Sites of Synergy Shimek, Courtney
The Reading teacher,
January/February 2019, Volume:
72, Issue:
4
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The category of nonfiction picture books has changed in the past few decades, putting more emphasis on engaging writing styles, attention to accuracy, and using synergic relations between images and ...texts. As a result of this shift, the strategies taught to students for reading nonfiction picture books must change. The author presents five strategies that readers navigating new nonfiction picture books can use to comprehend all of the information provided by authors and illustrators: reading the pictures, tracking the words, focusing on the medium, analyzing the back matter, and highlighting the text in visual elements. When readers use these strategies, new nonfiction picture books encourage them to think critically, engage in their own research, and dive deeply into the content they are reading about.
En este artículo se propone establecer las coordenadas para el estudio de la formación del niño lector en Chile a partir del análisis de las publicaciones periódicas comprendidas entre 1860 y 1960, ...periodo conocido como el del Estado Liberal hasta los tiempos de la Reforma y Revolución. Se revisan algunas fuentes bibliográficas básicas para la comprensión de la problemática lectora en el Chile moderno junto con la consideración de ciertas herramientas teórico-conceptuales que ayudarían al estudio de un corpus ejemplificado con tres publicaciones periódicas de tres diferentes momentos, que muestran el proceso de modernización de las prácticas lectoras que dan paso al ejercicio de la lectura como actividad de entretenimiento
Research from dual and bilingual education programs shows that the use of a student's home language for reading instruction is one of the most beneficial practices for multilingual learners. Given ...the plethora of home languages encountered in public schools, how can teachers who do not speak the languages of their students utilize a student's home language as an asset during reading instruction? This article describes a case study of a second grade Japanese student. During instruction, the student read texts in both Japanese and English.
This essay outlines a number of daunting obstructions to a transnational historical approach in the Kindergarten to Grade Twelve Social Studies curriculum including a hyperlocal focus during ...elementary school, an inflexible national approach in middle and high school, and political pressure on national testing organizations to emphasize “American exceptionalism.” Yet it argues that there are countervailing currents, including the rise of public schools that use the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, pressure on elite schools to prepare students for global futures, and the opportunities for high school teachers to experiment with crosscurricular themes.
The Lithia Springs Global Literacy Community reflect on their efforts to integrate global literature into their regular curricula at all grade levels, introducing various world cultures and histories ...to students to better prepare them for living in an increasingly global community.
Global literature can be used to introduce students to global cultures, religions, and ideas as the main vehicle for developing empathy. Persona dolls created to represent a particular character from ...one of these texts allow students to connect to the story on a deeper level and critically engage with in.
Making Connections Matter Lenny Sánchez; Dara Bradley; Jessi Spinder Menold
WOW stories,
01/2014, Volume:
IV, Issue:
8
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Creating connections between students and literature allow for a deeper grasp of the narrative and more opportunities to critically engage with the text. Bringing in global literature to the ...classroom introduces more aspects of the text which can be made into connections, such as culture and language, to improve the literacy skills of students while providing a look into other cultures.
This vignette explores the use of global literature as a means for students to expand their understandings of culture, both their own and those of others. Students of a Spanish/English dual language ...classroom demonstrate their understandings of other cultures and how these cultures are discussed in a variety of media.
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