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50 Years of ERIC
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Gambrell, Linda B.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1996
Describes the Motivation to Read Profile (MRP), which assesses children's self-concepts as readers and the value they see in reading. Discusses its development and offers suggestions for its use with elementary students. Includes the MRP. (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Measures (Individuals), Reading Attitudes, Reading Motivation
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Emery, Donna W. – Reading Teacher, 1996
Discusses the limitations that 9- to 11 year-olds face when attempting to understand character perspectives. Describes how teachers can use "Story Maps with Character Perspectives" to help young readers comprehend stories, interpret characters, and grow in understanding other people. (SR)
Descriptors: Characterization, Elementary Education, Literature Appreciation, Reading Comprehension
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Bergeron, Bette S.; Rudenga, Elizabeth A. – Reading Teacher, 1996
Presents and explains a framework that can be used to determine the potential authenticity of teaching practices. Describes the potential for authenticity offered by thematic literacy instruction. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Literacy, Thematic Approach
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Klesius, Janell P.; Griffith, Priscilla L. – Reading Teacher, 1996
Identifies the characteristics of "lapreading" in parent-child dyads. Describes the authors' implementation of interactive storybook reading routines with kindergarten children, including the components of lapreading that emerged, and explains what they learned about the use of interactive storybook reading in kindergarten classrooms. (SR)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, High Risk Students, Kindergarten
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Freeman, Evelyn B.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1996
Presents brief annotations of 46 illustrated children's books on cycles: daily cycles, seasonal cycles, life cycles, generations, and cycles in text. (SR)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education
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Enz, Billie J.; Searfoss, Lyndon W. – Reading Teacher, 1996
Offers Home Literacy Ideas--practical suggestions that involve children in home literacy. Discusses classroom activities and ideas for supporting literacy at home. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Literacy
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Fisher, Douglas; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1996
Discusses the myths related to inclusive education and offers suggestions for enhancing every child's education. (SR)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools
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Saccardi, Marianne C. – Reading Teacher, 1996
Offers overviews of 13 recent predictable books for children, noting books that invite drama activities and books that lead to writing activities. Suggests ways to help young children become confidant and joyful readers and writers. (SR)
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Primary Education
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Morrow, Kathy – Reading Teacher, 1996
Describes using book character cards (in trading card format) as a way to share books. (SR)
Descriptors: Characterization, Class Activities, Elementary Education, Literature Appreciation
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Henderson, Alayna M. – Reading Teacher, 1996
Describes using reading centers, called Reading Choices, placed around a kindergarten room to provide kindergarten students with more opportunities to read and interact with stories and with print. (SR)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Independent Reading, Kindergarten
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Guthrie, John T. – Reading Teacher, 1996
Shares the author's vision of literacy engagement. Offers a portrait of an engaged fifth-grade literacy learner and then discusses what engagement in literacy is, why it is important, how classroom contexts foster literacy engagement, and how teachers can build engaging classroom contexts. (SR)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Literacy, Student Attitudes
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Button, Kathryn; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1996
Describes how interactive writing is used in one primary classroom, and shows how it provides a means for teachers to engage in effective literacy instruction within the framework of constructing texts filled with personal and collective meaning. Discusses the roots of interactive writing, interactive writing in practice, what interactive writing…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten
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Heald-Taylor, B. Gail – Reading Teacher, 1996
Describes three different ways of looking at literature instruction: curriculum as fact, curriculum as activity, and curriculum as inquiry. (SR)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Elementary Education, Literature Appreciation, Models
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Au, Kathryn H.; Scheu, Judith A. – Reading Teacher, 1996
Discusses how to support teachers through the challenges of full implementation of holistic instruction in the classroom. Examines the effectiveness of the Kamehameha Elementary Education Program in Hawaii. Finds that holistic instruction can be effective in improving the literacy achievement of students of diverse cultural and linguistic…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Holistic Approach
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Freeman, Evelyn B., Ed.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1996
Presents brief annotations of 39 children's books, for children ages 3 to 10 and up, which all invite conversation. (SR)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Material Selection
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