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Henry, Alyssa R.; Solari, Emily J. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
Many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience associated difficulties in reading comprehension. This may be due to the social nature of fictional texts, which require the reader to interpret what characters are thinking and feeling and to make inferences about the cause and effect between events in a story. This paper outlines…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension
Shadiev, Rustam; Wang, Xueying; Liu, Taoying; Yang, Mengke – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Fifty-one learning strategies were developed and validated in this study to make language learners more knowledgeable about unfamiliar environments. The study tested the effectiveness of the strategies in improving the creativity of students. 75 university students participated in the study and they were divided into three groups: (1) students who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, English (Second Language), Educational Environment
Nja, Cecilia Obi; Cornelius-Ukpepi, Bernedette; Edoho, Emmanuel Asuquo; Neji, Hope Amba – Educational Research and Reviews, 2020
This paper seeks to investigate how students' performance in Chemistry can be enhanced by using kitchen resources in Calabar. The kitchen resources used included a piece of white paper, a swab, lemon juice and candle. These were used to show that paper cellulose was oxidized by flame due to the catalysis of lemon juice acid. Other materials used…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
Bin Tuwaym, Sultan Turki; Berry, Ann Bassett – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2018
Assistive technology (AT) for students with visual impairments (VI) is an essential part of their educational program. AT allows students to develop skills, engage in the academic environment, and function independently. Despite the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) mandate for AT as part of a student's Individualized Education…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Assistive Technology, Rural Schools, Teacher Education
Page, Michelle L. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2017
English language arts teachers and other literacy educators have the opportunity to create more positive and more inclusive school experiences for gender- and sexual-minority students, but many hesitate to transform their curricula and practices because of fear of community protest. To support educators who feel vulnerable or constrained, this…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Minority Group Students
Simpson, Lisa A.; Bui, Yvonne – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2017
Students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often challenged by social interaction and may require substantial support to interact with peers even in inclusive settings. Having adults support students with ASD during peer interactions, however, may ostracize the student from peers without disabilities. Peer-mediated strategies are needed so…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interaction, Peer Relationship
Turner, William James – Primary Science, 2015
There is no such thing as being "English-y" or "maths-y." One person may find English comes more naturally, but being naturally gifted at one subject does not make a person bad at the others. Just because we may find it more challenging to access certain content, this does not mean there is a barrier. William James Turner…
Descriptors: Barriers, Familiarity, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
Kervin, Lisa; Mantei, Jessica – Reading Teacher, 2017
Storytelling is a practice that enables children to apply their literacy skills. This article shares a collaborative literacy strategy devised to enable children to create multimodal stories about their familiar school environment. The strategy uses resources, including the children's own drawings, images from Google Maps, and the Puppet Pals…
Descriptors: Children, Story Telling, Literacy Education, Learning Strategies
Hodgkinson, Todd; Parks, Stephanie – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2016
The purpose of this article is to familiarize teachers with the concept of executive functioning and to provide them with a collection of strategies that they can use to help support middle and high school students with planning, organization, task-initiation, and impulse control.
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Executive Function, Familiarity, Concept Teaching
Merryfield, Merry M. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2012
An open mind--the willingness to consider experiences, beliefs, values, perspectives, etc. that differ from one's own--allows the learner to explore how diverse people across the world think and act. Open-mindedness creates opportunities to rethink assumptions, identify misinformation, and consider alternative ways to make decisions.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Consciousness Raising, Social Justice, Stereotypes
Kannan, Srimathi; Smith, Rebecca; Foley, Christine; Del Sole, Sarah; White, Alissa; Sheldon, Lisa A.; Mietlcki-Floyd, Shirley; Severin, Suzanne – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2011
FruitZotic incorporated fruit stories (exotic-fruits-literacy), a "See, Smell, Hear, Touch and Taste" (sensory) segment and a question-prompted discussion. Three take-home components incorporating the exotic fruits were: Coloring Activity, Recipes, and Fact Sheets. Sensory based nutrition education can increase familiarity with exotic…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Disadvantaged Youth, Familiarity, Preschool Children
Patel, Nimisha; Franco, Suzanne; Miura, Yoko; Boyd, Brian – School Science and Mathematics, 2012
This paper examines professional development workshops focused on Connected Math, a particular curriculum utilized or being considered by the middle-school mathematics teachers involved in the study. The hope was that as teachers better understood the curriculum used in their classrooms, i.e., Connected Math, they would simultaneously deepen their…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Mathematics Teachers, Professional Development, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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
Milambiling, Joyce – English Teaching Forum, 2011
Students who study English as a Foreign Language (EFL) often already speak two or more languages. Knowing more than one language is a necessity for many people worldwide, whether it is because their parents come from different language backgrounds, because their home, regional, national, or school languages are different, or for a variety of other…
Descriptors: Assignments, Familiarity, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
Houck, Noel R., Ed.; Tatsuki, Donna H., Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2011
This volume offers teachers in the ESL/EFL classroom some of the first published materials for guiding learners past grammar into authentic-sounding (conventional) utterances and sequences, replacing the scripted unnatural or stilted dialogue provided in textbooks. Teachers will find a range of pedagogical activities to put to immediate use in the…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Textbooks, Metalinguistics, Familiarity