The middle school years are most difficult because students now have to use reading to learn in all content areas. Low-performing students who daily face reading difficulties in school often feel helpless in their desire to become better readers...
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers; Reading; Second language acquisition
Teaching reading in the mainstream classroom is a challenge. This challenge is
compounded when trying to meet the needs of English language learners. Recently,
Response to Intervention (RTI) has been suggested as a framework for classroom
teachers...
Writing centers; English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher); Oral reading
Reading aloud in writing center sessions is a common practice, one that is both under-studied and under-theorized. In an attempt to begin to address this gap, this dissertation conducts an empirical analysis of three different methods of reading...
This study investigated teachers' inclusion of racially diverse literature within their classroom libraries, how the representations within the literature compared with the students in the classrooms, the inclusivity of students' book selections,...
Amish--Books and reading; Amish--Ohio--Social life and customs; Literacy--Ohio
Following in the tradition of scholars who treat literacy in context such as Deborah Brandt, Shirley Brice Heath, and David Barton and Mary Hamilton, I conducted my dissertation research not in an academic classroom but in the valleys of Hanley, a...
Narrative causal understanding is related to a variety of school-related skills such as reading comprehension, and memory. Previous research shows a developmental trend in the ability to use and understand causal connections that begins at age 4...
Children; Men; Women; Animals; Toys; School children; Reading; Sewing
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at left: Baby playing with doll in pillow-filled basket, with dog on pillow outside basket; seated girl wearing dress with crinolines holds something up to standing woman wearing dress with bustle;...
Children; Men; Women; Animals; Schools; Play (Recreation); Toys; Mills; Reading
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at left: Boy kneeling in prayer before bed; swan; boy with stick chasing dog, which is watching cat on stump; two boys playing catch; boy reading at desk, with other children and man standing at...
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the caged lion, the saddle, and the man wearing vest resting on log, holding axe, while boy carries sheaves of wheat, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this...
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the paddle-wheel steamboat, the zeppelin, the teapot or genie bottle, the three-dimensional rectangle, the flower with 9 spokes, the eagle perched on shield, the...
Advertisements; Children; Books; Textbooks; Animals; Reading; Men
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the JPM & Co. advertisement and the New Second and New Third School Readers, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of,...
Filson Club Reading Room, Louisville, Kentucky. An orderly room with a wall of low bookshelves holding hardback books under a line of portraits. Three rectangular tables have some books resting them. Pictures and documents hang between the windows....
World War, 1914-1918--France; Reading; Beds; Newspapers; Military life
André Jeunet sits on the edge of a small wooden bed, or cot, reading a newspaper during World War I. He appears to be in a low-ceiling room, attic, or loft. Similar beds or cots are seen in image ULPA 2004.003.020A.
World War, 1914-1918--France; Reading; Soldiers; Military uniforms
Godet, a French soldier and close friend of photographer André Jeunet, sits reading a letter. Insignia for the 139e Régiment d'Infanterie is clearly visible on the collar of his uniform.
Jean Thomas' mother, Kate Smith Bell, sits outdoors with a book on her lap, reading to a young blonde girl. A frame house is visible behind them, likely the Bell residence in Ashland, Kentucky. Title supplied by cataloger.
