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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"literacy teaching"”.
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Language and Literacy: Teaching Elementary Students to Write
Elementary writing instruction & curriculum.
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The shifting shape of useful knowledge in literacy teaching
… for a PhD explores some of the paradigms of literacy research, and how teachers are positioned to use the knowledge generated to inform literacy education in schools. It draws on the candidate's published work from specific intervention and research projects to examine, on one hand, how a …
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Critical Pedagogy and literacy teaching in Grade 4 classrooms
… investigated the use of critical pedagogy in literacy teaching in the Grade 4 classrooms of two Quintile 1-4 schools on the Cape Flats, in the Western Cape. Its purpose was to provide Grade 4 teachers in disadvantaged schools on the Cape Flats with an opportunity to share their experiences of …
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THE IMPACT OF MINDSETS ON LITERACY TEACHING IN HOMESCHOOLING ENVIRONMENTS: A CHAT ANALYSIS
… mediators of, and mediated by, the activity of literacy teaching and learning in homeschooling environments. I reached over a hundred homeschooling parents through network sampling and a hundred parents submitted a survey designed to place them in one of four quadrants on a grid, assigning them …
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Dual Language Teachers' Changing Views of Spanish Literacy Teaching and Learning as Influenced by Critical Dialogue
… the severe lack of quality and authentic Spanish literacy instructional practices. There were two major purposes. The first was to examine the relationships between Dual Language (DL) teachers views on Spanish literacy instructional practices, their students', and the texts from which they taught …
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Continuing professional teacher development: a case of mathematical literacy teaching in Soutpansberg North Circuit of Vhembe District
… achievement and schooling in Mathematical Literacy. This study adopted a qualitative research design. The qualitative research method was used to collect data. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. The population comprised of all Mathematical Literacy teachers, heads of …
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The application of new breakthrough to literacy teaching methods by grade one teachers in two Schools in Lusaka
… has put in place the New Breakthrough to Literacy to help grade one pupils read local languages, studies show that some children who have gone through NBTL fail to break through to literacy. The questions on the mind of parents and scholars in Zambia is why is the situation like this, …
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The application of new breakthrough to literacy teaching methods by grade one teachers in two Schools in Lusaka
… has put in place the New Breakthrough to Literacy to help grade one pupils read local languages, studies show that some children who have gone through NBTL fail to break through to literacy. The questions on the mind of parents and scholars in Zambia is why is the situation like this, …
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The Promise of Financial Peace: Congregations, Personal Financial Literacy Teaching, and the Unique Appeal of Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University
… United States congregations: personal financial literacy teaching in the congregational context. Proceeding on the basis of a statistical analysis of the National Study of Congregations' Economic Practices (NSCEP), the paper investigates what kinds of congregations engage in personal financial …
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The Impact of Collaborative Literacy Coaching on Middle and High School Teachers' Personal and General Sense of Efficacy for Literacy Teaching
… the impact of a nine month collaborative literacy coaching (CLC) initiative on middle and high school content teachers' personal and general sense of efficacy for literacy teaching. A variety of data, including but not limited to transcripts of weekly collaborative literacy coaching …
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Peripheral Normativity: Language and literacy, teaching and learning in two Grade Four classrooms in an under-resourced school in the Western Cape
… The aim of this research was to investigate how literacy practices in a socially situated domain, such as a classroom in a poorly-resourced school, are shaped by both the internal dynamics of classroom teaching as well as by external factors beyond the school, relating to the social location of …
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Effectiveness of School Based Continuing Proffessional Development in the Provision of Literacy Teaching Skills in Selected Schools of Livingstone District-Southern Province,Zambia
… of education. It has been observed that the literacy levels in Zambia were as low as 65% in 2015 revealing a drop from the 70.6% in 2013 according to UNESCO. This could be attributed to poor teaching techniques and knowledge in literacy teaching. Despite the emphasis on school based teacher …
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Effectiveness of School Based Continuing Proffessional Development in the Provision of Literacy Teaching Skills in Selected Schools of Livingstone District-Southern Province,Zambia
… of education. It has been observed that the literacy levels in Zambia were as low as 65% in 2015 revealing a drop from the 70.6% in 2013 according to UNESCO. This could be attributed to poor teaching techniques and knowledge in literacy teaching. Despite the emphasis on school based teacher …
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Exploring teachers' knowledge and practice of multiliteracies pedagogy: A narrative inquiry
Multiliteracies encapsulates literacy that is understood as deictic and plural. Furthermore, advances in digital technologies and digital spaces are encouraging the emergence of new literacy practices and new texts. This phenomenon presents teachers with the need to develop a repertoire of literacy …
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The influence of schooling conditions and teaching practices on curriculum implementation for Grade 4 reading literacy development
… of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2006 highlighted concerns about support for and the quality of reading literacy teaching in South African primary schools. In South Africa there is a paucity of research outlining schooling conditions and teachers’ reading …
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English Literacy Curricula in a Sino-Canadian Transnational Education Program: Teachers’ Implemented Curriculum
This case study explored the English literacy curricula in a Sino-Canadian Transnational Education Program that is accredited by British Columbia (BC). Underpinned by nested pedagogical orientations and critical multimodal literacies, this study focuses on how the BC English literacy curricula were …
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Stock Stories Versus Counterstories: A Contemporary Retelling and Centering of Disenfranchised Narratives
<p>This study examines the literacy narratives of disfranchised educators. It unveils the toll the “literacy myth” has taken on their educational pursuits in American institutions. Through these published narratives, the study explores the ways in which the Eurocentric ideology dominates academic …
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Educators' perceptions and practices regarding early literacy instruction and language issues in a Cape Town township primary school
This thesis examines the teaching practices and ideas about language and teaching that Foundation Phase educators hold as regard literacy and language issues, and the effect of these ideas and practices on children’s learning. An ethnographic-style case study approach was used to examine …
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Scripted curriculum and the quest for improving reading for meaning: Conceptions of language and literacy in Malawi's Grade 4 English scripted curriculum and amongst Grade 4 English teachers
… policy, practice and opinions about language and literacy teaching are consciously or subconsciously underpinned by particular conceptualisations of language and literacy (Ivanic, 2004). These conceptions about language and literacy teaching are usually reflected in curriculum documents and …
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A Critical Race and Critical Whiteness Theory Analysis of Preservice Teachers' Racialized Practices in a Literacy Across the Curriculum Course
… while they participated in a university-based literacy across the curriculum course that included a school-based tutoring component. Research questions asked: 1) what racialized practices were enacted by preservice content-area teachers when they participated in a required literacy across the …
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