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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Literature discussions"”.
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Teacher facilitation of critical literature discussions with kindergarten students
… this qualitative case study was to examine how literature discussions are used to promote social justice in an early childhood classroom that emphasizes critical literacies and sociocultural approaches to literacy. Rita, the teacher, read aloud to a small group of students to spark interests and …
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Developing language skills in second language learners through literature discussions
This study analyzed book discussions of primary aged ESL students and their teacher to examine the benefits to language development. Collected over one school year, data included transcribed audiotapes of the book discussions, class interviews, and personal journal entries of the teacher which …
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Promoting Student -Led Literature Discussions for Second Language and Literacy Development
This study explored how a student-led literature discussion in an out-of-school book club offers young ESL learners the opportunity to improve their second language and literacy learning. A group of privileged English language learners in grades 4-5 were observed during a 60-minute-long book club …
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Liberating Dialogue: Literature Discussions of Sociopolitical Texts Among African American Students in an Inner-City School
… literacy practices that emphasize authentic literature and its use in discussions, high-stakes testing associated with the CCSS has prompted some educators to implement curricula that mirrors the tests. Standards that address authentic literature and discussions are often pushed to the …
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Promoting critical literacy among emergent bilinguals: an exploration of their identities
… and their world” (Freire & Macedo, 1987) during literature discussions; that world is structured by societal, school, and classroom constructions of race, culture and languages when students discussed literature books that pertained to these topics. More specifically, I looked at how Latino …
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Recovered Voices: Fairy Tales and the Reading Child
In the traditional literature classroom, students are typically guided through literature discussions by their teacher, and then assessed on how well they can reiterate predetermined interpretations of what they have read. Within these literature discussions, classroom talk creates a power …
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Teacher-led VS. Peer-led: Discovering a Format for Engaging Literature Discussion In a Seventh Grade Classroom
<p>Classroom literature discussions have a broad range of styles and characteristics. This study explored whether seventh grade students in a suburban middle school were more engaged in literature class when discussions were peer-led or when discussions were teacher-led. Observations, lasting two …
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STUDENT EXPERIENCE WITH A TEACHER-DESIGNED DISCUSSION PROTOCOL
… student experience with a teacher-designed literature discussion protocol. The study took place in a dually enrolled high school literature classroom. The class consisted of 21 students, 13 of which were female and 8 of which were male. Throughout the course of the study, the students …
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Effective strategies for creating socially developing and accepting inclusion classrooms
… classroom were implemented; reading pertinent literature, discussions, and lunch conversations. During this time student artifacts were collected. After the implementation the observation rubrics, student surveys, and teacher interviews were completed. The pre-implementation observation rubrics …
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Freire and First Grade: In Pursuit of Generative Themes
… themes in the course of a regular day. Literature discussions, sharing time, and individual interviews yielded the field notes that were analyzed to produce the data for this study. When curriculum was negotiated around oral and written dialogue, various opportunities arose throughout …
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Latino Families and Parental Involvement: A Case Study of Home Literature Conversations in a Primary Bilingual Classroom
… Latino parents and their children during home literature conversations. The participating students were enrolled in my first and second grade classroom in East Los Angeles, California. I was guided by the following research questions in this qualitative teacher research study: a) What is the …
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Deeper Engagement: A Qualitative Study of Multicultural Fifth Graders' Involvement With Literature
… with and response to multicultural and dream literature in relation to the literature itself and the child's development during reading. The participants were four students in the researcher's ethnically diverse and scholastically heterogeneous fifth grade class; the school is located in a low …
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The power of children's dialogue: Taiwanese students' peer-led literature discussion
… on previous research in the area of peer-led literature discussion. Even though there are numerous studies investigating this type of literacy activity, little is known about Taiwanese elementary students’ participation in peer-led literature discussion. This study explored a group of six …
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An Empirical Investigation on the Provision of Non-Emergency Patient Transportation Services in South Africa (A Case Study of Mafikeng Provincial Hospital)
… the structure of the research questions and literature discussions, a pragmatic research analysis was adopted. In this regard, a sequential, explanatory mixed methods approach was used to collect and analyse data. Semi-structured interviews and structured self-completed research …
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Domesticity, Manhood, and the Natural Environment in Antebellum American Literature
Discussions of masculinity, the natural environment, or domestic culture are relatively common in antebellum literary scholarship, but this dissertation explores the less commonly discussed connections among these three areas of study. Likewise, ecofeminist scholars have done groundbreaking work …