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Bizzocchi, Jim; Tanenbaum, Joshua – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2012
Digital games have matured substantially as a narrative medium in the last decade. However, there is still much work to be done to more fully understand the poetics of story-based-games. Game narrative remains an important issue with significant cultural, economic and scholarly implications. In this article, we undertake a critical analysis of the…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Case Studies, Computer Games, Video Games
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Soodla, Piret; Kikas, Eve – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2010
Purpose: This study examined the macrostructure in Estonian children's narratives according to the story grammar (SG) model. The study's aims were to determine whether differences exist in narrative macrostructure between Estonian- and English-speaking children, among typically developed (TD) children, and between children with and without…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Story Telling, Story Grammar
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Petersen, Douglas B.; Gillam, Sandra Laing; Spencer, Trina; Gillam, Ronald B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2010
Purpose: This study investigated the effect of a literate narrative intervention on the macrostructural and microstructural language features of the oral narratives of 3 children with neuromuscular impairment and co-morbid receptive and expressive language impairment. Method: Three children, ages 6-8 years, participated in a multiple baseline…
Descriptors: Young Children, Intervention, Neurological Impairments, Language Impairments
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Love, Jessica; McKoon, Gail; Gerrig, Richard J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Current theories of text processing say little about how authors' narrative choices, including the introduction of small mysteries, can affect readers' narrative experiences. Gerrig, Love, and McKoon (2009) provided evidence that 1 type of small mystery--a character introduced without information linking him or her to the story--affects readers'…
Descriptors: Authors, Literary Devices, Story Grammar, Narration
Pegrum, Mark; Oakley, Grace; Lim, Cher Ping; Xiong, Xi Bei; Yan, Hanbing – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
This paper reflects on a 2013-2014 Australia-China Council project in which school students in Australia and China produced and shared digital stories about their everyday lives and local cultures, with students being invited to give feedback on the language and content of the stories produced by their overseas peers. The main lessons learned…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Cross Cultural Studies, Electronic Learning, Cultural Education
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Howells, Gary – Teaching History, 2011
How can we help pupils learn to read historically? Gary Howells explores this question by explaining how he builds reading challenges into the course of his pupils' post-16 studies and by describing some of the tasks that pupils are set and the principles that underpin them. Howells argues that over time and through stepped and scaffolded tasks,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History, Reading Skills, Historiography
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2011
In the first year of a pilot program, 18 New York City schools are digging into new ways to accomplish two objectives emphasized in the common-core standards: (1) engage students in increasingly complex texts as they move through school; and (2) help them conquer literacy skills specific to disciplines such as history and science. Spearheaded by…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Standards, Reader Text Relationship
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Thomas, P. L. – English Journal, 2011
In this high-accountability era--one in which there is an expanding movement to condemn teachers for the failures of their schools--teachers teach students who believe writing is primarily an act of complying to a prompt, likely for a state accountability assessment or the troubling 25-minute essay that constitutes less than half of the writing…
Descriptors: Accountability, Writing Instruction, Best Practices, Educational Practices
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Liu, Chen-Chung; Chen, Holly S. L.; Shih, Ju-Ling; Huang, Guo-Ting; Liu, Baw-Jhiune – Computers & Education, 2011
Storytelling is an imperative and innovative pathway to enhance learning due to the fact that such activity prompts learners to reflect to construct meaning based on their observations and knowledge. Therefore, to develop and enhance students' storytelling ability has become an important issue for both educators and researchers. Since storytelling…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Cognitive Processes, Story Grammar, Story Telling
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Feltis, Brooke B.; Powell, Martine B.; Snow, Pamela C.; Hughes-Scholes, Carolyn H. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2010
Objective: This study compared the effects of open-ended versus specific questions, and various types of open-ended questions, in eliciting story-grammar detail in child abuse interviews. Methods: The sample included 34 police interviews with child witnesses aged 5-15 years ("M" age = 9 years, 9 months). The interviewers' questions and their…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Child Abuse, Questioning Techniques, Interviews
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Vidotto, Kristie – English in Australia, 2010
In this article, the author shares her experience during the final semester of Year 11 Theatre Studies when she performed a monologue about Hermione from "The Winter's Tale". This experience was extremely significant to her because it nearly made her lose faith in one of the most important parts of her life, drama. She believes this…
Descriptors: Tales, Student Experience, Emotional Experience, Drama
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Crabb, Peter B.; Marciano, Deb L. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2011
This study tested the hypothesis that children's books accurately reflect the gender-based division of labor in the culture and historical period in which they were published. A content analysis was performed on illustrations in books that won the Caldecott Medal or Honor between 1990 and 2009. The final sample included 490 illustrations in 68 of…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Content Analysis, Sex Role, Followup Studies
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Modiba, Maropeng; Stewart, Sandra – Research in Education, 2013
In this paper we draw on theories of teaching English as a second language (L2) to examine ways in which a teacher taught a novel to Grade 9 students whose home language is not English. How this second language English-speaker engaged with and spoke about her teaching highlighted her understanding of the challenges students seemed to experience…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Novels, English Instruction
Gietz, Merrilee R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The effectiveness of using American Sign Language (ASL) handshape stories to teach word recognition in whole stories using a descriptive case study approach was explored. Four profoundly deaf children ages 7 to 8, enrolled in a self-contained deaf education classroom in a public school in the south participated in the story time five-week…
Descriptors: Deafness, American Sign Language, Word Recognition, Case Studies
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Ryan Hughes – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2013
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) lays out "a vision of what it means to be a literate person in the twenty-first century." Among educators, conversations about reading and writing have shifted to reflect the CCSS emphasis on informational, technical, opinion, and other non-narrative forms. Yet, these standards also demand that…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Fiction, Critical Thinking, State Standards
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