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Kontovourki, Stavroula – Reading Research Quarterly, 2012
This article examines the reading of leveled books and the assessment of students' reading levels in a public school classroom. The purpose of the research study was to examine how these processes of assessment, which often go unnoticed, shaped the ways reading and readers were defined. The research was located in a third grade, public school…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Grade 3, Reader Text Relationship, Difficulty Level
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Luykx, Aurolyn; Lee, Okhee; Edwards, Una – Educational Policy, 2008
Language ideologies shape educational practices in ways that can either limit or expand students' engagement with academic content. This article examines science lessons with third and fourth grade English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) students, focusing on (a) regular lessons, in which the monolingual teacher speaks English while a…
Descriptors: Ideology, Educational Practices, Monolingualism, Grade 4