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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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Griffith, Robin R. – Reading Horizons, 2010
This study provides insight into the role of the elementary school writing teacher in helping students learn to "read like writers" (Smith, 1983). This case study documents how one fourth-grade teacher employed a gradual release of responsibility model as she deliberately planned activities that drew students' attention to well-crafted writing.…
Descriptors: Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Case Studies
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Bintz, William P.; Dillard, Jill – Reading Horizons, 2007
This article describes findings from a classroom-based action research project conducted by two in-school teachers, a literacy coach and a 4th grade teacher, implementing a new integrated literacy and social studies curriculum and the changes they made in curricular practices and beliefs over a three-year period of time. A university professor…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Teacher Researchers, Research Methodology, Educational Change
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Black, Wendy L. – Reading Horizons, 2004
This study investigates the manner in which retrospective miscue analysis involves metacognition by analyzing the discourse of weekly retrospective miscue analysis (RMA) sessions conducted with a fourth grade reader over five months. A preliminary structural discourse analysis of the sessions reveals several procedural and format features of the…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Discourse Analysis, Metacognition, Miscue Analysis
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Hedrick, Wanda B.; Harmon, Janis M.; Linerode, Philip M. – Reading Horizons, 2004
This investigation focused on the vocabulary beliefs and instructional practices of social studies teachers in intermediate and middle school grades as well as their use of teachers' manuals. Using a self-reporting survey to measure these beliefs and practices, we found some discrepancy between what teachers believe about vocabulary learning and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary, Social Studies