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Willis, Judy – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2008
Neurologist and middle school teacher Judy Willis connects what you do in the classroom to what happens in the brain when students learn how to read, including: (1) Why a classroom has to be safe and supportive in order to overcome barriers to reading fluency; (2) How to jumpstart students who are not well prepared for reading with activities that…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading, Phonemic Awareness
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Allen, Brenda A.; Butler, Lisa – Journal of Black Psychology, 1996
Studies contextual factors informed by cultural experiences and their influence on learning task performance in 15 African American and 13 white children. The African American children performed better when allowed to coordinate movement and music to the learning task while white students had the opposite results. (GR)
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences