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Bringing Together a Harmony of Voices: Using the Inside-Out Strategy as a Culturally Responsive Approach to Intertwine Knowledge from Self, Peer, and Text
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Myers, Aimee; Hightower, Jessica – English in Texas, 2019
Culturally responsive teaching is often nebulous and challenging for many to integrate in an effective and intentional way. As novice teachers, we struggled with developing tangible ways to actualize culturally responsive teaching. However, through our combined experiences and research, we have gained a better understanding of culturally…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods, Prior Learning, Student Experience
Schema Activation, Construction, and Application. ERIC Digest.
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Alvarez, Marino C.; Risko, Victoria J. – 1989
Schema theorists have advanced the understanding of reading comprehension by describing how prior knowledge can enhance a reader's interaction with the text. Accordingly, comprehension occurs when a reader is able to use prior knowledge and experience to interpret a text's message. Educators and researchers have suggested numerous instructional…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Prior Learning, Reader Text Relationship
Learning from Text: A Multidimensional and Developmental Perspective.
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Jetton, Tamara L.; Alexander, Patricia A. – Reading Online, 2001
Explores the multidimensional nature of learning from text through a discussion of the critical variables of students' knowledge, interest, and use of strategies. Examines the developmental nature of learning from text as students journey through school from acclimation to competence, and finally to expertise in a subject area. Suggests…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Prior Learning, Reader Text Relationship
Readers, Texts and Conceptual Change Learning.
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Dole, Janice A. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2000
Examines reader and text variables related to conceptual change learning from science textbooks. Shows it is difficult to change readers' prior knowledge by reading texts that are inconsistent with that knowledge, but refutation text was shown to impact students' prior knowledge when that knowledge contained naive scientific conceptions. Addresses…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Misconceptions, Prior Learning, Reader Text Relationship
Reading Comprehension and the Learning Disabled Reader: Generalizations from Five Years of Research (1980-1985).
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Tama, M. Carrol; Martinez, David H. – 1986
Designed to explore what is being done to help learning disabled (LD) readers develop comprehension skills, this paper reviews research in teaching reading comprehension to LD students and develops generalizations from the research to guide reading comprehension instruction for such students. The 10 generalizations presented and discussed in the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Mainstreaming
The Text, the Student, and the Teacher: Learning from Exposition in Middle Schools.
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Flood, James – Reading Teacher, 1986
Argues that children need to be taught how to extract, synthesize, organize, and integrate important information from texts into their own knowledge structures and describes some techniques that can be used to activate prior knowledge. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing
Are Good Texts Always Better? Interactions of Text Coherence, Background Knowledge, and Levels of Understanding in Learning from Text.
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McNamara, Danielle S.; And Others – Cognition and Instruction, 1996
Two experiments investigated the role of text coherence in junior high school students' comprehension of science texts. Found that text coherence improved readers' comprehension, but also that giving readers with sufficient background knowledge an incoherent text that forced them to infer unstated relations engaged them in compensatory processing,…
Descriptors: Coherence, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Inferences