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The Learner Profiles of Novice Literacy Coaches
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Ortmann, Lisa L.; Brodeur, Katherine; Massey, Susan L. – Reading Horizons, 2020
Literacy coaches need support developing their professional capacities for coaching (Kern et al., 2018). This study explored the ways novice literacy coaches developed literacy coaching discourses during coursework in two reading specialist master's degree programs. Through qualitative and discourse analysis of transcribed coaching videos and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Coaching (Performance), Profiles, Role Playing
"It's Just Too Sad!": Teacher Candidates' Emotional Resistance to Picture Books
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Papola-Ellis, Aimee – Reading Horizons, 2016
The use of critical literacy with children's books that focus on social issues and disrupt the status quo can be a powerful way to create spaces for conversations with students about social justice and empowerment. Teacher candidates in a semester long children's literature course were asked to respond to a range of children's texts that dealt…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Picture Books, Critical Literacy, Childrens Literature
The Metalinguistic Protocol: Making Disciplinary Literacies Visible in Secondary Teaching and Learning
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McArthur, Kerry G. – Reading Horizons, 2012
Concerns about adolescent literacy continue to be highlighted in regards to the challenges of reading and learning from academic text. Recent efforts to address these concerns have led to an examination of the disciplines and their specialized ways of thinking and using language. In this article I discusses a metalinguistic protocol in a…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Literacy, Teaching Methods, Reading
"Do You Have a Brother? I Have Two!": The Nature of Questions Asked and Answered in Text-Focused Pen Pal Exchanges
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Hughes, Elizabeth M.; Evering, Lea; Malloy, Jacquelynn A.; Gambrell, Linda B. – Reading Horizons, 2014
Authentic learning experiences are those in which students engage with texts as well as the behaviors of reading and writing within contexts of real-world use beyond traditional academic use. This study provides quantitative analysis of how students (n = 200) engaged with an adult pen pal in a shared literacy experience. Findings indicate that…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Writing Relationship, Reading, Reading Instruction
Using the Media to Stimulate Writing.
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Gitelman, Honre Frank – Reading Horizons, 1990
Describes several writing activities in a writing program for fourth and fifth grade students using stimuli from the media. Notes that each theme was designed to increase students' ability to create original compositions from familiar material (such as advertisements and magazine photographs) using persuasive, narrative, or descriptive techniques.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Mass Media, Teaching Methods
Differentiating Text Assignments in Content Areas: Slicing the Task.
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Readence, John E.; Moore, David – Reading Horizons, 1980
Describes a method of individualizing textbook reading assignments. (MKM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Individualized Instruction, Reading Assignments, Reading Instruction
Computers and the Developmental Learner.
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Deming, Mary P.; Valeri-Gold, Maria – Reading Horizons, 1992
Discusses the use of computers in teaching basic writing to college students. Offers computer exercises and activities which foster a whole-language curriculum. (PRA)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Computers, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
Remembering Is Not Necessarily Understanding in Content Areas.
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Allington, Richard L.; Strange, Michael – Reading Horizons, 1979
Suggests that content reading teachers set goals for their reading assignments as a method of helping students learn from textbooks and read the assigned material critically.
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools