Engaging Students with Expository Books through Interactive Read ‐Alouds
This article first shares the complementary benefits of moving beyond fiction and narrative nonfiction in educators ’ read-aloud practices. Affordances include increased student knowledge and vocabulary, greater understanding of expository text structures and features, and heightened engagement. The article then features lesson plans demonstrating unique ways to use expository books for interactive read-alouds with elementary students. Additionally, readers are provided with high-quality expository texts educators may include in their classrooms. (Source: Reading Teacher)
Source: Reading Teacher - May 23, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Terrell A. Young,
Paul H. Ricks,
Kathryn Lake MacKay Tags: Teaching and Learning in Action Source Type: research
A Transnational, Translingual Lens on Curriculum: Supporting Children who are Immigrants and Refugees
AbstractOne quarter of children in the United States live with at least one parent who is an immigrant. Immigrants have a variety of backgrounds and situations including families who are refugees from war-torn countries, families living in the country for graduate school, and families who have lived in the US for multiple years. Immigrants ’ diversity of experiences makes getting to know their backgrounds and incorporating them into instruction critical. In this article, we share our experiences and provide reflection questions and suggestions to help educators embrace and incorporate home languages, explain and expand e...
Source: Reading Teacher - May 22, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Lisa M. Domke,
Jessica D. Harden Tags: Viewpoint Source Type: research
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Source: Reading Teacher - May 19, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Tanya S. Wright,
Patricia A. Edwards,
Laura S. Tortorelli,
Shireen Al ‐Adeimi,
Jungmin Kwon,
John Z. Strong,
Emily Phillips‐Galloway Tags: IN THIS ISSUE Source Type: research
Issue Information
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Source: Reading Teacher - May 18, 2023 Category: Child Development Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Thank You to Reviewers
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Source: Reading Teacher - May 18, 2023 Category: Child Development Tags: Thank You to Reviewers Source Type: research
Math and Picture Books: Story, Math Anxiety, and Building Joy
AbstractThis column focuses on the joy of story as it shines toward mathematics. We explore how reading aloud picture books brings math closer to the joy present in the story experience, helping to alleviate math anxiety and strengthen students ’ learning identities. (Source: Reading Teacher)
Source: Reading Teacher - May 18, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Mollie Welsh Kruger,
Grace Enriquez Tags: COLUMN Source Type: research
Playing with Words: Using Playful Learning Experiences in the Early Childhood Classroom to Build Vocabulary
AbstractShared book reading is a common and effective way to support vocabulary knowledge. However, it is not the only pedagogy for supporting this learning goal. We propose a “toolbox” of activities that teachers can use to foster vocabulary acquisition in young children. We first discuss the science behind why these activities are effective (they are active, engaging, meaningful, socially interactive, iterative, and joyful), and then give examples of playful learnin g experiences that have been effectively used in classroom vocabulary interventions. Finally, we offer ways in which these activities can be easily adapt...
Source: Reading Teacher - May 18, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Allyson Strmiska Masters,
Molly E. Scott,
Charlotte A. Wright,
Tamara Spiewak Toub,
David K. Dickinson,
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff,
Kathy Hirsh ‐Pasek Tags: VIEWPOINT Source Type: research
In This Issue 76:6
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Source: Reading Teacher - May 18, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Tanya S. Wright,
Patricia A. Edwards,
Laura S. Tortorelli,
Shireen Al ‐Adeimi,
Jungmin Kwon,
John Z. Strong,
Emily Phillips‐Galloway Tags: IN THIS ISSUE Source Type: research
Issue Information
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Source: Reading Teacher - May 18, 2023 Category: Child Development Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Thank You to Reviewers
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Source: Reading Teacher - May 18, 2023 Category: Child Development Tags: Thank You to Reviewers Source Type: research
Literacy in the Plural: Multiliteracies Enlivened during the Pandemic
AbstractCritical and situated engagement with literacies offers educators an important, documented pedagogical tool that has the potential to increase elementary students ’ understanding of issues of equity, while developing their empathy, self-awareness, and critical consciousness. What we don't know is how literacies can be used during a global pandemic to support students' socially, emotionally, and intellectually. This ethnographic research study sheds light on one racially, linguistically diverse fourth grade classroom and what happens when the teacher uses literacy events to engage students during the COVID19 pande...
Source: Reading Teacher - May 17, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Catherine Swift Tags: Teaching and Learning in Action Source Type: research
“Hice Zoom Con Mi Abuelita”: What We Can Learn from First and Second Graders' Pandemic Narratives
This article details a classroom-based study designed to provide agency and voice to first and second grade emergent bilinguals as they processed the COVID-19 pandemic. Two California teachers created a narrative writing unit not only to teach specific writing skills, but also to challenge pervasive deficit assumptions that young children “could not handle” the details or scope of this global health crisis. Students' narratives illustrated a profound awareness of the cultural, social, psychological, and academic impacts of COVID-19. This work demonstrates that children can indeed, understand and articulate complex live...
Source: Reading Teacher - May 15, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Rhianna Henry Casesa,
Aja E. LaDuke,
Vanessa Chavez Qui ñonez,
Heidy Garibay Tags: Teaching and Learning in Action Source Type: research