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Maplethorpe, Lois; Kim, Hyunah; Hunte, Melissa R.; Vincett, Megan; Jang, Eunice Eunhee – Journal of Literacy Research, 2022
This study investigated the extent to which students' questioning ability is associated with their literacy abilities, attitudes, perceived text understanding, and interest in the text they read. We further examined these relationships by the type of text they read to generate questions. Fifth- and sixth-grade students (N = 89) were asked to…
Descriptors: Literacy, Questioning Techniques, Inquiry, Grade 5
Domke, Lisa M. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2022
This mixed-methods study analyzed how elementary-school children translated while reading Spanish-English dual-language books (DLBs). Specifically, it investigated the types of strategies students used to translate words in DLBs, strategies' success, and differences in strategy use based on grade, home language(s), and oral reading accuracy.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Translation, English, Spanish
Zaidi, Rahat – Journal of Literacy Research, 2020
This collaborative action research project in Alberta, Canada, explored how dual-language books (DLBs) can foster literacy instruction and learner engagement through language awareness. Canada's changing demographics have resulted in mother tongue diversity and many urban schools identifying at least 25% of students as being English language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Childrens Literature, Learner Engagement, Metalinguistics
Malloy, Jacquelynn A.; Tracy, Kelly N.; Scales, Roya Q.; Menickelli, Kristin; Scales, W. David – Journal of Literacy Research, 2020
This research sought to develop argument as a problem-solving process by adding debate to social studies instruction with three groups of fifth-grade students. This design-based research (DBR) reports on the ways that instruction was refined across three topical units to develop argumentative agency and a critical participatory literacy. Students…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Debate, Problem Solving, Social Studies
Hikida, Michiko – Journal of Literacy Research, 2018
Many students of color who are also identified as "struggling" readers are likely to have negative experiences in school. In this article, I discuss the findings of a case study examining how reader identities emerged in and through language for such students. The discourse data analyzed here concern an interactional pattern in which the…
Descriptors: Literacy, Minority Group Students, Disadvantaged, Self Concept
Stevenson, Alma; Beck, Scott – Journal of Literacy Research, 2017
This article analyzes data from a summer literacy program for intermediate and middle-level children of migrant farmworkers. The program was grounded in a sociocultural perspective on literacy, stressing the importance of interaction and collaboration within socioculturally responsive pedagogy, using enabling literature to empower students.…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Literacy Education, Migrant Education, Social Influences
Lenters, Kimberly – Journal of Literacy Research, 2016
This case study examines the multimodal literacy practices of 11-year-old Nigel as he plays with assemblages of people, objects, and practices in his storywriting. The study asks "How does following the seemingly off-task multimodal literacy practices of one pre-adolescent youth across his home-community-school terrain provide insight into…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Writing Processes, Case Studies, Elementary School Students
Kesler, Ted; Gibson, Lenwood, Jr.; Turansky, Christine – Journal of Literacy Research, 2016
Using participatory action research, the first researcher functioned as co-teacher in a fifth-grade class in a large northeastern city public school. The researcher and classroom teacher guided 28 students working in book clubs to compose digital stories in response to historical fiction. The research questions were: (a) What interpretations did…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Grade 5, Elementary School Teachers
Zoch, Melody – Journal of Literacy Research, 2015
This ethnographic study reports on one elementary literacy coach's response to high-stakes testing and her approach to support third- through fifth-grade teachers in a Title I school in Texas. Sources of data included field notes and observations of classes and meetings, audio/video recordings, and transcribed interviews. The findings illustrate…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Literacy, High Stakes Tests, Elementary School Teachers
Boyd, Maureen P. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2015
The purpose of this article is to raise awareness of how the varied form and responsive and response-able use of teacher questions can invite and direct not only more student talk in classrooms but elicit specific and varied features of student talk that enhance comprehension building and provide evidence of student engagement and high-level…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, English (Second Language)
Certo, Janine – Journal of Literacy Research, 2015
In spite of views that children's writing development is in large part a linguistic complex process involved in their engagement within and across social activities in and out of school, the literature is scant on the wide range of semiotic resources that children may draw on to animate their poetry writing and performances. Drawing from a case…
Descriptors: Poetry, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Creative Writing
Klauda, Susan Lutz; Wigfield, Allan – Journal of Literacy Research, 2012
This study examined elementary school students' perceived support for recreational reading from their mothers, fathers, and friends. Participants, including 130 fourth graders and 172 fifth graders, completed the researcher-developed Reading Support Survey, which assesses how often children experience and how greatly they enjoy multiple types of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Recreational Reading
Dalton, Bridget; Proctor, C. Patrick; Uccelli, Paola; Mo, Elaine; Snow, Catherine E. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2011
This study examined the relative contribution of reading comprehension strategies and interactive vocabulary in Improving Comprehension Online (ICON), a universally designed web-based scaffolded text environment designed to improve fifth-grade monolingual English and bilingual students' reading achievement. Seventy-five monolingual English and 31…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Bilingual Students, Speech Communication, Reading Achievement
Christianakis, Mary – Journal of Literacy Research, 2010
This article relies on year-long ethnographic data to examine how the intersection of peer status, gender, and race influenced the role stances children took in one urban fifth grade classroom while participating in three different pedagogies: peer tutoring, cooperative peer editing, and collaborative writing. Informed by the sociocultural…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Editing, Collaborative Writing, Grade 5
Caldwell, JoAnne; Leslie, Lauren – Journal of Literacy Research, 2010
This study examines three questions: What kinds of think-aloud statements, in particular what kinds of inferences, are made by middle school students while reading expository text? Does thinking aloud affect comprehension as measured by recall and answers to questions? Does thinking aloud add value to the assessment of comprehension beyond what is…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Expository Writing
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