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Jessica L. Evankovich – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Grammar instruction and its role in writing proficiency have been the subject of long-standing controversy in literacy instruction. While traditional grammar instruction has been proven ineffective, many teachers still implement this approach due to a familiarity with the method or an insecurity in their grammar knowledge. Research instead points…
Descriptors: Grammar, English Instruction, Literacy Education, Middle School Teachers
Bret Bailey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative study was to provide school district leaders and policymakers information of the impact grade configuration had on academic performance using math and ELA ILEARN scores over a three-year period. The study included data from 585 schools that were classified into four groups: Elementary Setting, Intermediate Setting,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade 6, Data, Mathematics
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Reynolds, Todd – Studying Teacher Education, 2021
Five years after an initial self-study on my dialogic teaching practices in a teacher preparation course, I conducted a follow up study to see if I grew as a dialogic teacher in the same class. This article describes the a second self-study of my dialogic teaching practices in an English methods course, and compares findings with the initial…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Teaching Methods, Dialogs (Language), Teacher Education Programs
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Cavanna, Jillian M.; Pak, Byungeun; Jackson, Brent – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2021
Number talks, a popular mathematics teaching routine in the United States, may offer supports for beginning teachers (BTs) to engage in ambitious instruction. BTs' enactments of number talks, however, are varied, and there are few empirical studies that explore how BTs' enactment of number talks could be more (or less) ambitious. This paper draws…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Beginning Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Nash, Brady L.; Brady, Randi Beth – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
English language arts (ELA) teachers and literacy researchers are increasingly attending to the ways that digital technologies may be integrated into the curriculum. Video games, which now feature extensive narrative structures, interactive play systems, and complex multimodal semiotics, offer one avenue through which ELA teachers can expand upon…
Descriptors: Video Games, Secondary Education, Language Arts, English
Campbell, Patricia Shehan – American Educator, 2022
Music is an invaluable facet of everyday human life. Whether we are the music makers or someone else is "musicking" for us (in person or through our earbuds), we are drawn to it, touched by it, engaged in it, and often captivated by it. Adults and children alike spend a considerable chunk of their waking hours listening to music and…
Descriptors: Music, Psychological Patterns, Educational Strategies, Interpersonal Relationship
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Souto-Manning, Mariana; Martinez, Danny C.; Musser, Adam D. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
Racialized notions of language and literacy are harmful to children in U.S. schools, and English Language Arts is a primary site whereby white supremacist language ideologies are enacted and justified, being most harmful to Black, Indigenous, and other students of Color. The authors--Mariana Souto-Manning, Danny C. Martinez, and Adam D.…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Racism, Whites, Minority Group Students
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Marshall, Bethan – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
The article analyses in detail two lessons that were part of a larger research project on English teaching in Canada, England and Scotland. It considers whether the two English lessons are by their nature both dialogic and formative in practice. The research undertaken was carried out using arts-based criticism. It found that Eaglestone's notion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dialogs (Language), Feedback (Response), Language Arts
Fullmer, Lauren M.; Bond, Laura F.; Molyneaux, Crystal N.; Nayman, Samuel J.; Elias, Maurice J. – ASCD, 2022
We often hear that a key purpose of schooling is to prepare students for informed and active citizenship. But what does this look like in practice? How do teachers pursue this goal amid other pressing priorities, including student mastery of both academic content and social-emotional competencies? "Students Taking Action Together," based…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Citizen Participation, Democracy, Elementary Secondary Education
Scott, Skylette Bernice – ProQuest LLC, 2022
From the beginning of American history, disparity and inequity have existed in American society. This applies especially in the realm of education. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic surfaced in America. Adding to the already existing history of systemic educational oppression, the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the many underserved and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Rural Areas, Language Arts
McCullough, Moira; Dotter, Dallas; Burnett, Alyson; Sutton-Heisey, Rachel; Forde, Jasmine; Carrillo-Perez, Amanda – Mathematica, 2022
Uncommon Schools is a nonprofit charter management organization that starts and manages public charter schools, primarily in traditionally underserved communities. As part of a 2016 grant awarded to Uncommon from the U.S. Department of Education's Charter Schools Program to support replication and expansion of its school model, we conducted a…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Outcomes of Education, Middle Schools, Academic Achievement
Kristen Marie Braatz – ProQuest LLC, 2022
There is tension in the current curricular landscape, particularly for the field of English language arts (ELA). The majority of ELA teachers do not closely follow a district-adopted curriculum (Kaufman et al., 2020; Opfer et al., 2016). Further, recent studies by RAND found that nearly all teachers report supplementing with instructional…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, English Teachers, Language Arts, Supplementary Education
Sarah M. Galvin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Social media are some of the most used digital composition tools by both youth and adults yet authoring in digital spaces remains undervalued and digital literacy education remains misaligned with workplace needs and expectations. Using a multiple case study design (n=3) to explore the authorship of pre-service English/ELA teachers on social media…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Authors, Self Concept, Social Media
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Patterson, Ashley N. – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to illustrate how one-sixth grade language arts teacher transforms the theory of culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) into practice, an effort made visible through classroom discourse. Design/methodology/approach: This classroom discourse inquiry is guided by tools of reconstructive discourse analysis which encourage a…
Descriptors: Language Arts, English Teachers, Grade 6, Culturally Relevant Education
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Gabas, Clariebelle; Cabell, Sonia Q.; Copp, Stefanie B.; Campbell, Mary – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2023
This study described the features of writing instruction in widely used kindergarten English Language Arts programs and examined their alignment with evidence-based, best-practice guidelines. Three popular curricula were selected for analyses: Reading Wonders, Journeys, and Reading Street. Our coding of teacher manuals focused on instructional…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Writing Instruction, Evidence Based Practice, English Instruction
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