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Barnes, Melissa; Tour, Ekaterina – Literacy, 2023
While digital multimodal composing, underpinned by a critical literacies approach, provides opportunities for students to make informed semiotic choices and voice concerns about social issues, there is limited research exploring how digital multimodal composing is employed to interrogate and challenge the entanglements of language, immigration…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Curwood, Jen Scott; Jones, Katelyn – Literacy, 2022
Spoken word poetry encourages youth to engage in identity construction, resist oppression and construct counternarratives. Through participating in community-based slams, school workshops and online events, young people can take part in visible activism through exploring their own identity, power and agency and seeing themselves as change agents.…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Poetry, Activism, Identification (Psychology)
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Gannaway, Jessica M. – Literacy, 2022
This paper employs autoethnography in a multilingual indigenous community in the north of Australia to examine the in-practice challenges of both oracy and dialogue in a classroom in which shared language and culture are minimal. Through narrative, this paper examines some dilemmas of dialogue, particularly in regard to the ontological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Oral Language, Literacy
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Nicholas, Maria; Rouse, Elizabeth – Literacy, 2021
Learning to read is a process that begins well before children commence formal schooling and well before children learn to decode print. Children's early reading skills are, first and foremost, foundationally contingent upon children's oral language and phonological awareness proficiencies -- skills that can be mapped across a continuum of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Reading, Reading Instruction, Preschool Children
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Vanden Dool, Carly; Simpson, Alyson – Literacy, 2021
Research indicates a powerful correlation between students' reading enjoyment, motivation and achievement. This Australian case study investigates how reading for pleasure (RfP) approaches are demonstrated in the teaching of reading in a Stage 1 (6-year-old to 7-year-old students) classroom. The methodology was designed to mirror aspects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Recreational Reading, Early Childhood Education, Reading Instruction
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Daffern, Tessa; Mackenzie, Noella Maree – Literacy, 2020
Spelling is a key transcription skill for writing. While little is understood about the particular challenges some students experience when learning to spell, explicit instruction is known to improve spelling performance. The study reported in this article draws on eight case studies from a larger Australian mixed-methods study examining spelling…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Error Patterns