The Use of Responses to Reading as a Vehicle to Opinion Writing in the...
Writing to persuade is an important writing purpose that students and learners need to develop and use both in their academic lives and in the workplace. The Common Core State Standards set specific...
View ArticlePartnering for Professional Development
Literacy specialists are often overlooked when determining the professional development needs within a school, and yet they are arguably the school’s best resource to empower teachers with...
View ArticlePreparing Today to Empower Future Learners: Pre-service teachers’ experiences...
The use of quality texts in elementary classrooms plays a major role in children’s literacy development. Quality children’s literature helps learners develop into skilled readers and writers with...
View ArticleConstructing a Sense of Story: One Block at a Time
This photo essay focuses upon the literacy practices of two groups of preschoolers as they built, illustrated, and dictated stories in response to their participation in a “Castle Project.” Data,...
View ArticleEngaging Students in the Research Process: Comparing Approaches Used with...
This paper describes instructional choices used by two high school teachers to engage students in the research process. Working with diverse learners in large urban high schools, the teachers used...
View ArticleMeasuring Our Impact: What Did Our Attendees Think of Our Conference?
Peers evaluated conference presentations at an annual conference that is sponsored by two professional organizations of literacy educators in one geographic location in New York State. Conference...
View ArticleReview of Young Meaning Makers Teaching Comprehension, Grades K-2
The Common Core Curriculum State Standards for teaching literature and informational texts provide a clear understanding of what students are expected to learn during comprehension instruction. Young...
View ArticleReview of RTI in the Common Core Classroom: A Framework for Instruction and...
This book review supports “The Power of Literacy” through a second look at Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and how CCSS can be implemented through the framework of Response to Intervention (RTI)....
View ArticleSupporting Primary Students’ Story Writing by Including Retellings, Talk, and...
Story writing and story grammar have been studied extensively in an effort to improve students’ reading comprehension. Instruction on story structure and on elements of stories can improve the writing...
View ArticleTackling Literacy: A collaborative approach to developing materials, for...
Abstract: Secondary science teachers outline strategies for developing, presenting, and assessing literacy skills in the content based classroom. A content-area literacy assessment was administered to...
View ArticleTransferable Digital Literacy Knowledge
Expectations of teachers’ digital literacy knowledge have grown dramatically in the recent past. By many measures, it is an exciting time to be teacher! It is also quite daunting, as changes in...
View ArticleHow Teachers Can Guide Library Book Selection to Maximize the Value of...
This article shares a classroom application to support literacy development through a teacher-librarian guided book selection program. Twenty students participated in the program which demonstrated...
View ArticleReview of Think Big with Think Alouds: A Three-step Planning Process That...
In Think Big with Think Alouds: A Three-step Planning Process That Develops Strategic Readers (2017), Molly K. Ness provides classroom teachers with a detailed three-step process for developing think...
View ArticleUsing Primary Sources in Content Areas to Increase Disciplinary Literacy...
This paper describes how a three-day summer workshop on using primary sources helped teachers increase the emphasis placed on disciplinary literacy when teaching social studies and history. Two...
View ArticleMotion, matter, force, and writing???: Creating space for writing in a...
This qualitative case study was an in-depth exploration into how writing may facilitate disciplinary literacy in an eleventh grade physics classroom. In response to the dearth of writing instruction...
View ArticleSentence Construction: Supporting Elementary Students’ Editing Skills
Syntactic control is a necessary skill for quality writing and a needed knowledge for all writers who communicate in a specific language system. However, syntactic control is challenging for...
View ArticleCollaborating Online: Tools for Improving Teacher Preparation in Literacy
Teacher preparation programs face the continual challenge to provide experiences that foster collaboration between teacher candidates and go beyond the boundaries of particular programs and...
View ArticlePrimary Teachers' Use of Communicative Strategies for Linguistically Diverse...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of communicative strategies employed by two primary grade teachers whose students’ home language differed from the language of instruction. The...
View ArticleDeveloping Strategic Learners: Supporting Self-Efficacy Through Goal Setting...
When students face academic challenges, when they receive poor grades on a subject, and when they see unchanged performance -even though they put effort on a task- they often develop the belief that...
View ArticleSupporting and Sustaining Specialized Literacy Professionals in Teacher...
Specialized literacy professionals (specialists/coaches/coordinators) are enacting leadership roles that influence how school communities interact and collaborate to change instructional practices....
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