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Writing and Reading Connections: Bridging Research and Practice
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Philippakos, Zoi A., Ed.; Graham, Steve, Ed. – Guilford Press, 2022
Writing skills are essential for success in the 21st-century school and workplace, but most classrooms devote far more time to reading instruction, with writing often addressed in isolation or excluded. In this insightful professional development resource and text, leading researchers discuss why and how to integrate writing and reading…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Instruction, Reading Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education
Comprehension Across the Curriculum: Perspectives and Practices K-12
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Ganske, Kathy, Ed.; Fisher, Douglas, Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2009
Successful students use comprehension skills and strategies throughout the school day. In this timely book, leading scholars present innovative ways to support reading comprehension across content areas and the full K-12 grade range. Chapters provide specific, practical guidance for selecting rewarding texts and promoting engagement and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Social Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach
Learner Autonomy in the English Classroom: Empirical Studies and Ideas for Teachers
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Lennon, Paul, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
The volume consists of twelve classroom studies concerned with the implementation of learner autonomy in English classes. The individual studies range from primary school level to university level. They include studies on multi-media dictionary work, reading logs, peer correction, communication strategies, vocabulary learning strategies, oral…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Age Differences, Learning Strategies, English (Second Language)
Deepening Literacy Learning: Art and Literature Engagements in K-8 Classrooms. Teaching--Learning Indigenous, Intercultural Worldviews: International Perspectives on Social Justice and Human Rights
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Reilly, Mary Ann; Gangi, Jane M.; Cohen, Rob – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
This book is a wonderful blending of methodologies. This juxtaposition of art and literature serves as an instrument for teachers to inspire their students to create, critique, compare and predict, all higher-level intellectual behaviors, while composing across symbol systems. The work contains detailed classroom transcripts of strategies that…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Sociocultural Patterns, Current Events, Writing Workshops
Integrating Science and Literacy Instruction: A Framework for Bridging the Gap
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Freeman, Gene; Taylor, Vickie – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006
There is vast research that substantiates the integration of science and literacy; however, there are very few books that correlate findings and address specific practices. "Integrating Science and Literary Instruction" connects scientifically based research and best instructional practices in literacy and integrates this with the inquiry-based…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Scientific Research
New Perspectives on Comprehension. Monographs in Teaching and Learning Number 3.
Harste, Jerome C., Ed.; Carey, Robert F., Ed. – 1979
Focusing on providing an interdisciplinary framework, the papers in this monograph attempt to synthesize knowledge about comprehension from the points of view of cognitive psychology, textlinguistics, artificial intelligence, and sociolinguistics, as well as from the more conventional perspective of language education. Papers include…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Applications of Cross-Language Analysis. Jyvaskyla Cross-Language Studies, No. 12
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Sajavaara, Kari, Ed. – 1987
Four papers on contrastive linguistics include: (1) "The Search for an Ideal Theoretical Model in Applied Contrastive Linguistics: A Wild Goose Chase" (Herman Wekker, Flor Aarts), which argues that contrastive linguists should feel free to adopt an eclectic approach to theory since no single linguistic model can be adopted in its entirety and…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dutch, English (Second Language), Error Patterns