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Community Responsive Literacies: The Development of the Ethnic Studies Praxis Story Plot
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Edward R. Curammeng; Daisy D. Lopez; Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2016
Purpose: Momentum around the institutionalization of Ethnic Studies in US K-12 classrooms is increasing. Opponents have argued that Ethnic Studies does not challenge students academically and prepare them for high stakes testing (Planas, 2012; Sanchez, 2007). Conversely, research continues to show ways Ethnic Studies contribute to students'…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Studies, Language Arts, Culturally Relevant Education
Adolescent Literacy in the Academic Disciplines: General Principles and Practical Strategies
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Jetton, Tamara L., Ed.; Shanahan, Cynthia, Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2012
From leading authorities in both adolescent literacy and content-area teaching, this book addresses the particular challenges of literacy learning in each of the major academic disciplines. Chapters focus on how to help students successfully engage with texts and ideas in English/literature, science, math, history, and arts classrooms. The book…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Literacy, Reading Instruction, Mathematics Instruction
A Social Semiotics Framework for Conceptualizing Content Area Literacies
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Wilson, Amy Alexandra – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
The author outlines ways in which conceptions of texts and literacy may be distinctive across academic disciplines. Framed in theories of social semiotics, she asserts that each discipline is recreated through a series of texts, defined broadly to include any instances of communication. Texts in each content area not only instantiate a particular…
Descriptors: Discipline, Content Area Reading, Literacy, Semiotics
Features of Gender: An Analysis of the Visual Texts of Third Grade Children
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Albers, Peggy; Frederick, Tammy; Cowan, Kay – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2009
How do primary students construct understandings of the opposite sex? In what ways do these constructions manifest in the visual texts created in literacy and language arts classrooms? Using visual discourse analysis (Albers, 2007) and scheme analysis (Sonesson, 1988) as interpretive methods, we analyzed the visual texts created by 23 third grade…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Semantics, Language Arts, Reader Text Relationship
"Drawing Is a Frame of Mind": An Evaluation of Students' Perceptions about Reading Instruction within a Response to Intervention Model
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Chapman, Lauren; Greenfield, Renee; Rinaldi, Claudia – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2010
This investigation is part of a larger study examining the effects of a school-wide literacy reform effort through a multi-leveled system of instructional delivery. The research question addressed was, "How do students perceive reading instruction within their elementary language arts classroom?" Students' perceptions were analyzed through…
Descriptors: Group Instruction, Intervention, Student Attitudes, Reading Instruction
Reading: A Literary Feast: Proceedings of the Claremont Reading Conference (56th, Claremont, CA, March 10-11, 1989). Fifty-Third Yearbook.
Douglass, Malcolm P., Ed. – 1989
Articles in this yearbook address the issue of emphasizing the basics in reading development, and also focus on the literary experience. Articles, listed by their authors, include: (1) "A Second Helping" (Myra Cohn Livingston); (2) "Not Only a New Curriculum but a New Teacher" (Marilyn Hanf Buckley); (3) "Reading--A…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts