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Sherman, Khristine; Gabriel, Rachael – Reading Teacher, 2017
Reading and creating stories is a longstanding pedagogical approach to literacy learning in elementary school classrooms because stories offer personal and human experiences to which students can relate and respond. Stories, including digital forms such as short films, offer accounts of what it is to belong to a community and its worldviews and…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Word Problems (Mathematics), Elementary School Students, Grade 6
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Mantei, Jessica; Kervin, Lisa – Reading Teacher, 2017
Reading and creating stories is a longstanding pedagogical approach to literacy learning in elementary school classrooms because stories offer personal and human experiences to which students can relate and respond. Stories, including digital forms such as short films, offer accounts of what it is to belong to a community and its worldviews and…
Descriptors: Films, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education, Elementary School Students
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Daffern, Tessa – Reading Teacher, 2017
While learning to spell in English is integral to becoming a literate writer, it is a complex and gradual skill to master. If English spelling is understood from a phonological, orthographic, and morphological perspective, its transparency becomes evident. The case study described in this article shines a light on an Australian Year 4 classroom…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Spelling, Teaching Methods, Personal Autonomy
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Mills, Kathy A.; Sunderland, Naomi; Davis-Warra, John – Reading Teacher, 2014
This article explains how the speaking and listening practice of yarning circles can be used in the literacy classroom. The article opens with an account of a live enactment of yarning circles with elementary students in a mainstream classroom in Australia. It explains the purpose and origin of yarning circles in Indigenous communities, and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries