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Using Drama and Movement to Enhance English Language Learners' Literacy Development
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Rieg, Sue A.; Paquette, Kelli R. – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2009
One of the biggest challenges teachers face in today's classrooms is instructing students who are non-native English speakers. Research supports using drama and movement to enhance the literacy development of English language learners. Besides being "fun" learning experiences for children, drama and movement have proven to assist with developing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Second Language Learning, Decoding (Reading)
"Doing" Literature: Using Drama to Build Literacy Classrooms: The Segue for a Few Struggling Readers.
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McMaster, Jennifer Catney – Reading Teacher, 1998
Explores the use of drama as a teaching tool to promote students' interest in literacy and to support every aspect of literacy development. Describes how drama can help develop affect, emergent literacy, decoding knowledge, fluency, vocabulary knowledge, syntactic knowledge, discourse knowledge, and metacognitive knowledge. Discusses also using…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Class Activities, Creative Dramatics, Decoding (Reading)
Reading Strategies: Activities to Stimulate Slow and Reluctant Readers.
Tiedt, Iris M. – 1976
The activities included in this book are based on the assumption that good readers have excellent command of oral language, that they recognize signals and patterns in words and sentences and are able to guess unknown words based on this information, and that they learn to read by reading. Among the activities included in this collection are those…
Descriptors: Children, Class Activities, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
Teaching Word Recognition, Spelling, and Vocabulary: Strategies from "The Reading Teacher."
Rasinski, Timothy V., Ed.; Padak, Nancy D., Ed.; Church, Brenda Weible, Ed.; Fawcett, Gay, Ed.; Hendershot, Judith, Ed.; Henry, Justina M., Ed.; Moss, Barbara G., Ed.; Peck, Jacqueline K., Ed.; Pryor, Elizabeth, Ed.; Roskos, Kathleen A., Ed. – 2000
This book, one of four in the Teaching Reading Collection, presents the "best of the best" classroom-tested ideas, approaches, and practical applications for helping students learn about words. The articles have been drawn from the journal "The Reading Teacher" from 1993-1999. The ideas and strategies are intended to provide possible building…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts
Toward Wider Use of Literature in ESL: Why and How.
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Gajdusek, Linda – TESOL Quarterly, 1988
Discusses English as a second language (ESL) theory as it relates to the use of literature, and presents a four-step approach to any literary text that obliges ESL students to take responsibility for building their own successively more complex schemata. This approach is illustrated with Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home." (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Context Clues
Spotlight on Reading. A Companion to: Beginning Reading Instruction. A Response from the Texas Education Agency and The Texas Mentor School Network Region XIII to the Governor's Reading Challenge. Texas Reading Initiative.
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Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1997
This booklet presents many examples of instructional activities that occur on a daily basis on the campuses of Spotlight Schools, schools identified by the Texas Education Agency as having student populations that reflect a diversity of ethnicity and socioeconomic backgrounds, and demonstrate that essentially all children can become readers. It is…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Decoding (Reading), Independent Reading