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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Fisher, Teresa R.; Albers, Peggy; Frederick, Temmy G. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2014
Young children frequently tell visual stories, drawing pictures to record and share their thoughts, feelings and understanding. How and what young children describe through art, especially when written language is not an option, is the focus of this interpretive analysis. A series of pictures by John, a 6-year-old boy, were drawn across the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Literacy Education, Young Children, Freehand Drawing
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Albers, Peggy; Frederick, Tammy; Cowan, Kay – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2009
How do primary students construct understandings of the opposite sex? In what ways do these constructions manifest in the visual texts created in literacy and language arts classrooms? Using visual discourse analysis (Albers, 2007) and scheme analysis (Sonesson, 1988) as interpretive methods, we analyzed the visual texts created by 23 third grade…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Semantics, Language Arts, Reader Text Relationship