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Cárdenas Curiel, Lucía; Ponzio, Christina M. – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2021
This article proposes ways to authentically amplify writer's workshop for emergent bilinguals. Through the study of one bilingual teacher's mediation in teaching, we examined the affordances that translanguaging and transmodal practices have for emergent bilingual students' writing processes. In this case study, we focused on a writing sequence…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Multiple Literacies, Sociocultural Patterns, Literacy
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Perugini, Dorie Conlon – Learning Languages, 2015
In this brief article, elementary Spanish teacher, Dorie Perugini describes a classroom project that not only enabled students to explore their own culture and cultures around the world, but motivated them to create a beautiful piece of art. Like most elementary language teachers, Perugini needed to teach her class about food. While planning her…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chou, Mu-hsuan – Education 3-13, 2014
In Taiwan, English was only officially taught at the secondary and tertiary levels before 2001. Since 2001, English courses have been formally incorporated into the curriculum in primary schools. Research on teaching and assessing English in primary school education is relatively new compared with research on other levels of education in Taiwan.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Field, Sherry L.; Bauml, Michelle; Wilhelm, Ron W.; Jenkins, Joelle – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2012
This qualitative content analysis was conducted to determine how Mexico and Mexican people are portrayed in contemporary U.S. elementary social studies textbooks. Three textbooks from each of three major publishers were analyzed. Findings are presented in five sections: images and photographs, holidays, Mexican people and heroes, contested…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mexicans, Cultural Awareness, Primary Education
Johnson, Judith C. – Arts & Activities, 2009
As the holidays approached this year, the author was looking for something new and different from poinsettias, Christmas trees and snowy landscapes for third-graders. This is a special class who is up for new ideas and art adventures. They had not yet used the changeable markers, which are great fun for pattern and design work. This article…
Descriptors: Holidays, Art Activities, Studio Art, Grade 3
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Erwin, Heather E.; Bachtel, Amy – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2007
Holidays present the perfect opportunity for physical educators to utilize creative TAG (Teaching Active Games) games to offer maximum physical activity opportunities for their students. The TAG ideas in this article offer physical education teachers quick, instant activities that involve very little equipment, time management, or instruction. At…
Descriptors: Holidays, Physical Education, Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level