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LeBlanc, Robert Jean – Written Communication, 2015
This article examines students' literacy practices during Mass and other Catholic religious services in a multilingual, multiethnic urban Catholic school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It discusses three dimensions of their literacy practice: (a) how parents, teachers, and priests draw on the tradition of Catholic schooling and ritual to structure…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Religious Factors, Religious Education, Ethnography
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Waller, Rachael; Barrentine, Shelby J. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2015
Schooling can play a role in bolstering a sense of community, but research suggests that curriculum may serve to isolate teachers and students from their rural surroundings. In this qualitative case study, we asked if the literacy curriculum and instruction supported readers to make connections to their rural setting. We analyzed curriculum…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Rural Schools, Place Based Education, Reading Instruction
Madden, Angie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined the literacy identity development of fourth graders engaged in a writer's workshop, with literacy identity development referring to the ways students come to see themselves as readers and writers or the ways that others come to see them as readers and writers. The researcher collected data through observations during writing…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Grade 4, Literacy, Elementary School Students
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Parker, Mary; Hurry, Jane – Educational Review, 2007
Research suggests that children's understanding of text can be improved by the explicit teaching of those comprehension strategies that are used implicitly by skilled readers, particularly the use of self-regulating strategies to generate questions about text. This study of the teaching of comprehension in 51 London Key Stage 2 classrooms explores…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Questioning Techniques, Reader Text Relationship