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Gonzales, Grace Cornell; Machado, Emily – Reading Teacher, 2022
Translanguaging pedagogies support student writers in expressing themselves using their full language repertoires, writing for authentic audiences, and connecting to their identities. However, many teachers, particularly those who identify as "monolingual" and teach in English-medium classrooms, may not know how to introduce…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Moses, Lindsey; Hajdun, Matt; Aguirre, Ana Alvarado – Reading Teacher, 2021
In this article, the authors share their experiences creating and implementing a unit focused on supporting bilingual identities through integrating language domains and translanguaging with authentic writing experiences. Two dual-language first-grade teachers from Colombia and the US worked together to model, celebrate, and support the use of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingual Education, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
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Dennis, Danielle V. – Reading Teacher, 2017
Signed into law by President Barack Obama in December 2015, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) replaces No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. NCLB and its Reading First mandate brought punitive accountability models and scripted core curricula into schools. Based on the language of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Programs
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Wolf, Shelby Anne – Reading Teacher, 1993
Discusses a yearlong study of a classroom's experience with Readers Theatre. Analyzes the "remedial" children's interpretive behaviors--language uses, body movements, comparative approaches, and affective interpretations--as they enacted literary texts in the theater of their own creation. Suggests that one solution to the problems of labeled…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Creative Dramatics, Elementary Education, Labeling (of Persons)
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Jiang, Shanye; Li, Bo – Reading Teacher, 1985
Reports that by combining a phonetic writing system with instruction in carefully selected clusters of related Chinese characters, Chinese schools can start children on productive reading at an early age with texts closer to their developed cognitive levels. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Language Usage
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Kupinsky, Bonnie Z. – Reading Teacher, 1983
Describes and evaluates an English-Hebrew program designed to develop biliteracy in kindergarten children. (FL)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language)
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Reading Teacher, 1980
Contains suggestions from six contributors, including the use of parents as an audience for beginning readers; outdoor activities to motivate readers; word order recognition exercise; a books-by-mail library service for rural students; using remedial students to read to younger children; and a language arts/social studies project. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Language Usage