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Using Blogs to Promote Literary Response during Professional Development
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Colwell, Jamie; Hutchison, Amy; Reinking, David – Language Arts, 2012
This article describes a project that studied 15 preservice teachers' perceptions of and reactions to responding to children's and young adult literature using a Ning blog. These perceptions and reactions provided insight into various practical aspects of using a social networking blog to facilitate literature response in a teacher education…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Adolescent Literature, Preservice Teachers, Web Sites
The Family Backpack Project: Responding to Dual-Language Texts through Family Journals
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Rowe, Deborah; Fain, Jeanne Gilliam – Language Arts, 2013
The Family Backpack Project provided 249 low-income, prekindergarten children and their families with opportunities to read and listen to audio recordings of 3 sets of books in their homes. Families received English or dual-language texts (English plus Spanish, Arabic, Kurdish, or Somali) matched to their home languages. Children and their…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Low Income Groups, Preschool Children, Family Programs
Book Club Plus: A Conceptual Framework To Organize Literacy Instruction.
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Raphael, Taffy E.; Florio-Ruane, Susan; George, MariAnne – Language Arts, 2001
Notes that finding time for skills instruction without replacing literature discussion and writers' workshop requires a strong organizational framework for literacy instruction. Suggests that teachers need principled, conceptual frameworks to guide their thoughts and actions. Describes a framework, Book Club Plus, designed by a practitioner…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Grade 3, Literacy, Primary Education
On Children Writing Prose.
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Rouse, John – Language Arts, 1984
Describes a language arts program in a Brooklyn, New York, public school in which children are questioned about their writing and their interests and allowed the freedom to put any interest on paper. Discusses the problems children encounter with such writing freedom, as well as the program's effectiveness. (HTH)
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Program Descriptions
More Comprehensive Assessment of Writing Development.
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Wilkinson, Andrew; And Others – Language Arts, 1983
Describes a British writing assessment project intended to discern age-specific characteristics of writing and the project's subsequent assessment model. Evaluates samples of two kinds of writing, autobiography and argument, using the model. (HTH)
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries
Hypertext Literacy: Observations from the ElectroText Project.
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Anderson-Inman, Lynne; And Others – Language Arts, 1994
Provides an overview of "ElectroText," a program to develop electronically enhanced versions of short stories for use in middle school language arts programs for at-risk students. Describes the setting and instructional context, the strategies used to gather information about what students did when they read in a hypertext environment,…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Hypermedia, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Building on the Strengths of Families: The Promising Readers Program.
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Brenner, Devon; Jayroe, Teresa; Boutwell, Angela – Language Arts, 2003
Describes one rural school's development of a literacy program in which family members collaborate with educators to provide literature-based experiences and tutoring for struggling readers. Concludes that family literacy programs are more successful when they involve family members in working with children as they learn the literary strategies to…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Elementary Education, Family Literacy, Instructional Improvement