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Fry, Richard; Parker, Kim – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
A Pew Research Center analysis of 2018 Census Bureau data finds that post-Millennials (ages 6 to 21) are the most racially and ethnically diverse generation of Americans, and they are entering college at a higher rate than generations of the past. Their parents are more likely to have college degrees and have a higher median income than the…
Descriptors: Demography, Profiles, Census Figures, Children
Albus, Deb A.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Larson, Erik D.; Liu, Kristi K.; Lazarus, Sheryl S. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2019
The Data-Informed Accessibility--Making Optimal Needs-based Decisions (DIAMOND) project received funding in 2015 from an Enhanced Assessment Initiative grant to collect information that would inform the creation of professional development modules for educators making decisions within new accessibility frameworks. The DIAMOND project conducted…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Accessibility (for Disabled), Regular and Special Education Relationship, Testing Accommodations
Breit-Smith, Allison; Busch, Jamie D.; Dinnesen, Megan Schneider; Guo, Ying – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2017
Expository, or informational, text can be defined as a type of nonfiction that describes a topic categorically by moving from subtopic to subtopic with the intent to teach content or convey information (Maloch & Bomer, 2013). One vehicle for teaching the text structure and language of expository text to preschool-age children is through…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Preschool Education, Special Education, Reading Strategies
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Isabel, Borja-Alarcón; Astrid, Ramirez Valencia; Alfonso, López-Vega – English Language Teaching, 2017
This paper aims to report the findings of a research project, developed from the need to make contributions about the characteristics that emerge, when a three-year-old child and his caregiver carry reading activities out. By the use of recordings and students' artifacts, in order to collect data; and analyzing the information collected through…
Descriptors: Young Children, Caregivers, Reading, Case Studies
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Schwarz, Amy Louise; Guajardo, Jennifer; Hart, Rebecca – Deafness & Education International, 2017
Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) literature suggests that there are different read-aloud goals for DHH prereaders based on the spoken and visual communication modes DHH prereaders use, such as: American Sign Language (ASL), simultaneously signed and spoken English (SimCom), and predominately spoken English only. To date, no studies have surveyed…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Intermode Differences, Deafness, Partial Hearing
Ross, Rachael L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Reading aloud is a common classroom practice that has many cognitive and affective benefits for students. Early childhood teachers conduct read-aloud events in classrooms across the country on a daily basis. A read-aloud event could not occur without the intentional selection of a book. This exploratory, sequential mixed method study explored the…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Mixed Methods Research
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Breit-Smith, Allison; Busch, Jamie D.; Dinnesen, Megan Schneider; Guo, Ying – Grantee Submission, 2017
Expository, or informational, text can be defined as a type of nonfiction that describes a topic categorically by moving from subtopic to subtopic with the intent to teach content or convey information (Maloch & Bomer, 2013). One vehicle for teaching the text structure and language of expository text to preschool-age children is through…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Preschool Education, Special Education, Reading Strategies
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Traga Philippakos, Zoi A.; Munsell, Sarah; Robinson, Logan B. – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2018
Writing has been often viewed as a cognitive or social task and instructional practices are influenced by one or the other perspective. However, alternatives may need to be considered that are not as polarized and consider individuals, their environment, their development, their needs, and the role of community (Graham, in press). The purpose of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education, Story Telling
Salay, Darla M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
In New Jersey and nationwide, legislative efforts require that schools refocus on teaching social emotional skills in order to meet the holistic needs of students and prevent bullying. However, with an ever-growing list of school requirements, no additional instructional time, and little guidance on how to teach social emotional skills, schools…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Critical Literacy, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Paganelli, Andrea – Knowledge Quest, 2016
Storytime is an important fixture in many school libraries that helps foster students' reading abilities. With a history of success, why would librarians want to alter storytime by incorporating technology? This article discusses how Laura Fleming, a long-time school librarian, addressed decreased student engagement in traditional reading…
Descriptors: Story Reading, Reading Aloud to Others, School Libraries, Reading Ability
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Duursma, Elisabeth – First Language, 2016
Bookreading is known to benefit young children's language and literacy development. However, research has demonstrated that how adults interact around a book with a child is probably even more important than reading the complete text. Dialogic or interactive reading strategies can promote children's language development more specifically. Little…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Fathers, Mothers, Picture Books
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Hagiwara, Akiko – Modern Language Journal, 2016
This study explores whether emphasizing the phonetic components of "kanji," Chinese characters used in Japanese, facilitates second language (L2) learners' novel character learning. Previous L2 studies on Chinese characters indicate that phonology plays a major part in word identification. However, this view remains controversial,…
Descriptors: Phonology, Phonetics, Second Language Learning, Japanese
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Gosen, Myrte N.; Berenst, Jan; de Glopper, Kees – Classroom Discourse, 2015
This paper reports on a conversation analytic study of problem-solving interactions during shared reading at three kindergartens in the Netherlands. It illustrates how teachers and pupils discuss book characters' problems that arise in the events in the picture books. A close analysis of the data demonstrates that problem-solving interactions do…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Problem Solving, Interaction, Reading Aloud to Others
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Oliveira, Alandeom W.; Rogers, Patterson; Quigley, Cassie F.; Samburskiy, Denis; Barss, Kimberly; Rivera, Seema – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2015
Despite growing interest in helping students become agents of environmental change who can, through informed decision-making and action-taking, transform environmentally detrimental forms of human activity, science educators have reduced agency to rationality by overlooking sociocultural influences such as norms and values. We tackle this issue by…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Reading Aloud to Others, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students
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Hermann-Wilmarth, Jill M.; Lannen, Rosemary; Ryan, Caitlin L. – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2017
In this paper, we explore the intersection of critical literacy pedagogy, queer pedagogy, and transgender topics by turning our attention to the learning that supported the writing of an acrostic poem about Title IX and transgender students. We examine how this writing, in turn, created additional content and context that spurred others' learning.…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality
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