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Brimberry, Callie Ryan – Educational Leadership, 2020
One teacher encourages her students to write in the margins of the novels they are reading. These notes then turned to conversations about social justice issues and history when the books were passed to family members. The conversations in the margins were jumping-off points for conversations in class, and then students invited members of the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Clubs, Books, Reader Text Relationship
Keisha McIntyre-McCullough – English Journal, 2020
Overall, the author wanted to teach using culturally responsive approaches. The ELA teacher can fuel social justice teaching. In this article, the author discusses how their personal biases affected their classroom instruction and how they shifted their educational philosophy to consider the needs and interests of their students. In US education,…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Advanced Placement, Social Justice, Course Content
Armstrong, Sonya L.; Newman, Mary – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2011
In this article, a model of intertextuality is introduced as an instructional approach for postsecondary developmental reading courses. This model involves a scaffolded, schema building approach to teaching college reading that aims to link core material (a text, a concept, or specific academic content) with supplementary texts that focus on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, College Students, Learner Engagement
Ratliff, Gerald Lee – Online Submission, 2010
Whether constructed on literary analysis models or inspired by conventional acting theories, Reader's Theatre performance techniques are an invaluable instructional tool available to teachers who want their students to see, hear and feel Shakespeare texts in classroom discussion and performance. These exercises are designed to promote both a…
Descriptors: English Literature, Literary Criticism, Models, Theater Arts
Ovadia, Steven – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2011
Given the challenging economic climate in the United States, many academics are looking to open-access electronic textbooks as a way to provide students with traditional textbook content at a more financially advantageous price. Open access refers to "the free and widely available information throughout the World Wide Web. Once an article's…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Textbooks, Electronic Publishing, Access to Information
Bender-Slack, Delane – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2009
Studies on gender discourses in classrooms have specifically examined how students negotiate their individual gender identities while disregarding their lived realities within a historical context. Nevertheless, although it is difficult and uncomfortable for them, students' responses to discussing gender reveal that the discourse positively…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Student Attitudes, Discussion, Sex
Graff, Jennifer M. – Language Arts, 2010
This article shares the voices of preadolescent girls as they participated in an eight-month book selection study which enabled them to be active agents in their book and reading experiences. The girls, school-identified as struggling readers and self-identified as resistant readers, complicate current notions of reading, as influenced by…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Females, Preadolescents, Classification
Romano, Tom – English Journal, 2009
Students have fun with Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and video games. They have fun text messaging, talking on cell phones, listening to iPods. They have fun at theme parks and hanging out with friends. As their teacher the author wants to introduce students to another kind of fun. This fun can be time consuming, rigorous, and fulfilling. It's the…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Motivation, Learner Engagement, Teacher Responsibility
Ogle, Donna; Correa-Kovtun, Amy – Reading Teacher, 2010
Increasing numbers of English-language learners and the challenge of supporting their learning in social studies and science brought together a group of urban literacy coaches and university faculty. This article describes the development and refinement of a partner reading routine, Partner Reading and Content, Too (PRC2). Partners with similar…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Reading Difficulties, Oral Reading
Larson, Lotta C. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2009
Contemporary transformations in digital technologies have prompted a reassessment of what literacy means and what is determined a "text." Traditionally, text has been perceived as written messages and symbols in the forms of books, magazines, and newspapers. Today, text is recognized as much more than written words or images. As teachers consider…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Change, Electronic Publishing, Learning Modalities
Evans, Simon – ELT Journal, 2008
This paper looks at two specific problems faced by second-language university students attending courses in English for Academic Purposes: expository texts and reading-to-write tasks. A reading reaction journal (RRJ) can provide a forum for students as they activate a variety of reading strategies when reading expository text and in addition, can…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language), College Students

Shearer, Deborah – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 1997
Describes how the attitudes toward textbooks of students enrolled in a study strategies class underwent change as they worked with a particular psychology textbook. Notes that the students wrote to the author, who in turn wrote back. Argues that students' affective responses to textbook reading may be the most undervalued dimension of content area…
Descriptors: Authors, Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Reader Text Relationship
Zafeiriou, Georgia – Education for Information, 2003
The present article presents conditions relating to the effective use of text-based computer conferencing for group interaction. More specifically, it discusses ways peers found in order to express themselves as members of on-line groups and if they were able to reach consensus during interaction. The findings of the research are based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Grounded Theory, Teleconferencing
Jackson, Wendy – National Middle School Association (NJ3), 2005
Students frequently react negatively to the idea that they are going to study Shakespeare, but many teachers get students excited about studying Shakespeare by involving them in their learning. In this article, the author describes how she developed and implemented a plan to engage students in Shakespeare. She set the stage by transforming the…
Descriptors: Classical Literature, Reader Text Relationship, Educational Strategies, Drama

Swindall, Vickie; Cantrell, R. Jeffrey – Reading Teacher, 1999
Describes "Character Interviews," a class activity that guides children, especially reluctant readers, to the meaning of a story through a thoughtful understanding of character as they consider a character's emotions and motives, to respond to a question as that character would. Describes the interview process. Offers sample interviews…
Descriptors: Characterization, Class Activities, Elementary Education, Interviews
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