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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Literature -- Study and teaching"”.
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Projects to stimulate appreciation of literature in secondary schools
… living in later life. After much experimentation and serious study, the conclusion has been made that the individual differences and interests of the students have often defeated successful teaching of literature by the old method. The use of projects is one of the most valuable ways of according …
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Literature circles: in class and online discussions
… new literacy shifts in education, a qualitative study was conducted with the intention to aid improvement in literacy instruction. The course of the study spanned for four weeks in one third grade classroom within the same school building. This study was designed to see what would happen when …
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Techniques used by elementary library media specialists to teach authors and illustrators
<p>The purpose of this study was to determine elementary school library media specialists' perceptions of the role of author and illustrator studies in the library curriculum. The study was conducted to measure the uses of author/illustrator studies and which techniques that teach authors and …
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The implementation of the exit slip strategy to examine the advancement of paraphrasing and summarizing Shakespearean text
<p>The purpose of this action research study was to help mediate areas of deficiency that were identified in the essay and composition writing of a group of freshman Honors' students. During this study, students were provided with specific strategies to interpret texts so they could begin to …
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Implementing literature circles in a fourth grade classroom
… students' levels of comprehension, engagement, and writing when literature circles were implemented while reading the novel <em>Jacob's Rescue</em>, by Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin. The participants, twelve female and nine male, live in a lower-middle class suburban community. While …
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Using blended learning to improve undergraduate introduction to literature courses: A mixed methods approach
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A causal comparative investigation into transactional versus transformational instructional delivery style in two freshman-level humanities courses at a Southeastern American university
The purpose of the study was to utilize a causal comparative approach to compare two contrasting instructional delivery styles to determine if there was any difference in final grade outcome between students whose instructors used transactional instructional delivery techniques and students whose …
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Bridging the curriculum through literature
This project promotes the use of literature groups based around a theme. In trying to meet the requirements of the California state framework, to integrate the subjects, this project contains two thematic units. Although the themes were designed for second and third grade, the two thematic units …
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Bridging the curriculum through literature
This project promotes the use of literature groups based around a theme. In trying to meet the requirements of the California state framework, to integrate the subjects, this project contains two thematic units. Although the themes were designed for second and third grade, the two thematic units …
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A comparison of two methods of teaching English in selected classes of the same high school
The purpose of this study was to set up equivalent groups of conventional and experimental classes in English in order to test both groups with certain standardized tests before and after a definite period of instruction, and to evaluate the relative efficiency of the two teaching methods in light …
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Redefining high school American literature in a diverse nation
<p>The purpose of this qualitative study was to evaluate why high school students in America study American literature that includes a majority of writers of white western European descent and excludes writers of multicultural backgrounds. This study also analyzed if exposure to works by …
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Blogging in response to literature: reading, writing, and thinking through the digital medium
… in an online classroom blog in response to literature assigned for their English class. The study was conducted in an eighth grade classroom and involved 37 students. The qualitative research paradigm was followed and data collected included student surveys, blog writing samples, classroom …
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