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Dutro, Elizabeth – Language Arts, 2009
Dutro discusses an analysis of the disconnect between the material realities of the lives of a group of third-grade children living in poverty and the middle-class assumptions of a district-mandated unit within a literacy curriculum. The analysis arose in the context of an ethnographic study of identity and classroom literacy practices; it was…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, Grade 3, Poverty, Economic Climate
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Garber, Susie – Language Arts, 1999
Reflects on how the author's third-grade students, experienced in literary conversation from their reading workshop, transferred the practice of literary conversation to their writing workshop. (SR)
Descriptors: Grade 3, Group Discussion, Language Arts, Primary Education
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Woolsey, Daniel P.; Burton, Frederick R. – Language Arts, 1986
Reports on participant-observation in a third- and fourth-grade classroom in which students learned to read science texts with both "efferent" and "aesthetic" reading processes. (HTH)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 4