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Hood, Lucy – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
To platoon or not to platoon? That's the question facing Irving Hamer, Deputy Superintendent of Academic Operations, Technology and lnnovation for the Memphis City Schools. This year for the first time, the state's achievement test, Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP), will include algebraic concepts on the 5th-grade test. Of the…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Mathematics Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Algebra
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Gebhard, Meg; Harman, Ruth; Seger, Wendy – Language Arts, 2007
Using a case study approach, the authors describe how a teacher used the tools of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to teach her fifth grade English Language Learners how to use academic language to challenge school policies regarding recess. In reflecting on these data, we discuss the potential of SFL to support teachers in responding to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 5, Case Studies, Academic Discourse