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Williams, Heidi; Burns, Claudia; Daisey, Peggy – Grantee Submission, 2016
(Purpose) The purpose of this paper is to describe visual literacy and an adapted version of Visual Thinking Strategy (VTS) and its value to enhance students' inferential thinking. (Methodology) An example of a middle school VTS, art-integrated lesson is described as well as reflections of a middle school language arts teacher about what she…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Learning Strategies, Thinking Skills, Middle School Students
Sato, Edynn; Lagunoff, Rachel; Worth, Peter – Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, 2011
This report is a descriptive analysis of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), intended to determine which content is eligible for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium's end-of-year summative assessment for English language arts (ELA) and mathematics in grades 3-8 and high school. The high school standards analyzed were those in grades…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Content Analysis, Summative Evaluation, Mathematics
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Wilder, Hilary; Mongillo, Geraldine – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2007
This paper describes an experimental exploration of special procedures used in a game-like online expository writing experience that was designed to help preservice language arts teachers develop descriptive writing skills. Participants were asked to describe a target picture within a picture set to their cohorts in an online discussion in order…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Writing Skills, Preservice Teachers, Web Based Instruction