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Michelle Honeyford; Jennifer Watt – Literacy, 2025
As writers are increasingly required to leave their ways of knowing, doing and being at the doors of their classrooms, this article explores what happens when teachers of writers open those doors and mobilize the "Writing Realities" framework's interrelated principles of "writer-identity," "critical literacies,"…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers, Teaching Methods, Institutes (Training Programs)
Tapia, Esther; Reyes, Iliana; Kalman, Judith – Literacy, 2023
In this article, we share the vernacular literacy practices of a sixth grade students in Mexico City. From a sociocultural, ethnographic perspective and based on the contributions of the sociolinguistics of mobility and funds of knowledge, we describe the experiences and knowledge that children bring with them from home and the community to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mexicans, Elementary School Students, Cultural Background
Beck, Sarah W.; del Calvo, Andrew O. – Literacy, 2023
Though discipline-specific approaches to literacy instruction can support adolescents' academic literacy and identity development, scant attention has been paid to ways of targeting such instruction to address individual student needs. Dialogic writing assessment is an approach to conducting writing conferences that foregrounds students' composing…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Dialogs (Language), Social Studies, History Instruction
Jin, Jing; Liu, Yina – Literacy, 2023
Learning Mandarin Chinese as a heritage or additional language at Chinese complementary schools has long been a tradition for many Asian Canadians. However, research that looks at teachers' experiences and perceptions in Canadian settings, especially the power dynamics embedded in biliteracy development at complementary schools, is scant.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Literacy Education, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning
Lim, Fei Victor; Weninger, Csilla; Nguyen, Thi Thu Ha – Literacy, 2021
Multiliteracies has been incorporated in the curriculum of many education systems around the world. Beyond the broadening of focus in literacy to include multimodal meaning-making, multiliteracies pedagogies are also associated with certain pedagogical shifts, such as a focus on bridging the students' out-of-school literacy practices with what and…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Literacy, Teaching Methods, Social Media
Rebecca Woodard; Amanda R. Diaz; Nathan C. Phillips; Maria Varelas; Rachelle Tsachor; Rebecca Kotler; Ronan Rock; Miguel Melchor – Literacy, 2024
A team of literacy, science, and theatre educators have been working to engage children in an urban public school system in the United States through embodied performances, where students embody and dramatise science ideas. This study focuses on one fourth-grade classroom when instruction was done remotely due to Covid-19. Children in the class…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Educational Technology, Science Instruction, Teacher Collaboration
Abas, Suriati – Literacy, 2023
In the wake of grim events such as Russian invasion on Ukraine, Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, the death of George Floyd in America and mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, all occurring amid the pandemic of COVID-19, it became increasingly more important to recognise literacy work that promotes a critically informed and just society.…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Cartoons
Cultivating Critical Global Citizens through Secondary EFL Education: A Case Study of Mainland China
Sun, Lina – Literacy, 2023
This paper examines the enactment of critical literacy pedagogy in secondary English language teaching in the face of globalisation. This qualitative case study signals that global citizenship education (GCE) and English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching can converge through offering equitable and globally contextualised learning opportunities.…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Literacy Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Papen, Uta – Literacy, 2020
This paper presents findings from a collaborative project on critical visual literacy in primary schools. In the project, we (a researcher and a teacher) implemented a series of picture book discussions with children in years 5 and 6. Our first aim was to develop the children's ability to analyse the visual images in picture books and how…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Critical Literacy, Teaching Methods, Visual Literacy
Amy Walker; Casey M. Pennington – Literacy, 2024
In this article, we explore the dynamic interplay of youth agency, spatial justice, and literacy practices across community spaces through micro-analysis of photographs and interviews of children and youth. Through a lens of spatial reclamation, the study investigates how children and youth disrupt adult-designed spaces to restory and reclaim…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Personal Autonomy, Safety, Activism
Jen Aggleton; Emily Mannard; Mona Humaid Aljanahi; Christian Ehret – Literacy, 2025
Research strongly supports the use of narrative videogames in the literacy/English classroom. However, for many teachers, incorporating videogames into their teaching practice is highly challenging. This article offers new insights into the potential of videogames as a pedagogical tool for literacy/English by exploring the barriers that teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Technology Uses in Education, Video Games, Teaching Methods
Kovalik, Kate; Curwood, Jen Scott – Literacy, 2019
Adolescents are more connected to the globalised world than ever before, with an increased prevalence of social media use amongst youth. Young people are composing multimodal creative works, including digital poetry, to share with an online audience, using platforms such as Instagram. Drawing on transliteracies theory, this case study found that…
Descriptors: Poetry, Case Studies, Social Media, Literacy
Yap, Jia Rong; Gurney, Laura – Literacy, 2023
Digital technologies have fast become integral within literacy learning and teaching across contexts as students engage with a variety of digital and multimodal texts. While teachers in New Zealand schools have a high degree of autonomy in the design and planning of literacy programs, little is currently known about how they understand and enact…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
Robin Griffith; Jennifer M. Smith – Literacy, 2024
This qualitative study highlights how children's literature can serve as a springboard for discussing current events while making connections with a similar historical event. Undergraduate students enrolled in children's literature courses read the graphic novel "Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918" and discussed the parallels between the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cartoons, Novels, Current Events
Lee, Jeongmin; D'sa, Nikhit; Zuilkowski, Stephanie Simmons – Literacy, 2020
Improving literacy outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa is a central focus of national governments, donors and non-governmental organisations alike, as evidenced by the inclusion of literacy as a target in the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 4. Though significant international development funding has been devoted to teacher training in the…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Foreign Countries, Oral Language