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Multilingual Learning Inside/Outside the Classroom: Insights from Intra-Active Events
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Liaw, Marsha Jing Ji; Botelho, Maria José; Lau, Sunny Man Chu – Reading Teacher, 2023
As K-5 dual language programs gain popularity in the United States, language teaching, however, often still prioritizes discrete and decontextualized learning that is not built on students' interests and experiences or their multilingual and multimodal resources. This article reports on a classroom-based ethnographic case study and illustrates how…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Writing Processes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Supporting Elementary Students' Sourcing of Historical Texts
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Popp, Jacquelynn S.; Hoard, Jodi – Reading Teacher, 2018
Sourcing involves interrogating historical documents, asking questions about their attributes to determine their relation to the historical event or time period under study. In this article, a university researcher and a sixth-grade teacher describe a set of heuristics that the teacher developed for supporting her students' sourcing of historical…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Primary Sources, Teaching Methods, Heuristics
Children's Strategies in Learning to Read and Write: An Examination of the Learning Process.
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Dehn, Mechthild – Reading Teacher, 1979
Case studies of first graders' approaches to learning reading and writing show that individual attack style is persistent regardless of teaching method and is related to personality and possibly physiology. (DD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Children, Individual Characteristics, Learning Processes