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Paugh, Patricia; Moran, Mary – Language Arts, 2013
For four years, Pat Paugh, a university teacher educator, and Mary Moran, a teacher researcher, collaborated on action research by systematically studying literacy development connected to the latter's third-grade community gardening and urban farming curriculum. Their goal was to support an existing classroom culture that valued…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Communities of Practice, Urban Schools, Neighborhoods
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Dutro, Elizabeth – Language Arts, 2009
Dutro discusses an analysis of the disconnect between the material realities of the lives of a group of third-grade children living in poverty and the middle-class assumptions of a district-mandated unit within a literacy curriculum. The analysis arose in the context of an ethnographic study of identity and classroom literacy practices; it was…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, Grade 3, Poverty, Economic Climate