In this paper, the nature of learning to participate in reading lessons in one classroom during the first year of school is examined. The joint research approaches of ethnography and ethnomethodology are used to investigate how interactions are negotiated between teacher and child during lessons and ...
Challenges of building skilled readers in the classroom When K-12 teachers and schools lack high-quality curricular materials and research-based instructional approaches, it’s more difficult to teach students the language comprehension skills they need to become skilled readers. Some of these challenges...
The social constructivist theory emphasizes the child's environment as she learns to read. This theory states that children gain knowledge within their culture and that they learn best with the help of an adult. Whole language approaches to reading, which emphasize the overall meaning of a text ...
Because the controversy is enmeshed in the philosophical differences between traditional and progressive (or new) approaches, differences that have divided educators for years. The progressive challenge the results of laboratory tests and classroom studies on the basis of a broad philosophical skepticism ...
Rather than simply explaining parts of a text or story to students to help them understand it better, you can teach them different cognitive approaches that they can then use to enhance their reading skills and comprehension. This normally involves some level of basic support in the beginning, ...
However, motivation to participate in class discussions was not affected by thetendency of learners to participate in discussion via the weblog.doi:50Ahmad Nasaruddin SulaimanAsiah KassimThemes in Science and Technology Education. The Educational Approaches to Virtual Reality Technologies Laboratory, ...
A re-envisionment of these approaches in terms of the pragmatist reader, a concept derived from Norbert Wiley's 'pragmatism's self' and the findings of a recent case study into classroom reading, leads to a view of meaning-making during reading events as dialogic, deploying Peirce's '...
Five different approaches to collaboration were identified, but implementation differed across sites. Teachers and interns as a whole perceived the intervention program as beneficial for students; moreover, interns and teachers believed that they learned a great deal from working with each other. ...
Flexibility and Creativity– Tasks can be accomplished in more ways than one. Everyone approachesproblem-solvinga little differently, which is how we learn! “My, what nice folks. I’m going to like working here,” said Amelia Bedelia.” ...
They write that it is important to integrate different strategies and approaches in the classroom, such as direct instruction, summarizing, and explicit attention to vocabulary. It is important that students know why and when strategies are useful, and to prompt students to use them both during ...