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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 Qualitative Multiple Case Study Exploring How the Lives of High School Male Students Enrolled in an Alternative Education Program Mediate Their Reading and Writing Inside The English Classroom
- Author
- Gates, Lily
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Secondary, Reading, Education
- Description
- Historically, male students have been known to score lower than their female counterparts in reading and writing on standardized measures of academic success. While scholars, teachers, and even policymakers have attempted to explain and mitigate t...
- 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
- Digital Collaborative Literacy, Critical Literacy, and Writing for Social Justice: A Case Study of Meaningful Learning in a First Grade Classroom
- Author
- Stover, Katherine
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Reading, Language arts
- Description
- The need for twenty-first century learning skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and the use of technology are paramount to success in today's classroom. The purpose of this study was to explore what happened when childre...
- 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
- Teacher candidates’ experiences with clinical teaching in reading instruction: A comparison between the professional development school environment and the non-professional development school environment.
- Author
- Hopper, Cynthia
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Reading
- Description
- Teacher candidates experience a variety of school settings when enrolled in teacher education methods courses. Candidates report varied experiences when in public school classrooms. This dissertation investigated clinical experiences of teacher ca...
- Title
- Teachers' Beliefs and Practices Regarding the Role of Technology in Literacy Instruction: A Mixed Methods Study
- Author
- McIntyre, Beverly
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Elementary, Reading, Education
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of teachers' beliefs about the role of technology in their literacy instruction in the context of one elementary school with a technology-rich environment by investigating those beliefs ...
- 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 Impact of Teachers' Knowledge and Professional Development Experiences on the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices they Implement in Literacy
- Author
- Kavel, Rebecca
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Education, Elementary, Reading
- Description
- ABSTRACT With substantial demographic shifts in the U.S. student population, today’s teachers educate growing numbers of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (Kena, Aud, & Johnson, 2010). While these students bring an ab...
- Title
- When the Script Hits the Plan: Using Author's Chair to inform instructional practices within a scripted literacy program
- Author
- Johnson, Brianne
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Reading
- Description
- This qualitative case study conducted in a first grade classroom examined the influence of the social interactions that occur during the Author’s Chair (an element of a Writer’s Workshop instructional framework) on a teacher’s instructional decisi...