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"Teacher, Teacher, Can't Catch Me!": Teaching Vocabulary and Grammar Using Nursery Rhymes to Children for Whom English Is an Additional Language
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Concannon-Gibney, Tara – Reading Teacher, 2021
Children who are learning English as an additional language (EAL) need opportunities to learn English in playful, engaging ways. Nursery rhymes offer an effective forum to explore a wide range of vocabulary and grammar knowledge in a manner that is comprehensible to EAL pupils by using gestures, visuals, and props to support oral language…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, English Language Learners, Teaching Methods, Nursery Rhymes
"Children Who Speak in Their Parents' Clichés": Exploring the Broader Social Relationship between Cultural Practices and Teacher Identity in Lithuanian Holocaust Education
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Beresniova, Christine – European Education, 2019
This article examines how broader cultural practices influence teachers teaching the Holocaust in Lithuania. This article uses the concept of the "cultural curriculum" to examine how community "stories" intersect with formal education. It finds that teachers feel they have become responsible for challenging long-standing…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Jews, Death, European History
What Are Preschool Teachers Reading in Their Classrooms?
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Pentimonti, Jill M.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Justice, Laura M. – Reading Psychology, 2011
The present study describes preschool read-alouds in terms of the types of texts to which children are exposed. The methods involved analyzing the genre and instructional foci of 426 titles read by 13 teachers throughout an entire academic year. Additionally, associations between teacher characteristics and texts teachers read in their classrooms…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Reading Aloud to Others, Preschool Teachers, Nursery Rhymes
Asian Linkages in Children's Writing and Writing for Children
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Geok-Lin Lim, Shirley – World Englishes, 2010
Reflecting on the influence of English nursery rhyme poems on one individual Asian child's language development, the paper reviews current studies on the socio-cultural dynamics of creativity, to examine how these theoretical and empirical investigations may help shape specific pedagogical practices in the expressive language arts in a Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Creative Writing, Rhyme, Foreign Countries
The Use of British Nursery Rhymes and Contemporary Technology as Venues for Creating and Expressing Hidden Literacies throughout Time by Children, Adolescents, and Adults
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Hazlett, Lisa A. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2009
Power and status are captivating, especially the desire for social status and its commensurate authority and security. Cliques, smaller clusters within larger peer groups sharing similar views, behaviors, and attitudes, are a means of attaining societal power. Because cliques are typically composed of the disenfranchised holding views different…
Descriptors: Social Status, Power Structure, Nursery Rhymes, Hidden Curriculum
(Un)Happily Ever after: Fairy Tale Morals, Moralities, and Heterosexism in Children's Texts
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Lester, Neal A. – Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 2007
This essay explores the physical, emotional, and spiritual manifestations of heterosexism in childhood education. While there is abundant children's literature dealing with gay and lesbian parents of presumably straight children, little exists in this literature that directly addresses a child's developing gay, lesbian, or bisexual orientations.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes, Social Bias