Children's literature often inspires the author's lessons, and reading to her primary students motivates their participation. In this article, the author presents and describes her lesson which is based on the book "Falling for Rapunzel" by Leah Wilcox. Students created a fairy tale tower in this lesson, which took place over three class periods.…

By the time they reach preschool or kindergarten, young children are already writers. They don't have much experience, but they're filled with stories to tell and ideas to express--they want to show the world what they know and see. All they need is a nurturing teacher to recognize the writer at work within them. Taking an exciting, new approach…

The authors of this action research project report implemented oral reading fluency-based interventions for the purpose of improving students' reading comprehension. Six students in grade three, six students in grade five and six students in grade six participated in the study from Monday, August 27 through Friday, December 7, 2007. Researchers…

The purpose of this study was to describe literacy instruction in child care centers, examine aspects of child care center quality that may predict such instruction, and provide a limited analysis of whether literacy instruction impacts children's concurrent pre-academic functioning. Staff and children in 103 classrooms serving preschool-age…

A children's poet offers suggestions to overcome the reluctance to read poetry, teach the difference between poetry and prose, help children follow their natural instincts, enjoy poetry, and share it with others. (MT)

Reveals how reading Joan Phipson's "A Tide Flowing" was an enriching experience to the students in a secondary school English classroom. (HOD)

Argues that reading aloud is an important motivational strategy for primary school children as well as secondary school children. Discusses ways of carrying out this worthwhile activity. (SR)

Describes how in order to promote social interaction among the struggling readers, the author decided to have them work in pairs at a table in the back of the room in the same way the teacher held conferences. Engages the struggling readers in retelling the story the teacher read aloud during the whole-class lesson. (SG)

Discusses the advantages of partnership reading (pairs of students alternately read to each other orally) for both teachers and young children, claiming that where there is clear focus this activity will build fluency. (NH)

Presents a read-aloud from Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi" and describes its use (and class activities for it) in algebra and geography classes. (SR)

Offers examples of the kind of story exploration the author carries out with adults or children to discover as much about the story as they can. Notes that nursery rhymes are effective for this exploration. (RS)

Describes using a passage from the book "Raney" by Clyde Edgerton as a read-aloud in social studies and language arts classrooms to explore value conflicts, understand cultures, study dialog and to introduce drama. (SR)

Argues that children can be encouraged to develop a lifelong devotion to books through the act of adults reading aloud to children. Considers why this strategy works and outlines better applications of it. Concludes that reading aloud to children has many benefits, especially when used in a literature-based approach. (HB)

Because models with dual-route architecture can explain six identified basic facts about reading, the authors suggest that this remains the workable architecture for any tenable model of reading and learning to read. The dual-route cascaded model, a computational version of the dual-route model, is described. (SLD)

Discussion of the use of movement in writing classes focuses on a poetry class for eight- to twelve-year-olds that incorporated basketball. Describes listening to the sounds of basketball, recalling memories of basketball, breathing and movement, reading aloud to others, revisions, and public reading for families and friends. (LRW)