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Teaching and Learning in the Global Village: Connect, Create, Collaborate, and Communicate
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Dwyer, Bernadette – Reading Teacher, 2016
The world is increasingly interconnected through technology. In order to live and work in a global village our students need to develop global literacy. Global literacy incorporates a range of overlapping concepts including an advocacy dimension, global citizenship responsibility, and cultural and linguistic awareness. Further, global literacy…
Descriptors: Global Education, Multiple Literacies, Technology Uses in Education, Social Media
Exploring the Use of the iPad for Literacy Learning
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Hutchison, Amy; Beschorner, Beth; Schmidt-Crawford, Denise – Reading Teacher, 2012
The goal of this investigation was to explore how a fourth grade teacher could integrate iPads into her literacy instruction to simultaneously teach print-based and digital literacy goals. The teacher used iPads for a three-week period during her literacy instruction and selected apps that provided unique approaches to helping the students meet…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Literacy, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education
Topic and Main Idea: Clearing Up the Confusion (In the Classroom).
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Duffelmeyer, Frederick A.; Duffelmeyer, Barbara Blakely – Reading Teacher, 1991
Describes two learning activities that help students understand the difference between main ideas and the topic of a paragraph or passage. (MG)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Learning Strategies, Paragraphs
Learning through Writing (ERIC/RCS).
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Smith, Carl B. – Reading Teacher, 1989
States that writing is the one language outlet that enables a person to capture and examine thoughts. Notes the growing number of studies that help teachers evaluate writing as a learning technique. (MG)
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Learning Strategies, Reading Writing Relationship, Writing (Composition)
Four Strategies that Develop Children's Story Comprehension and Writing.
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Smith, Marilyn; Bean, Thomas W. – Reading Teacher, 1983
Describes four strategies that can help develop children's sense of story structure: story patterns, circle stories, story pictures, and story maker. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Learning Strategies, Primary Education
Concept of Definition: A Key to Improving Students' Vocabulary.
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Schwartz, Robert M.; Raphael, Taffy E. – Reading Teacher, 1985
Offers a set of lesson plans that use simple semantic word maps to help students improve their vocabulary knowledge and comprehension in all subject areas. (FL)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Content Area Reading, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities
An Environmental Reading Program.
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Marturano, Arlene – Reading Teacher, 1985
Describes an Environmental Reading Program, in which students come to realize that they are readers of their surroundings. Shows how the program can stimulate thought processes and promote comprehension. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities
Classroom Organization for Instruction in Content Areas.
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Pardo, Laura S.; Raphael, Taffy E. – Reading Teacher, 1991
Examines three ways (whole class, cooperative small groups, and individuals) to organize classrooms to meet the goals of content area instruction. Uses the experiences of students to illustrate how different grouping arrangements foster particular kinds of learning. (MG)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Cooperative Learning