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Enriquez, Grace – Children's Literature in Education, 2022
What can the affective turn mean for literacy educators who believe their work can lay the foundation for a life filled with meaningful reading pursuits, for students who "become" readers and "do" reading? Because reading occurs across and within an elaborate composite of time, space, relationships, histories, discourses, and…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Emotional Response, Reader Response
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Brady, Susan; Gillis, Margie; Smith, Tara; Lavalette, MaryEllen; Liss-Bronstein, Linda; Lowe, Evelyn; North, Wendy; Russo, Evelyn; Wilder, T. Diane – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
The study examined the efficacy of an intensive form of professional development (PD) for building the knowledge of first-grade teachers in the areas of phonological awareness and phonics. The PD featured frequent in-class support from highly knowledgeable mentors for one school year, in addition to an introductory two-day summer institute and…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Phonics, Self Efficacy, Phonological Awareness
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Foley, Margaret M. – Language Arts, 2000
Looks critically at the theoretical and ideological underpinnings of the practice of story mapping. Discovers a deep contradiction between the author's definition of reading as a constructive process and the reductionist nature of story mapping, which inhibits students' potential to explore a diverse range of personal responses by promoting…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Ideology, Literature Appreciation, Primary Education
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Sychterz, Terre – New Advocate, 2002
Discusses the controversial work of Maurice Sendak, a popular, yet controversial children's author and illustrator. Examines the oral responses of a class of first graders to "We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy," with the purpose of demonstrating that children can act as their own agents in constructing meaning through complex…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Critical Thinking, Grade 1
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Pantaleo, Sylvia – Journal of Children's Literature, 2002
Describes the oral, written, and visual arts responses of a group of Grade 1 children. Discusses first grade children's understandings of and responses to several Radical Change characteristics and metafictive techniques found in David Wiesner's "The Three Pigs" (2001), the 2002 Randolph Caldecott Medal winner. Explores the nature of the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Critical Thinking, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Grade 1
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Sipe, Lawrence R. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1998
Summarizes a descriptive naturalistic study of the literary competence of a class of first and second graders as suggested by their responses during read-alouds of picture books. Finds that the children were sophisticated literary critics, and the storybook read-aloud situation was an important site for the development of their literary…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Grade 1, Grade 2, Literary Criticism
Kosanovich, Marcia L. – 1996
A study examined evidence that first graders are able to analyze and respond to picture books. The study resulted from the collaboration of an eighth-grade class and a first-grade class. The eighth graders were given the task of writing, illustrating, and reading a picture book for the first graders. The first-grade class was randomly divided into…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cooperative Learning, Creative Writing, Grade 1