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Çetin, Hakan; Çetin, Seyma Cihan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
The purpose of this research is to examine the effect of story wheel method on creative writing skills, story elements information and word number. The research was designed as an experimental model. It consisted of seven weeks, including pre and post tests. The research group consisted of 13 third grade students attending at a school in Siirt…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Writing Skills, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
Thomas, M'Balia – Teacher Educator, 2018
The following exploratory study examines the effects of a "Harry Potter"-inspired "border crossing" analogy (HPBCA) on preservice teachers' (n = 25) Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) content knowledge and disposition toward English language learners (ELLs). The analogy capitalizes on the prior and shared…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Methods Courses, Preservice Teachers, English (Second Language)
Petersen, Douglas B.; Mesquita, Meredith W.; Spencer, Trina D.; Waldron, Jessica – Topics in Language Disorders, 2020
This early-stage feasibility study investigated the effects of a multitiered oral narrative language intervention on oral language, reading comprehension, and writing. Twenty-eight second-grade students participated in this quasi-experimental control group study with assignment at the classroom level. The independent variable was large- and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Reading Comprehension, Pretests Posttests, Phrase Structure
Witte, Priscilla G. – Reading Teacher, 2016
This formative and design study examined how the Complex Text Analysis (CTA) instructional approach provided support for first-grade students to increase their comprehension of texts of increasing complexity. The students in the diverse class participated in weekly lessons during which fictional texts were read aloud and analyzed in terms of key…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Grade 1, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods
Traga Philippakos, Zoi A.; Munsell, Sarah; Robinson, Logan – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2019
The purpose of this study was to design and evaluate an instructional approach that combined strategy instruction with principles of dialogic pedagogy to improve the story writing of students in grades K-2 (n = 219). Specifically, drama, dialogic interactions, and oral retellings assisted learners with ideation, while strategies guided their…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Literacy Education, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods
Shanahan, Timothy – Reading Teacher, 2015
This column explains three ways that teachers can improve reading test performance. Basically, the idea is that instead of teaching students to respond to particular question types as is typical of test preparation despite the ineffectiveness of this practice, it is better to teach students to read the test passages more effectively. Three…
Descriptors: Scores, Reading Tests, Teaching Methods, Test Preparation
Wei, Jing – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The Theme is a major aspect of how speakers construct their messages in a way which makes them fit smoothly into the unfolding language event. Thematic choice provides clues as to how English learners organize information and shape their texts. Previous studies reveal that English learners deviated from English native speakers in their thematic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Academic Discourse, Instructional Effectiveness
Bentham, Jo; Davies, Peter; Galbraith, David – Educational Review, 2016
This paper describes an exploratory trial conducted with 14-15 year-old students in English state schools who were studying business start-ups as part of a course in "Business Studies". The intervention uses a "Story Grammar" strategy to improve students' reasoning by increasing the frequency and complexity of their use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Business Education, Teaching Methods
LoMonico, Michael – English Journal, 2012
Why do educators teach literature? The author thinks they can hear the answer in the voice of Huckleberry Finn and David Copperfield and Holden Caulfield and the omniscient narrator in "Beloved." It's the wonderful sound of those words, the gorgeous flow of those well-crafted sentences, and the marvelous way Twain and Dickens and Morrison and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation, Literary Styles
Serafini, Frank – Reading Teacher, 2012
Teachers need a deeper understanding of the texts being discussed, in particular the various textual and visual aspects of picturebooks themselves, including the images, written text and design elements, to support how readers made sense of these texts. As teachers become familiar with aspects of literary criticism, art history, visual grammar,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Familiarity, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Page, Melissa A. – English Journal, 2012
The classroom dynamic has become a competition of whose information is more important: the quickly accessed and popular digital texts or the perhaps less popular print texts. Whether or not teachers or school systems sanction the reading or teaching of popular culture texts in the classroom, students are reading--are even bombarded with--messages…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Skills, Popular Culture, Layout (Publications)
Modiba, Maropeng; Stewart, Sandra – Research in Education, 2013
In this paper we draw on theories of teaching English as a second language (L2) to examine ways in which a teacher taught a novel to Grade 9 students whose home language is not English. How this second language English-speaker engaged with and spoke about her teaching highlighted her understanding of the challenges students seemed to experience…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Novels, English Instruction
Gietz, Merrilee R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The effectiveness of using American Sign Language (ASL) handshape stories to teach word recognition in whole stories using a descriptive case study approach was explored. Four profoundly deaf children ages 7 to 8, enrolled in a self-contained deaf education classroom in a public school in the south participated in the story time five-week…
Descriptors: Deafness, American Sign Language, Word Recognition, Case Studies
Bui, Yvonne N.; Fagan, Yvette M. – Preventing School Failure, 2013
The study evaluated the effects of the Integrated Reading Comprehension Strategy on two levels. The Integrated Reading Comprehension Strategy integrated story grammar instruction and story maps, prior knowledge and prediction method, and word webs through a culturally responsive teaching framework; the Integrated Reading Comprehension Strategy…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Womack, Sue A.; Marchant, Michelle; Borders, Deah – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2011
Social skill deficits and learning disabilities often coexist. Academic work is negatively impacted by students' lack of social skills. Remediation of these deficits in pull-out programs has not generally resulted in transfer to real-world settings. Embedding social skills instruction within literature during a read-aloud session taught in the…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Interpersonal Competence, Reading Aloud to Others, Educational Strategies
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