a complex…
Descriptors: Reading Material Selection, Reading Instruction, Early Adolescents, Grade 7

Ross, Steven M.; Smith, Lana J. – Elementary School Journal, 1994
Examined first-year results of the Success for All (SFA) program, designed to bring every student to grade level in reading by third grade. Found that SFA benefits were most significant at the kindergarten level; teachers were highly accepting of the program; and the program's strengths included cooperative learning, regrouping, tutoring, early…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Environment, Cooperative Learning, Early Reading