Partnering for Success: Text and Peer Engagement During Paired Reading
AbstractIn this article we report the results and classroom implications of a qualitative study that explored third-grade students' interactions with each other as they partner read. Participants included 10 students, each of whom engaged in three readings with a partner during recorded observations. All students had been taught structures for partner reading and numerous reading strategies by their classroom teacher. The transcripts of the readings were parsed, annotated with observational notes, and coded using descriptive phrases. Students' interactions with each other during the readings revealed that they are capable ...
Source: Reading Teacher - October 6, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Kathryn L. Roberts,
Poonam Arya,
Kathleen K. Plond Tags: Teaching and Learning in Action Source Type: research
Reading Comprehension and the COVID ‐19 Pandemic: What Happened and What Can We Do About It?
AbstractCovid-19-related school closures worldwide had an enormous impact on literacy instruction and learning. In this article, we share an overview of what research tells us about what happened to elementary learners' reading comprehension during these school closures and what reading comprehension instruction looked like in homes and schools during this time. We also provide recommendations for the path forward on the road to revitalizing reading comprehension achievement. (Source: Reading Teacher)
Source: Reading Teacher - October 6, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Janice F. Almasi,
Dongyang Yuan Tags: Viewpoint Source Type: research
Interrogating Young Children's Itineraries for Writing: Promoting Disciplinary Literacy through Personal Digital Inquiry
AbstractOffering a heuristic to apprentice young children into the disciplines, we examine how one multiage classroom teacher leveraged the resources of personal digital inquiry to forward students ’ knowledge building. (Source: Reading Teacher)
Source: Reading Teacher - October 5, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Jon M. Wargo,
Kierstin Giunco Tags: Teaching and Learning in Action Source Type: research
Teaching for Social Justice: A Teacher Researcher's Journey and Evolution
This article (a) explores the experience of an early childhood teacher researcher as she intentionally uses interactive read-alouds to promote social justice and to encourage critical consciousness in her preschool classroom and (b) offers guidance for educators to embark on their own social justice journey. Over the course of a 2-year study, the teacher engaged the children with 12 books. Findings describe the personal and professional evolution of the teacher researcher as social justice became her “way of being.” As she studied and reflected on issues of oppression and equity, and considered her own classroom read-a...
Source: Reading Teacher - October 3, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Norline R. Wild Tags: Teaching and Learning in Action Source Type: research
Teaching Remotely without Being Distant: Implications for Primary Age Students' Learning of Foundational Reading Skills
AbstractDuring the 2020 –2021 school year, the COVID-19 pandemic forced millions of students and teachers into hybrid or fully remote modalities. Compiling the experiences of teachers who taught foundational reading skills to their primary-age students in a hybrid model (a mix of both remote learners at home, joining via video conferencing, as well as in-person learners in the classroom), the authors demonstrate the challenges and successes that innovative elementary teachers saw with students' reading. Through observations, interviews, and lesson reviews, key ideas emerged that could make remote instruction more e ffect...
Source: Reading Teacher - October 3, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Mariah Fiona Kramer,
Troy Hicks Tags: Teaching and Learning in Action Source Type: research
Motivate and Engage Our Youngest Writers
AbstractResearch suggests that when young children have many opportunities to write they start believing they are the sort of people who can write for intellectual, academic, and social purposes. They also learn foundational reading skills. Project-like compositional writing involving design, strategies, and problem solving versus functional writing or shorter writing episodes, promises even more benefits. A question for teachers is how might we motivate young children toward complex projects when they are still learning basic literacy concepts. We take up this problem by focusing on the conditions under which young childr...
Source: Reading Teacher - September 29, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Karole ‐Ann Friddle,
Gay Ivey Tags: Teaching and Learning in Action Source Type: research
Teaching with Cuentos Combativos: Reading for Decolonial Futures
AbstractTransnational children's texts can bring communities together, forcing us to reflect critically on our past, present, and future, and pushing us to action. In this column, we propose that texts that do this form of activist work arecuentos combativos and that all teachers and researchers can leveragecuentos combativos for critical reflection, ReconoceR, and action for justice. (Source: Reading Teacher)
Source: Reading Teacher - September 26, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Francisco Luis Torres,
Carmen Liliana Medina Tags: Column Source Type: research
Who Is Doing Science? Using Science Texts to Open Spaces that Expand the Voices and Perspectives in Elementary Classrooms
AbstractScience texts tend to privilege the voices, perspectives, and practices of White males (e.g., Ford, 2006), reinforcing widely-held perceptions of scientists as White men. This narrow portrayal of who “does science” discourages BIPOC or female students from building a science identity (Archer et al., 2015), with many such students also viewing science as difficult or undesirable (Brickhouse et al., 2000). We argue that intentional positioning of science text written by or about BIPOC or femal e figures in science and literacy instruction not only helpsall students develop science and literacy skills and knowledg...
Source: Reading Teacher - September 20, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Lisa M. O'Brien,
Evelyn Ford ‐Connors,
Anne Gatling,
Elizabeth Boyle,
Kristina Copelas,
Margaret Langenfeld Tags: Teaching and Learning in Action Source Type: research
