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Erin Nerlino – Educational Action Research, 2024
Despite the value of reading, research documents declining reading rates among American adolescents - a decline that exacerbates student dropout rates and academic performance. As a high school English teacher in a public, regional, suburban school, increasing the number of students who deeply read the assigned texts for class has been a…
Descriptors: Reading, Public Schools, Suburban Schools, Reading Assignments
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Johnny B. Allred; Sean P. Connors; Christian Z. Goering – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
This research study explores the role of social annotation in supporting dialogic teaching in secondary English language arts. Grounded in Bakhtin's dialogism and building upon research into online discussion, this study describes how a high school English teacher and her students used a digital annotation tool to read and talk about texts.…
Descriptors: Language Arts, English Teachers, Dialogs (Language), Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Kumar, Tracey – Multicultural Education, 2022
Within secondary English language arts (ELA), concerns about the use of whitestream curricula have fueled numerous studies regarding the authorship of works included in anthologies (Applebee, 1991; Hansen, 2005; Mikkelson, 2009; Pace, 1992; Rojas, 2010) and on the lists of required full-length titles (e.g., Applebee, 1989; Hoffman, 2007;…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11
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Massó, Marisol – Multicultural Perspectives, 2023
This article presents popular misconceptions on teaching culturally relevant books and provides strategies that can inform the search, selection, and teaching of books in culturally responsive ways. Informed by relevant research and insights gained from collaboratively teaching a children's literature course at college level, I discuss how the…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Misconceptions, Educational Strategies, Reading Material Selection
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Cati V. de los Ríos – English Journal, 2016
It is imperative that in conversations about literacy instruction teachers incorporate curriculum dedicated to youth empowerment, especially for emergent bilingual and LGBTQ youth, as recognizing and honoring students' linguistic and epistemic privileges entails taking their claims about the world seriously. In this article, the author discusses…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, High School Students, Hispanic American Literature, Critical Thinking
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Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2008
This article presents annotations of 30 trade books on the 2008 list of Young Adults' Choices that are the result of voting by students in five different regions of the United States. Trade books (books other than textbooks) published in 2006 were submitted by more than 50 publishers. Each book had to have at least two positive reviews from…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Young Adults, Adolescent Attitudes