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Hansen, Jane – Reading Teacher, 2002
Describes a teacher's experiences in rural Brazil as she delivered a 5-day inservice teacher education workshop on incorporating writing into the curriculum. Notes that the minister of education, a student in the course, announced that she intended to expand the program by having volunteers from among current workshop members serve as mentors for…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education

Au, Kathryn – Reading Teacher, 2001
Notes that a major issue in literacy instruction today is whether commercial reading programs emphasizing phonemic awareness and phonics are more effective than teacher-designed programs that focus on literature-based reading and process writing with integrated skill instruction. Reviews two books that address this controversy. Presents seven…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics

Stasz, Bird – Reading Teacher, 2000
Describes a project in Romania that trains elementary and secondary teachers in folklore and oral history fieldwork methodology, so that their own students can collect materials from their communities that are pertinent to their lives and bring it back to the classroom. Describes successful outcomes from around Romania in the project's first year.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries