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Zixi Li; Xiaoqian Niu; Botao Lu; Vincent Qiu; Ying-Chen Huang – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2023
This design case records a design competition project in which the team adapted various user experience (UX) design methodologies to instructional design in support of China's K-6 rural school teachers for the increasingly challenging teaching requirements on reading literacy. The solution landed on a mobile application design, YoungRead. The…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Rural Education, Reading Teachers, Reading Interests
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Alicia Abdul – Knowledge Quest, 2022
In this article, the author explores why a school librarian's value should be wrapped up in books. First, reading is a foundational skill, and memories are built around who people are before and who they are after reading a book. School librarians get to be a part of that transformation. Second, books still make up the heart of a physical library,…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Library Services, Reading Material Selection
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Spencer Salas; Maryann Mraz; Susan Green; Brian Keith Williams – English Teaching Forum, 2024
This article uses the Stephen Crane story "The Open Boat" (freely available on the American English website) as an anchor text to demonstrate how teachers can apply Raphael's Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) technique to a text that students might be assigned to read. The article includes numerous examples and tips that teachers can…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Responses, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods
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Svrcek, Natalie Sue; Abugasea Heidt, Marium – Literacy, 2022
Reading levels and levelled reading have been tried and true teaching tools used for assessment and to guide the teaching of reading in classrooms for decades. However, identifying students' reading levels does not necessarily lead to success in reading for students. In strictly adhering to an instructional routine based on reading levels and…
Descriptors: Well Being, Teaching Methods, Self Determination, Student Motivation
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Zucker, Tricia A.; Cabell, Sonia Q.; Pico, Danielle L. – Reading Teacher, 2021
Developing young children's vocabulary is essential for later reading success; thus, early childhood classrooms require a comprehensive vocabulary approach that teaches academic vocabulary. Yet even providing young children with child-friendly definitions of sophisticated words can be a challenge. First, the authors outline the components of a…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Academic Language, Direct Instruction
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William Sewell – Kansas English, 2021
Since pairing the classics with young adult literature can increase reading comprehension and spark interest amongst our students, this essay explores a unit plan for connecting Will Hobbs's "Downriver" (1991) with William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" (1954). Both works espouse significant and timely themes: the importance of…
Descriptors: Novels, English Instruction, Units of Study, Reading Comprehension