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...
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980--Criticism and interpretation; Percy, Walker, 1916-1990--Criticism and interpretation; Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967--Criticism and interpretation; Nichols, Mike--Criticism and interpretation; Existentialism in art;...
Jean-Paul Sartre's existential philosophy concerns the free human individual,
particularly his possibilities to continuously create his own identities. Human existence is
never defined by objects, and he is only determined by his own actions. As...
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.
Schools; Classrooms; Children; Desks; Teachers; Stoves; Newspapers; People
Boys and girls sit at iron and wood desks in a classroom while a woman observes. The students are reading a newspaper titled Southern Agriculturist. The boys wear sweaters or jackets over button up shirts with ties. One girl has short bobbed hair,...
Three women are sitting on the lawn of a house reading a newspaper, the Chicago Sunday Record Herald. The woman on the left is Wilna Coyner Ensley and the woman in the middle is Lucile A. Furnas. They are all wearing dresses and have their hair up.
World War, 1914-1918--France; Soldiers; Military life; Reading
French soldier reads as he reclines on a cot during World War I. Two other soldiers are sitting behind him in what appears to an attic or barn loft. They are probably members of the 139e Régiment d'Infanterie, and are believed to be in...
