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Christy Howard; Mikkaka Overstreet; Anne Swenson Ticknor – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024
Howard, Overstreet, and Ticknor build on the framework they established in their first book "It's Not 'One More Thing'." They extend their practical how-to strategies for enacting culturally responsive and affirming literacy instruction in K-12 classrooms specific to literacy assessment, engaging texts used for literacy instruction, and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Culturally Relevant Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Teaching Methods
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
Milner, Joseph O.; Hawkins, Robin H.; Milner, Lucy M. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2014
This article exposes the problem of using declarative rather than procedural knowledge to help K--12 students recognize irony in stories. It offers commonplace procedures drawn from students' everyday language experience together with more abstract irony clues to help students recognize irony in stories and increase their story comprehension.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Figurative Language, Elementary Secondary Education, Story Grammar
Soiferman, L. Karen; Straw, Stanley B. – Online Submission, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate what teachers in a Western Canadian province were doing when engaging their students with literature. Forty two teachers from Kindergarten through to Grade 12 were interviewed, which allowed us to get a broad perspective on the types of reader response activities that are being taught in the classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reader Response, Literature Appreciation, Teacher Attitudes
Turchi, Laura; Thompson, Ayanna – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
The Common Core generally eschews mandating texts in favor of promoting critical analysis and rigor. So it's significant that Shakespeare is the only author invoked in imperatives. His explicit inclusion offers a significant opportunity for educators to rethink how we approach Shakespearean instruction. Rather than the traditional learning of…
Descriptors: State Standards, English Literature, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Cook, Michelle – Science Scope, 2012
Visuals play an important role in the teaching and learning of science and should be embedded within and supportive of authentic science inquiry. Both researchers and teachers believe that visuals have a great deal of potential to help students understand science, but in practice, these visuals do not always live up to their promise. Teachers need…
Descriptors: Guidance, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Visual Stimuli
Monnin, Katie – New Horizons in Education, 2010
Background: A current problem in media literacy studies is whether or not to categorize graphic novels as media literacy texts. Thus, this article begins with a review of current media literacy research and its emphasis on defining media literacy texts as texts that rely on both print literacies and image literacies. Because graphic novels rely on…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Media Literacy, Teaching Methods, Novels
Felvegi, Emese; Matthew, Kathryn I. – Computers in the Schools, 2012
In this article the authors present a review of literature from multiple disciplines pertaining to using eBooks in the classroom in order to understand the underlying literacy and technology related issues and challenges. eBooks brought about changes in how students learn to read, and in how they read to learn. They require students to learn new…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy, Books, Electronic Publishing
Bluestein, N. Alexandra – Reading Teacher, 2010
This article briefly addresses the theoretical underpinnings of comprehension strategy instruction for both proficient and struggling readers before going on to explain how the external features of expository text serve as an ideal foundation to learn how to determine importance in nonfiction. Specific methods for utilizing the text features of…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Nonfiction, Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension
Ohman, Marie – Sport, Education and Society, 2010
The purpose of this article is to "describe and illustrate an approach" that facilitates a study of power and governing processes in teachers' and students' interactive actions and dealings. This approach is inspired by Foucault's work on power and the research field emanating from the concept of governmentality. The approach is…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Reader Text Relationship
Soares, Lina Bell; Wood, Karen – Reading Teacher, 2010
In a time of increasing plurality in today's public schools, it is essential that students become critically competent citizens by examining current and historical social justice issues. The purpose of this manuscript is to provide the research, theory, and practice for teachers to help students take a critical stance as they read and respond to…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Global Approach, Social Studies, Public Schools
Skerrett, Allison – Action in Teacher Education, 2009
This article explores learning experiences utilized in an adolescent literacy course to facilitate preservice teachers' development of knowledge and dispositions to teach critical literacy for social justice. The analysis is conducted through self-study methods and the theoretical construct of third space. Findings indicate that engaging…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teaching Methods
Flynn, Rosalind M. – International Reading Association (NJ3), 2007
Unlike traditional Readers Theatre, which is typically limited to literature-based scripts, Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre (CBRT) allows teachers and students to create scripts based on any topic, any work of literature, any textbook, or almost any collection of facts. It can be easily incorporated into the existing curriculum, and because this…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Scripts, Theater Arts
Cai, Mingshui – Language Arts, 2008
Recently, transactional reader response theory has been criticized for providing an inadequate theoretical guide for the study of multicultural literature. Some scholars argue that Rosenblatt assumes the reader and her response to literature are ideologically innocent and the continuum of aesthetic and efferent stance does not encompass critical…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Reader Response, Literature, Critical Theory

Bernhardt, Elizabeth Buchter – Theory into Practice, 1987
This article explores the dynamic, interactive relationship between texts and their teacher- and student-readers and suggests instructional and educational implications resulting from these interactions. (DF)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Reader Text Relationship, Teaching Methods