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Enriquez, Grace – Children's Literature in Education, 2022
What can the affective turn mean for literacy educators who believe their work can lay the foundation for a life filled with meaningful reading pursuits, for students who "become" readers and "do" reading? Because reading occurs across and within an elaborate composite of time, space, relationships, histories, discourses, and…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Emotional Response, Reader Response
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Certo, Janine; Moxley, Kathleen; Reffitt, Kelly; Miller, Jeffrey A. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2010
The purpose of the present study was to investigate students' perceptions of their experiences with literature circles across elementary grades. A stratified random sample of 24 diverse students in grades one, three, four, and five were individually interviewed to obtain perceptions of their attitudes toward literature circles and their…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
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Brady, Susan; Gillis, Margie; Smith, Tara; Lavalette, MaryEllen; Liss-Bronstein, Linda; Lowe, Evelyn; North, Wendy; Russo, Evelyn; Wilder, T. Diane – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
The study examined the efficacy of an intensive form of professional development (PD) for building the knowledge of first-grade teachers in the areas of phonological awareness and phonics. The PD featured frequent in-class support from highly knowledgeable mentors for one school year, in addition to an introductory two-day summer institute and…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Phonics, Self Efficacy, Phonological Awareness