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Cecilia Kim Yoon – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In a time of rapid change and uncertainty, the skills that students must acquire are becoming more focused on creativity. Correspondingly, the development of students' creative competency should be addressed and implemented in curriculum. The purpose of the study is to examine how the content of a curriculum material, specifically an elementary…
Descriptors: Creativity, Grade 5, Textbooks, Elementary School Students
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Beerwinkle, Andrea L.; Owens, Julie; Hudson, Alida – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2021
This study examined the comprehension skills and strategies presented in current reading textbooks used within the United States as a means of describing a contributor to the ecological component of reading. The ways in which comprehension skills and strategies are distributed across genres as well as connected to the National Reading Panel…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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Ciecierski, Lisa M.; Bintz, William P. – Reading Teacher, 2018
This article presents the concept of tri-texts as a potential next step from paired texts following a collaborative inquiry with fifth-grade students. Paired texts are two texts intertextually connected, whereas tri-texts are three texts connected this way. The authors begin the article with a short literature review highlighting some of the…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Grade 5, Teaching Methods, Text Structure
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Emerson, Robert Wall; Anderson, Dawn – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2018
Introduction: Visually impaired students (that is, those who are blind or have low vision) have difficulty accessing curricular material in mathematical textbooks because many mathematics texts have visual images that contain important content information that are not transcribed or described in digital versions of the texts. However, little is…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics, Textbooks, Visual Impairments
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Opoku-Amankwa, Kwasi; Brew-Hammond, Aba; Kofigah, Francis Elsbend – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2011
This paper investigates three English textbooks for primary classes 4, 5 and 6 in Ghana from the "Gateway to English for Primary Schools" series, and their complementary teachers' guides, in order to determine the assumptions about teaching and learning which the books embody. The paper pays particular attention to the approach to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Textbooks, English