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Phillips Galloway, Emily – Reading Teacher, 2023
While research unequivocally points to the need to teach the language that supports participation in reading and writing activities in middle-grade classrooms, many educators grapple with how to create the instructional conditions that promote equitable and just opportunities for students to learn the Language of School Literacy (LSL). In this…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Middle School Students, Teaching Methods, Access to Education
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Zoeller, Emily; Briceño, Allison – Reading Teacher, 2022
When working with bilingual readers, teaching for equity means building on students' linguistic strengths. To do so, we must provide intentionally designed holistic literacy instruction that encourages students to use their full literacy and linguistic repertoire. This article describes an asset-oriented approach called "Transliteracy"…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Native Language
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Murphy, P. Karen; Croninger, Rachel M. V.; Baszczewski, Sara E.; Tondreau, Cory L. – Reading Teacher, 2022
Classroom discussions are regarded by both practitioners and researchers as an essential pedagogical practice for fostering students' high-level comprehension of text yet cultivating a dialogic classroom culture conducive to supporting students' productive talk can be a delicate undertaking. In this article, using a series of transcripts from one…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Models, Dialogs (Language), Classroom Communication
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Cartwright, Kelly B.; Duke, Nell K. – Reading Teacher, 2019
Reading involves and is influenced by many factors, which makes reading difficult to understand, teach, and explain to parents, policymakers, and other stakeholders. A metaphor of driving, which likens reading to an everyday practice, demystifies complexities inherent in reading. Both reading and driving are active, strategic processes. Just as…
Descriptors: Models, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes, Figurative Language
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Goodwin, Amanda P.; Jiménez, Robert – Reading Teacher, 2016
This teaching tip shares a research-based instructional model that uses translation to improve the English reading comprehension of English Learners. Within this instruction, English learners work collaboratively in small groups and use translation to facilitate understandings of their required English language arts curriculum. Students are taught…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, English Instruction
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Reznitskaya, Alina – Reading Teacher, 2012
Dialogic teaching--a pedagogical approach that involves students in a collaborative construction of meaning and is characterized by shared control over the key aspects of classroom discourse--has been largely advocated by contemporary research and theory. However, studies in the US and UK continue to document the persistence of monologic…
Descriptors: Models, Rating Scales, Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Boyle, Owen F.; Peregoy, Suzanne F. – Reading Teacher, 1990
Defines the notion of literacy scaffold and explains why literacy scaffolding applies to both first- and second-language learners. Offers criteria for teachers to apply in developing scaffolds. Illustrates the model with scaffolding activities used with elementary children, emphasizing the kinds of social contexts that optimize learning. (MG)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition, Models
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Sheridan, Sally – Reading Teacher, 1986
Discusses a model of the reading process drawn from ideas used in foreign language instruction and resting on the distinction between reading acquisition and reading learning. Explains how the model can be applied in the classroom. (FL)
Descriptors: Early Reading, Educational Theories, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
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Wepner, Shelley B. – Reading Teacher, 1988
Describes a model that can be used to integrate computers into the language arts curriculum. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Integrated Curriculum