Schoolwide literacy days
Tags: LITERACY; STUDENT activities
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- Three program work at once to inspire kids to read. // Curriculum Review;Mar1992, Vol. 31 Issue 7, p20
Presents information about the programs that can help children to inspire in reading. Prizes of the student for each book they read at home; Simplest program for reading; Overview of the `Super Reader Program'; How the the logo of the t-shirt as prize for the contest of reading was change every...
- Literacy club promotes student reading. Bush, Ronald // Reading Today;Apr/May94, Vol. 11 Issue 5, p15
Discusses the literacy program of Hymera School in Sullivan county, Indiana for their students. Operation of a school bookshop; Development of the student-operated literacy club; Sources of grants received; Purpose of the club; Activities of the club; Organization of a book chain during summers.
- Community Literacy Day: A new school develops community support. Guth, Nancy // Reading Teacher;Nov2002, Vol. 56 Issue 3, p234
Presents information on a school event that involved the community in the celebration of literacy. Details on the planning of the event; Information on the books donated by community members; Benefits of the school event for the students.
- Reading Fun From Day One. Dennis, Steven // Teaching Pre K-8;Aug/Sep2002, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p86
Presents a school project about literacy and the joy of reading. Goal of the project; List of books that are connected with various subjects; Lessons learned from the project. INSET: Topic: Literacy.
- Reading, writing, and running: Literacy learning on the playground. Giles, Rebecca McMahon; Wellhousen, Karyn // Reading Teacher;Nov2005, Vol. 59 Issue 3, p283
This article focuses on literacy learning on the playground. Despite common teaching strategies, providing opportunities for literacy development during outdoor play is not as customary. Teachers can quickly remedy this unfortunate oversight with a few simple additions to their outdoor play...
- Studying Timed Repeated Partner Reading: A Classroom-Friendly Fluency Strategy. Goldsmith-Conley, Elizabeth; Barbour, Judy // Illinois Reading Council Journal;Spring2011, Vol. 39 Issue 2, p27
The article focuses on the use of the timed repeated partners reading as a teaching strategy to improve the student's fluency in reading in Illinois. The strategy has been considered to improve the speed and fluency of the reader. The teachers use the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy...
- Parent power. // Reading Today;Oct/Nov2002, Vol. 20 Issue 2, p14
Presents a sampling of parent involvement in school activities. Details on at-home reading programs which offer student's incentives such as prizes and free books; How parents instituted a one-on-one tutorial program called Parents As Tutors (PAT) which targets first-grade students functioning...
- the new literacies movement. Kist, William // Independent School;Summer2004, Vol. 63 Issue 4, p28
Focuses on the role of digital technology in curriculum and literacy instruction in the U.S. and Canada. Benefits of digital technology to students; Patterns of literacies assignments developed by teachers to implement a constructivist pedagogy; Challenges to creating new literacy classrooms.
- INCREASING READING INPUT IN JAPANESE HIGH SCHOOL EFL CLASSROOMS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY EXPLORING THE EFFICACY OF EXTENSIVE READING. Tanaka, Hiroya; Stapleton, Paul // Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal;Apr2007, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p115
A lack of reading quantity in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classrooms has remained one of the most serious problems faced by teachers of English in Japan. Although the extensive reading (ER) approach is regarded as having significant potential in addressing this problem, it is not used in...
