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Building Bridges: Curating Text Sets to Connect to Learners' Lives
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Opatz, Margaret Osgood; Nelson, Elizabeth Thackeray – Reading Teacher, 2022
The authors demonstrate how teachers can scaffold instruction that invites students into the learning process by presenting engaging, relevant material. Employing five steps, the authors describe how to curate and sequence text sets: access learners' funds of knowledge, begin with the end in mind, consult the curriculum to determine areas that…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Learning Processes, Cultural Background
The Learning Process.
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Giorgis, Cyndi; Johnson, Nancy J. – Reading Teacher, 2001
Features literature to help with one goal educators have--to nurture the desire to always learn something new. Presents annotations of children's books including topics such as: examining the learning process, learning by trial and error, learning challenges and anxieties, choices and responsibilities in learning, and learning as exploration. (SG)
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes
Some Less Obvious Cognitive Aspects of Learning to Read
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Stott, D. H. – Reading Teacher, 1973
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Learning Motivation, Learning Processes
In The Classroom.
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Talacek, Barbara A.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1992
Presents practical ideas for classroom use in literacy education, including a schoolwide reading incentive program; a center to publish students' work; a way to use the calendar to improve reading; and a method for using children's oral language patterns (such as jump rope rhymes) to teach reading skills and strategies. (PRA)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Learning Processes, Literacy