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Christopher J. Wagner – Language Arts, 2024
Within the context of literacy instruction, the process of becoming focuses on students' literate identities, or the identities that learners take on and construct in the social and cultural context of learning to read and write (Wagner et al., 2024). In this article, the author explores identity with the purpose of using it as an organizing…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Self Concept, Social Environment, Cultural Context
Smolkin, Laura B.; Young, Craig A. – Language Arts, 2011
Concerns for the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth and the children of families who so self-identify suggest that teachers may need additional support in fostering classrooms that welcome all students. The field of children's literature has long-standing interests in multiple cultures and the literature…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Textbooks, Content Analysis, Fiction
Hassett, Dawnene D. – Language Arts, 2010
This article offers a way of thinking about literacy instruction that critiques current reasoning, but also provides a space to dynamically think outside of prevalent practices. It presents a framework for both planning and studying literacy pedagogy that combines a practical everyday model of the reading process with Michel Foucault's (1988c)…
Descriptors: Games, Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Reading Processes
Roser, Nancy – Language Arts, 2010
Roser discusses how both teachers and librarians, whom she calls the preservers of children's reading, should cling tightly to three essential practices to ensure that our children read more, read better, and read more widely. She argues we should: a) keep the classroom library viable; b) preserve, protect, and defend time for self-selected…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Instructional Materials, Classroom Environment, Teacher Influence
Herr, Kathryn; Naiditch, Fernando – Language Arts, 2011
Low-income male students of color are among the populations experiencing the least amount of success in the current arrangements of school, described by some as part of the "the boy crisis" in education. This article draws on a year long ethnographic study of a single-sex, all-male classroom in a public middle school. It explores their experiences…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Single Sex Schools, Males, Ethnic Groups
Whitmore, Kathryn F.; Laurich, Lindsay – Language Arts, 2010
What features of the physical environment in video game arcades lead kids to be so engaged? How can analysis of arcade space inform language arts teachers' decisions about designing classroom environments? This article presents an analysis of physical space in video game arcades and participants' positions therein to suggest how language arts…
Descriptors: Video Games, Physical Environment, Recreational Activities, Classroom Environment
Paugh, Patricia; Carey, Jane; King-Jackson, Valerie; Russell, Shelley – Language Arts, 2007
This article focuses on the evolution of the classroom literacy block as a learning space where teachers and students renegotiated activities for independent vocabulary and word work within a high-stakes reform environment. When a second grade classroom teacher and literacy support specialist decided to co-teach, they invited all students in the…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Literacy, Classroom Environment, Critical Reading
Cappello, Marva – Language Arts, 2006
This article explores the ways three young students expressed their perceptions about literacy and investigates how their classroom identity shapes and is shaped by those perceptions. The ways in which positioning within a writing event and the classroom culture contributed to the development of writing voice and identity are examined. In…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Writing Workshops, Literacy, Young Children

Heyerman, Barbara; Sherbow, Mark – Language Arts, 1996
Describes one multi-age classroom that includes children from 6-11 years of age (traditionally grades 1-5). Explains how this unique learning community began; how student groupings were established to promote social interaction and peer collaboration among a wide age span of children; what the class looked like in actual practice; and what the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education

Vukelich, Carol – Language Arts, 1993
Reviews the role of social interaction in literacy knowledge construction and the importance of the enrichment of the classroom environment in promoting literacy interactions. Describes the information about writing embedded in a group of kindergartners' interactions during play. (RS)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten, Peer Influence

Whatley, April; Canalis, Janda – Language Arts, 2002
Presents a story of the collaboration of two educators who developed communities of learners in their own classroom contexts. Describes the experiences shared as they reflected, revised, and struggled to improve their own practice. Discusses their continual struggle with ways to fully engage all students in the community-building process. (SG)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Community Involvement, Grade 2, Literacy

Siemens, Lisa – Language Arts, 1994
Discusses a classroom where children from many cultures use talk to share and discover the "big" questions in their lives and where the teacher discovers what the critical issues for her and her students really are. (RS)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Listening Skills, Primary Education

Dudley-Marling, Curt – Language Arts, 1995
Offers reflections by a teacher educator who spent a year teaching a third-grade class. Discusses the realities of a teacher's internal decision-making process and day-to-day interactions with children in the classroom. Notes that uncertainty is what keeps the inquiry process going. (SR)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Behavior

Jett-Simpson, Mary; Masland, Susan – Language Arts, 1993
Examines what children's own stories reveal about the attributes they assign to females. Discusses the different ways elementary school boys and girls orally completed an unfinished story about a girl wanting to play baseball. Proposes how teachers can help move their students toward a more gender-fair classroom environment by using instructional…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Sex Fairness

Leland, Christine H.; Harste, Jerome C. – Language Arts, 1994
Discusses what happens when students and teachers are encouraged to use multiple ways of knowing in mediating their experiences with the world. Suggests that a good language arts program expands the communication potential of all learners through the orchestration and use of multiple ways of knowing for purposes of ongoing interpretation and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Curriculum Development, Definitions, Elementary Education