The United States has a long history of attempting to intervene or fix how families practice literacy together, with much less emphasis on honoring or understanding how families support literacy learning at home. This qualitative study employed a multiple-case design that examin…
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Racist laws and subsequent educational policies and practices have resulted in schools in the United States failing to teach Black students reading. Historically, a racial achievement gap in elementary reading has existed throughout the history of the United States and has persi…
Graphic novels have long been associated with the crime fighting superheroes who are closely followed by their fans in the solace of their homes or comic bookstores; however, these texts have much potential to grab the attention of students within classroom settings. A graphic n…
Disciplinary literacy theory has become a prominent subfield in literacy education and research, and, as a result, policy and education reform have called for teachers to expand their literacy instruction from a sole emphasis on generic reading strategies toward including studen…
In recent years, there have been calls for a fundamental reconsideration of literacy policy and practice, and a broadening of perspectives on literacy achievement and assessment (Avineri et al., 2015; Calfee, 2014; Y. Goodman, 2014; Moss, Pullin, Gee & Haertel, 2005; Pearson, Va…
This study investigated the use of storytelling in order to support children's emergent literacy in Malawi's resource deprived Community Based Childcare Centers (CBCCs). It focused on the professional development of four caregivers from four CBCCs following a Formative and Desig…
Schools nationwide are transitioning to the Common Core--our advice to you: Don't go it alone! Our new book, "Common Core Literacy Lesson Plans: Ready-to-Use Resources, 6-8," shows you that teaching the Common Core State Standards in the middle grades doesn't have to be intimida…
Developing reading skills is one of the critical reasons for public education in America. Having a reading intervention in place for fourth and fifth-grade students who struggle in reading is vital to set students up for success as learning to read switches to reading to learn. …
This study examined selected teacher and school factors and their relationship to middle schools’ reading achievement in South Carolina. There are three teacher factors and four school factors. This research study’s teacher factors were teacher retention, teachers with advanced …
Sexual assault is an incredibly mature, sensitive, and disturbing topic to discuss, but it can be even harder to teach. However, by examining literature that depicts sexual assault, readers can develop empathy for the characters by understanding how trauma manifests and acknowle…
What do we hope to teach in teaching literature, and how can we best serve that purpose? These are questions that are no less urgent than they are fundamental, and should, in fact, be constantly in our minds as we engage in our practice. This discussion will entail a conversatio…
Traditionally, in educational discourses early literacy development has tended to be thought of in terms of measurable learning outcomes. In this thesis, young children’s encounters with written and multimodal texts are re-imagined as literacy experiences. The research adopted a…
This research aims to better understand the relationship between professional learning (PL) in genre-based literacy teaching and its impact on classroom practice. It is a study of teacher uptake of new knowledge about language and pedagogy based on Reading to Learn professional …
Native American Peoples and other Indigenous Peoples have been portrayed with racial bias and the use of harmful stereotypes in literature and other media since early writings at the beginnings of imperial colonization. The issue remains pervasive in popular stories and public b…
Nos últimos anos, têm sido vários os estudos que sugerem que bons hábitos de leitura e que a escolha do papel para a leitura são fatores que influenciam o desempenho em leitura e o desempenho académico. Assim, o grande objetivo deste estudo foi o de avaliar a relação entre os há…
Within the last 10 years, social media has become an increasingly prevalent component in the daily lives of students, including those in universities. Although many social media sites were developed and updated within this timeframe, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, r…
This practitioner research study documents the experiences and perspectives of nine Academic Upgrading students in an After School Reading and Writing Group who were enrolled within an urban college in Toronto. The group is composed of multilingual participants who count among t…
Bu çalışmamızda mütevâtir ve meşhûr imamların kırâatleri olmak üzere on kırâat dediğimiz "kırâat-ı aşere" esas alınmış olup "Mü'minûn ve Nûr sûrelerindeki kırâat farklılıkları ve manaya etkisi" üzerinde durulmuştur.
Achievement gaps have been an ongoing issue among African American students for years. The continuation of low achievement scores has been the downfall of African American student success throughout their educational history (Royle & Brown, 2014). So much time has been spent hel…