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Gallant, Dorinda J.; Moore, James L., III – Educational Foundations, 2008
This study examined the extent to which ethnic-based differences exist in teacher ratings of African American students and White students on the language and literacy domain of a curriculum-embedded performance assessment for students in grade 1. It extended previous research on performance assessments to focus on issues related to equity in…
Descriptors: African American Students, Urban Schools, Performance Based Assessment, Academic Achievement
Brassell, Danny – Crystal Springs Books, 2007
Meeting the standards. Differentiating. Intriguing, involving, and inspiring students. Teachers meet standards; differentiate instruction; and intrigue, involve, and inspire students with these innovative lessons ripped from the headlines--and from the comics, the weather map, and the classified ads. The author offers step-by-step directions for…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, Vocabulary Development, Newspapers
Hapgood, Susanna; Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan – Educational Leadership, 2007
Inquiry-based science instruction can provide a rich context in which to build literacy skills in the elementary grades. The authors discuss the benefits of incorporating reading, writing, and speaking into science instruction. They describe the results of research on two models for combining language arts and science--the Science IDEAS model and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Literacy, Inquiry, Elementary Education
Doubek, Michael Brandon; Cooper, Eric J. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2007
This article describes the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education (NUA), a nonprofit advocacy organization that engages with school communities through professional development to build relationships with educators, students, parents, and community stakeholders. NUA consultants are former and current university professors, former…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Reading Research, Evaluation, Professional Development
Howat, Craig – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2007
The popular reality television show "Amazing Race" involves participants searching for clues and completing tasks as they progress on a journey all over the world. Inspired by the show, the author incorporated some of the tasks from "Amazing Race" with geocaching, a game in which participants use a Global Positioning System…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Heritage Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries
Campbell, Kermit E. – College Composition and Communication, 2007
This article offers a critical perspective on the default mode of freshman composition instruction, that is, its traditionally middle-class and white racial orientation. Although middle-classness and whiteness have been topics of critical interest among compositionists in recent years, perhaps the most effective challenge to this hegemony in…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Language Arts, Writing Instruction, Freshman Composition
Lenz, B. Keith; Adams, Gary L.; Bulgren, Janis A.; Pouliot, Norman; Laraux, Michelle – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2007
Previous research on students with learning disabilities has indicated that they benefit most from explicit instruction. However, few studies have examined how explicit instruction may be translated to the logistical demands associated with large-group instruction in high school general education settings in ways that are socially acceptable to…
Descriptors: Group Instruction, Core Curriculum, Learning Disabilities, Intermode Differences
Shimkanin, John; Murphy, Amy – Science and Children, 2007
Many teachers bring caterpillars into their class for their students to see the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly. This is exciting and educational, but more can be done using Monarchs across the curriculum. This article describes an integrated butterfly unit for students in grades four to six that starts with identifying the Monarch…
Descriptors: Entomology, Intermediate Grades, Grade 4, Grade 5
Stevens, Robert L.; Starkey, Melanie – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2007
The authors--a second grade classroom teacher and a university professor of education--decided to collaborate. Melanie wanted to find out if she could help her students increase their reading and writing comprehension by presenting a sequence of events in an activity (for example, the steps in building a house) and then have the students write the…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Social Studies, Reading Improvement, Writing Improvement
Garner, Joan – Teacher Ideas Press, 2006
The new Readers Theatre series features scripts for students in grades 4-8. These original scripts are written for the specific purpose of teaching literary genre. Each book is composed of 24-28 scripts, each of which will be keyed to published books, plays, poems or stories in that genre, encouraging students to read the originals in order to…
Descriptors: Scripts, Lesson Plans, Fantasy, Language Arts
Betterton, Maribelle H.; Ensworth, Lynne C. – Teaching Pre K-8, 2006
The authors discuss the "thematic literacy bags" project they created to help them integrate language arts across the curriculum, promoting differentiated instruction while taking into account various learning styles and multiple intelligences. This idea became a reality when they were awarded a local grant to develop innovative educational…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Thematic Approach, Integrated Curriculum, Language Arts
Van Sluys, Katie; Laman, Tasha Tropp – Reading Teacher, 2006
Many approaches to literacy instruction treat language as an object of study. The curricular assumptions that inform such instruction are that language is located outside the person, extracted from context, neutral, and explicable through defined rules. An underlying assumption in many language arts classrooms is that children will not pay…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Written Language, Literacy Education, Language Arts
Bigelow, Terry Patrick; Ried, C. A. – English Journal, 2006
The first part of this article recounts the experiences of a language arts teacher, Terry Patrick Bigelow, and his former student, Cynthia (Noyes) Ried, who suffers from Fahr's Syndrome, a neurodegenerative congenital disease that forms calcium deposits deep inside the brain. It is irreversible, inoperable, and incurable. In the first part of the…
Descriptors: Poetry, Middle Schools, Middle School Teachers, Language Arts
Flowers, Claudia; Browder, Diane; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn – Exceptional Children, 2006
Recent guidelines for No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB; 2001) permit the use of alternate achievement standards for counting up to 1% of students with significant cognitive disabilities as proficient in adequate yearly progress (AYP) calculations. This provision increases the importance of assessing the technical quality of alternate…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, State Standards, Academic Standards
Bainbridge, Joyce M.; Macy, Leonora – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2008
In this article, the authors explore the ways in which a selection of student teachers from two universities in Canada expressed their feelings of preparedness to teach literacy in elementary classrooms. The student teachers had experienced various approaches to literacy teaching as they progressed through their teacher education program. These…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Literacy, Teacher Education Programs