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Martin, Kachina; Yoder, Maureen – Arts & Activities, 2009
Museum studies will certainly reinforce students' appreciation of art history and art production. A student's understanding of a museum's function will deepen with each museum visit. Students will recognize that a museum can be organized around materials and kinds of art, periods of art history and cultures, and the works of an individual artist.…
Descriptors: Museums, Field Trips, Elementary School Students, High School Students
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Paterson, Patricia O.; Elliott, Lori N. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2006
This qualitative study examines the perceptions and responses of struggling ninth-grade readers who are teaching reading to struggling second- and third-grade students in a cross-age tutoring program. The program was designed to overcome the entrenched, negative affective barriers that older students often bring to the required reading class by…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Leadership, Role Models, Reading Ability
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Hohenshell, Liesl; Hand, Brian; Staker, Jay – American Biology Teacher, 2004
A writing task assigned to tenth grade students of a biotechnology unit is elaborated wherein they practiced literacy skills and demonstrated knowledge integration by communicating their understanding to seventh-grade students. The standards put forward by the National Research Council are fulfilled by such teaching strategies.
Descriptors: Grade 10, Teaching Methods, Literacy, Comprehension
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Davenport, Sandra V.; Arnold, Mitylene; Lassmann, Marie – Reading Improvement, 2004
The purpose of this study was to determine if cross-age peer tutoring of fifth graders with learning disabilities and kindergarten students would have an effect on reading attitudes and reading achievement. A tutoring program was designed to meet the literacy needs of fifth grade special education resource students as well as provide enriching…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Kindergarten, Reading Attitudes, Reading Achievement