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Kidd, Julie K.; Pasnak, Robert; Curby, Timothy W.; Ferhat, Caroline Boyer; Gadzichowski, K. Marinka; Gallington, Debbie A.; Machado, Jessica – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
The present research represents a test of the effect of adding seriation instruction to oddity instruction to produce an advantage in both forms of abstraction. Pasnak et al. (2007) and Kidd, Pasnak, Gadzichowski, Ferral-Like, & Gallington (2008) have shown that at risk kindergartners profit academically from instruction in both oddity and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Curriculum, Numeracy
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Lu, Lucia Y. – English Language Teaching, 2010
In a graduate literacy course, the author as the teacher educator conceptualized "Visual Literacy" into the course. In-service and pre-service teachers from inner-city schools in Georgia and Virginia invited struggling writers to create graphic novels by envisioning life activities, using drawings, and invented spellings as well as…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Graduate Study, Writing Instruction, Novels
Husband, Katherine M. – 1994
A study investigated the effects of art expression on self-concept of low-reading first-grade students. Subjects, five low-readers and five on- or above-grade-level first graders from central Virginia, were pretested for self-concept, instructed in a two-week art-book making intervention, and posttested with the same instrument. Results indicated…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Expression, Elementary School Students, Grade 1