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Title: "Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
Author: Strong, Kellan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: This qualitative study explores the literacy and language practices of Black adolescent girls as they read and make meaning of a critical text. The focus of this inquiry was to broadly examine how societal and situational factors influence the way...

Title: A Window into My Mirror: An Autoethnography of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy with LGBTQ+ Students
Author: Kincaid, Nicki
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Education, Reading
Description: This research portrays a personal journey of a middle school language arts teacher working with LGBTQ+ students. Using autoethnography as the method, this study interprets personal narratives about the researcher’s adolescent identity development ...

Title: An Examination of Teachers’ Understanding and Use of Text Complexity and Complex Text in Second Grade Classrooms
Author: Smith, Delphia
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: Communication in the 21st century is no longer limited to a mastery of literal level comprehension, although it is an essential element of understanding. Now, more than ever, it is paramount that students are able to read and critically analyze te...

Title: DIGITAL LITERACIES: A CASE STUDY EXPLORING THE READING PROCESSES OF GRADE SIX STUDENTS IN A LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSROOM ENGAGING WITH INFORMATIONAL TEXTS ONLINE
Author: Wylie, Alonda
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: Researchers suggest that youth involvement with digital texts and online media is essential to developing critical readers and writers in the twenty-first century (Alvermann, 2008; Buckinghann, 2003; Doering et al., 2007; Sperling & DiPardo, 2008;...

Title: Do You See Yourself In Multicultural Literature? Seeking Self-reflections From Black Students
Author: Thomas, April
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Reading, Education
Description: In the United States, Muhammad (2020) explains how Black students who attend schools have a greater potential for success when they see themselves represented in the curriculum and when their cultural, gender, and racial identities are affirmed. T...

Title: HOLDING OUT FOR A HÉROE: A BOOK CLUB STUDY OF RURAL MIDDLE SCHOOL LATINAS
Author: Dymes, Laurie
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education, Reading, Instructional systems--Design
Description: Literacy provides people with intellectual tools to question, challenge, understand, disagree, and arrive at informed perspectives and is a reflection of cultural values and meaning-making for adolescents within their community. By understanding t...

Title: Investigating the Influence of Literacy Coaching as Embedded PD on Teacher Instruction
Author: Mauzy, Katherine
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: Improving elementary student reading achievement has been a well-defined goal of many federal and state educational initiatives over the last several decades. To that end, vast amounts of resources have been funneled into professional development ...

Title: Literacy coaches: A case study of beginning teacher perceptions of literacy coaching
Author: Bambrick, Jennifer
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perspectives of beginning teachers regarding their work with literacy coaches. The study took place at two elementary schools in a suburban school district in the Southeastern United St...

Title: The Effects of an Interactive Vocabulary Strategy on Teachers' and Students' Perceptions of Word Learning
Author: Latham, Kendall
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education, Reading
Description: ABSTRACTKENDALL KISER LATHAM. The effects of an interactive strategy on teachers' and students' perceptions of word learning. (Under direction of DR.KAREN WOOD)It is a well established fact that the level and degree of vocabulary knowledge plays a...

Title: The effect of digital word study on fifth graders' vocabulary acquisition, retention, and motivation: A mixed-methods approach
Author: Yearta, Lindsay
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: ABSTRACTLINDSAY SHERONICK YEARTA. The effect of digital word study on fifth graders' vocabulary acquisition, retention, and motivation: A mixed methods approach. (Under the direction of DR.KAREN WOOD)Vocabulary and comprehension are so inextricabl...