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Secker, Jane; Tilley, Elizabeth – Journal of Information Literacy, 2022
Reports on a panel discussion held at LILAC 2022 on student academic reading during the COVID-19 pandemic. Draws on data from two surveys, but also discusses the implications of this research for teachers and information literacy (IL) practitioners. In summary, students carried out almost all their academic reading in electronic format, due to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Content Area Reading, COVID-19
Tsai, Shuo-Chang; Wang, Shu-Yu; Lai, Hui-Ping – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2022
This study focuses on developing an effective online teaching strategy to improve students' cognition engagement and application ability by applying design thinking and case readings on current economic issues for private university students in Taiwan during the COVID-19 pandemic. The teaching method combines design thinking and the reading…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Online Courses
Kevin Presnell – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This case study describes a professional learning opportunity for educators of adolescents, namely the Literacy for Adolescent Teachers (LAT), at a regional midsize university in Kentucky. The LAT is a year-long experience that enrollees undertake to grow professionally by gaining specific literacy skills. This study focuses specifically on…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, State Programs, Case Studies, Content Area Reading
Fisher, Rick – Reading Research Quarterly, 2019
A persisting gap in the field of disciplinary literacy is lack of conceptual clarity around the term "discipline." In this theoretical article, the author explains some concerns with existing definitional imprecision and argues that genre-oriented activity theory offers a way to reconceptualize the focus of disciplinary literacy,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Literacy, Literary Genres, Academic Language
Mino, Jack J.; Trobaugh, Elizabeth; Winters, Steven; Dutcher, James – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2019
An integrative tool that we have piloted in two LCs, the interdisciplinary index, is an integrative template that students use to make connections between disciplines. In the learning community, "Cli-Fi: Stories and Science of the Coming Climate Apocalypse," faculty developed the Climate-Change Stress Index (CCSI) that students used to…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Climate, Conservation (Environment), Ecology
Colwell, Jamie – Reading Teacher, 2019
The author focuses on selecting texts for disciplinary literacy instruction in elementary grades. Disciplinary literacy instruction is a promising approach to engage students in socially and culturally relevant learning, and the selection of a variety of informational texts is important to planning this type of instruction. Currently, most…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Material Selection, Reading Instruction, Culturally Relevant Education
Sara Thompson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education programs focus on growing the STEM workforce. The problem is many middle and high school students in Texas require support from the STEM teacher to comprehend complex science texts. Research shows interest in science begins to decline in adolescence leading to a shortage of employees to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Middle School Teachers, High School Teachers, Middle School Students
O'Byrne, W. Ian; Savitz, Rachelle S.; Morrison, Jennifer; Kane, Britnie; Lilly, Todd; Ming, Kavin Michelle; Aldrich, Charlene – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2021
Nationally published research suggests middle and high school educators are often experts within their respective disciplines, but they may be unprepared to effectively consider literacy needs and ways to incorporate literacy within their discipline. To better understand teachers' perceived capabilities in their ability to teach and incorporate…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Test Construction, Test Validity, Content Area Reading
Miarsyah, Mieke; Ristanto, Rizhal Hendi; Lestari, Puji; Rahayu, Sri – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
Pteridophyte classification has undergone many changes both from morphology as well as phylogeny aspects. Thus, a variety of learning experiences are required to promote understanding on concepts and managing learning activities--this study aimed at determining the impact of CIRGI and CirGi Unification on students' metacognitive skills. A…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Thinking Skills, Classification, Plants (Botany)
Seifert, Susanne – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2021
The range of teaching materials now available is becoming increasingly diverse. Despite this, however, the use and influence of textbooks in teaching still remains very high. When instructing reading comprehension, teachers often use textbooks as the basis for teaching in language lessons. Establishing a good match between textbooks and the skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
Boakye, Naomi A. Y. – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2021
Background: Many first-year students find the reading of academic texts to be challenging and overwhelming. In particular, first-year students studying sociology at the South African institution where the study was conducted complain of comprehension challenges. This may be due to the presence of numerous theoretical and abstract concepts in…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Direct Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Student Attitudes
Ristanto, Rizhal Hendi; Rahayu, Sri; Mutmainah, Sri – Participatory Educational Research, 2021
The excretory system should be taught through constructivism so as conceptual understanding could be built well, and students could apply their knowledge in daily life. The research aims to find out the influence of a learning model of Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) based on scientific approach (Cirsa) on conceptual…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Cooperative Learning, Scientific Concepts
Redford, Kyle – Educational Leadership, 2020
Elementary-level teacher Redford dispels the idea that instructional time should not be spent teaching content material because content is now Googleable. As research shows, background knowledge significantly influences basic comprehension, even in very young students; students need a core of background knowledge to decipher texts and understand…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension, Elementary Education, Oral Reading
Capin, Philip; Stevens, Elizabeth A.; Stewart, Alicia A.; Swanson, Elizabeth; Vaughn, Sharon – Grantee Submission, 2020
Teaching vocabulary and reading comprehension during social studies instruction is critical for reading development and the acquisition of content knowledge. This study systematically investigated how elementary teachers integrate vocabulary and reading comprehension instruction during social studies teaching, as well as the extent to which this…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Teachers, Reading Instruction
Murray-Orr, Anne; Mitton, Jennifer – Cogent Education, 2023
The findings of this inquiry emerged from a research study conducted over two years in two schools investigating how teachers support learners from populations who have been historically underserved by a provincial education system in Canada. Emerging from a focus on how teachers in four rural middle school classrooms supported literacy…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Rural Schools, Middle School Teachers, Literacy Education