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Leah R. Cheek; Vinson Carter; Michael K. Daugherty; Christian Z. Goering – Reading Teacher, 2024
Empathy, an unsung, yet critical element of learning, can be strategically interlaced with literacy instruction and engineering design to create a rich and authentic learning experience for students. Integrated STEM education rests on the promise of engaging students and providing deep understandings through the intentional practice of delivering…
Descriptors: Empathy, STEM Education, Literacy Education, Engineering Education
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Çetin, Hakan; Çetin, Seyma Cihan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
The purpose of this research is to examine the effect of story wheel method on creative writing skills, story elements information and word number. The research was designed as an experimental model. It consisted of seven weeks, including pre and post tests. The research group consisted of 13 third grade students attending at a school in Siirt…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Writing Skills, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Kirby, Megan S.; Spencer, Trina D.; Chen, Yi-Jui Iva – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
Writing is a critical literacy skill that emerges in kindergarten. The research literature has only addressed transcription skills of kindergarteners and has failed to address text generation. The purpose of this action-research study was to investigate the effect of oral language instruction that focused on narrative text structures on…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Writing Instruction, Program Effectiveness, Oral Language
Lori Ann Compagnone Dunn – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Improving reading comprehension for middle school students with disabilities and others who struggle with reading, referred to here as striving readers, is challenging. Formal reading instruction typically shifts from skills acquisition to application in middle and high school, providing inadequate support in the skills for comprehension (Chall,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Scripts, Films, Intervention
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Aneesa Jamal; Abubakr Mohammed Jamal; Sanitah Mohd Yusof – Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
This small study reveals the value of story writing as a pedagogical technique in environmental education. The qualitative research conducted in 2020 examines 14 Indian children's place-ecological meaning as expressed in the story books they authored. Thematic analysis of the story books, interviews, journals, creative writing assignments &…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Childrens Writing, Story Grammar, Environmental Education
Youssef, Reham Ahmed – Online Submission, 2019
The aim of this paper is to review the story grammar approach to teaching and learning EFL/ESL literature. The paper presents the different reasons and benefits of using literature in EFL/ESL classrooms and the different approaches to teaching literature. The paper focuses on using the Story Grammar Approach. It describes in detail the structure…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Smadja, Marie-Lyne; Aram, Dorit; Ziv, Margalit – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2019
The authors compared the discourse of 100 Israeli preschool teachers with a group of children during three book-sharing contexts: reading, reconstruction, and telling. During telling and reconstruction, the teachers used more utterances and questions and referred more to concept of book and to the illustrations. During reading, they referred more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Story Reading
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McCrocklin, Shannon; Slater, Tammy – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2017
This article introduces an approach that middle-school teachers can follow to help their students carry out linguistic-based literary analyses. As an example, it draws on Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) to show how J.K. Rowling used language to characterize Hermione as an intelligent female in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Story Grammar, Teaching Methods, Text Structure
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Thomas, M'Balia – Teacher Educator, 2018
The following exploratory study examines the effects of a "Harry Potter"-inspired "border crossing" analogy (HPBCA) on preservice teachers' (n = 25) Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) content knowledge and disposition toward English language learners (ELLs). The analogy capitalizes on the prior and shared…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Methods Courses, Preservice Teachers, English (Second Language)
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Petersen, Douglas B.; Mesquita, Meredith W.; Spencer, Trina D.; Waldron, Jessica – Topics in Language Disorders, 2020
This early-stage feasibility study investigated the effects of a multitiered oral narrative language intervention on oral language, reading comprehension, and writing. Twenty-eight second-grade students participated in this quasi-experimental control group study with assignment at the classroom level. The independent variable was large- and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Reading Comprehension, Pretests Posttests, Phrase Structure
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Zhang, Kunkun; Djonov, Emilia; Torr, Jane – Children's Literature in Education, 2016
"Bookaboo" is a television programme aiming to promote literacy and reading among young children. In each episode, a celebrity reads a book to Bookaboo, a dog who plays the drums in a rock band, in order to help him overcome stage fright. Using the episode featuring the picture book (Cowell and Layton in "That Rabbit Belongs to…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Childrens Television, Young Children, Emergent Literacy
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Witte, Priscilla G. – Reading Teacher, 2016
This formative and design study examined how the Complex Text Analysis (CTA) instructional approach provided support for first-grade students to increase their comprehension of texts of increasing complexity. The students in the diverse class participated in weekly lessons during which fictional texts were read aloud and analyzed in terms of key…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Grade 1, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods
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Thomas, Angela – English in Australia, 2016
According to Peha (2016), fiction is all about character. What a character wants, how they go about getting it, and how they change throughout the trajectory of the narrative are key factors that drive a story and make it meaningful. This paper integrates strategies from both narratology (Nikolajeva, 2002; 2005; Rimmon-Kenan, 2002) and linguistics…
Descriptors: Functional Literacy, Fiction, Story Grammar, Novels
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Traga Philippakos, Zoi A.; Munsell, Sarah; Robinson, Logan – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2019
The purpose of this study was to design and evaluate an instructional approach that combined strategy instruction with principles of dialogic pedagogy to improve the story writing of students in grades K-2 (n = 219). Specifically, drama, dialogic interactions, and oral retellings assisted learners with ideation, while strategies guided their…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Literacy Education, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods
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Alves, Kat D.; Kennedy, Michael J.; Brown, Tiara S.; Solis, Michael – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2015
"Reading comprehension" is difficult for many students with disabilities, including those with specific learning disabilities. However these students can be explicitly taught strategies to improve their comprehension abilities. One such strategy is teaching students story grammar in order to provide them with a framework for…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, Grade 3
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