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Kaitlyn Culiton; Lourdes M. Marquez; Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
This study analyzes the outcomes of a service-learning course where Latinas in a higher education setting created a 16-page children's book for at-risk students as part of their education coursework in a regional public Hispanic-serving institution (HSI). There is a well-documented lack of Latina/o/x representation in children's literature, which…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cultural Pluralism, Writing (Composition), Hispanic American Students
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Bercaw, Lynne; Colby, Susan; Pacifici, Linda; Oldendorf, Sandra; Groce, Robin; Groce, Eric – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2006
The topic of migrant workers is commonplace among headlines in the national news, but such workers have been part of the United States economy for at least seventy-five years, as can be seen in decades of enrollment records in K-12 schools. In this article, the authors discuss an integrated unit of study which integrates language arts and social…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Migrant Workers, Language Arts, Social Studies
Garcia, Maripaz – Online Submission, 2004
Background: Integrating reading in foreign language (FL) classes is sometimes a difficult task because of lack of appropriate methodology and poor textbook support. In addition, college students find many readings too difficult to understand or not interesting. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how a teacher-researcher…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies