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Frankel, Susan L.; Olshansky, Beth; Yang, Jiaxiu – Grantee Submission, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of two innovative, art-and-literature-based approaches to teaching writing (Picturing Writing: Fostering Literacy Through Art and Image-Making Within The Writing Process) on elementary school students' writing, visual literacy, and reading skills. RMC Research Corporation of Portsmouth, New…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Writing Instruction, Literature, Teaching Methods
Bisland, Beverly Milner – Online Submission, 2008
In this study a group of elementary teachers use illustrations, rather than written text, to introduce their students to the peoples and places of the ancient silk routes. The illustrations are from two picture books; "Marco Polo," written by Gian Paolo Cesaerani and illustrated by Piero Ventura (1977), and "We're Riding on a…
Descriptors: Illustrations, World History, Picture Books, History Instruction
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Martens, Vanessa E. G.; de Jong, Peter F. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
Research with adults has shown that the distortion of visual word features, and in particular of the multiletter features within words, hampers word recognition. In this study, "CaSe MiXiNg" was employed to examine the effect of disrupting visual word features on the acquisition of orthographic knowledge in children. During the training, 18…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Word Recognition, Reading Rate, Spelling