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Manyak, Patrick C.; Manyak, Ann-Margaret – Reading Teacher, 2021
The authors describe Literary Analysis and Writing, an integrated instructional routine, developed through a formative experiment research project, that prompts students to uncover the deeper meanings of literary texts. The routine weaves together brief preteaching of carefully selected vocabulary words, whole-class assisted reading of text, close…
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Writing Instruction, Formative Evaluation, Vocabulary
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Tataroglu, Eylem – Educational Research and Reviews, 2019
Turkey's Ministry of National Education aims to identify and develop valuable characteristics to prepare the nation's young for their professional life as adults. The Ministry has been conducting an extensive and comprehensive review of the educational system since the beginning of 2000. Educational system was implemented in time for the 2012/2013…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Visual Arts, National Curriculum
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Boerman-Cornell, William – Reading Teacher, 2016
This study analyzes how second, third, and fourth graders in a racially integrated suburban school engaged in multimodal meaning making in the context of a book club discussing Ben Hatke's graphic novel "Zita the Spacegirl." Qualitative analysis of field notes and assessments indicated three overall findings: First, students responded to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4
Shrestha, Prithvi Narayan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2013
English language teaching (ELT) has been investigated from various angles including how English language teachers perceive what happens in an ELT classroom. How primary school English language learners perceive their experiences of ELT is rarely reported in the published literature, particularly from developing countries such as Bangladesh. This…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Teachers
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Ajayi, Lasisi – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate how Hispanic ESL/literacy learners used their socio-historical experiences and multimodal resources to mediate interpretation and representation of "Cinderella". Eighteen third-grade pupils "read" the video and re-created their understandings in pictures and sentences. The findings suggest that (a)…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Sentences, Popular Culture, Criticism
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Nilsen, Elizabeth S.; Glenwright, Melanie; Huyder, Vanessa – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2011
Incongruity between a positive statement and a negative context is a cue to verbal irony. Two studies examined whether school-age children and adults recognized that listeners require knowledge of context to detect irony. Specifically, the studies investigated whether participants could inhibit their own context knowledge to appropriately gauge…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Cues, Verbal Communication, Theory of Mind
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Turkcan, Burcin; Yasar, Sefik – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
Visual culture studies have become the focus of research in recent years mainly due to the frequent use of art applications in Visual Arts courses in primary schools and the inadequate content of discipline based art education for the interpretation of today's multiple stimulants. By interrogating students' semantic stratums related to visuals,…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Research Design, Visual Arts, Action Research
Campoli, Ashley Jimerson – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Leadership style and professional learning have been linked to student achievement. Studies have linked leadership styles such as distributed leadership to job-embedded professional learning. However, research is mixed when these two constructs are related to student achievement. This study evaluated the relationship between distributed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Leadership Styles, Administrators, Leadership
Livy, Sharyn – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2010
This paper draws on observation of a primary mathematics lesson prepared and taught by a second-year pre-service teacher who lacked mathematical content knowledge. A "knowledge quartet" (Rowland, Turner, Thwaites, & Huckstep, 2009) was used to investigate when and how a pre-service teacher drew on their knowledge of mathematics during primary…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 3, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Phillips, Lauren C. – Arts & Activities, 2009
During the author's undergraduate experience at the University of Georgia, the author discovered a local artist named Beverly Buchanan. She creates beautiful pastel drawings of shacks. Her shacks are not sad houses, but rich, vibrant dwellings filled with memories of people who once lived there. Buchanan also creates sculptures of shacks made from…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Studio Art, Art Products, Grade 2
van Belle, Leah Allison – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Basal readers have long been problematized for a lack of diversity among the characters and experiences represented in the text selections. Building on this, and informed by critical theory, critical race theory, and Bourdieuian perspectives, this dissertation examines racist discourses in a set of third grade basal readers. In order to explore…
Descriptors: African Americans, Critical Theory, Basal Reading, Numeracy
Fealy, Erin Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this case study research was to explore the effects of explicit instruction of graphic organizers to support students' understandings of informational text. An additional purpose was to investigate students' perceptions of using graphic organizers as a comprehension strategy. Using case study methodology, this study occurred…
Descriptors: Evidence, Educational Strategies, Suburban Schools, Reading Comprehension
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Groth, Randall E.; Burgess, Claudia R. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2009
Online conversations help teachers engage in constructive criticism and attend more carefully to aligning lesson plans with problem solving. This article describes a strategy for using an online discussion board to help teachers evaluate one another's lesson plans. The online peer-review activity suggests that fostering critical pedagogical…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Lesson Plans, Criticism, Peer Evaluation
Faryadi, Qais – Online Submission, 2008
This Study evaluated the effectiveness of the Arabic language multimedia products existing in Malaysian markets. For the purpose of careful investigation, this research has applied blended models of the most trusted instructional design based on the field-tested theories of the most outspoken educational psychologists such as Mayer (2002), Keller…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Check Lists, Instructional Design, Investigations
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Wisneski, Debora Basler – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
Countries around the world have identified early childhood education as a major priority in providing the foundation for inclusive democratic participation. In US early childhood practice, creating a classroom community is recognised as a part of "quality" education and a means to teach democratic principles. The purpose of this qualitative study…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Democracy, Case Studies, Grade 3
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