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- Schools
- In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 17
- Vietnam requires nine years of schooling. Although it is a relatively poor country, the literacy rate for adults is reported to be over 90 percent.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Teaching with disturbing images
- Photographs are especially powerful tools for explaining current and historical events — not least horrible or brutal events, such as war, genocide, famine, terrorism, slavery, and lynching. In fact, photographs are often used specifically to raise an...
- By David Walbert.
- Comics in the classroom
- Graphic novels aren't just “literature lite”: they're a genre you can use to explore philosophy, history, human interactions, visual literacy, and more with soon-to-be adults in a high school English class.
- Format: article
- By Ross White.
- Children's literature promotes understanding
- Bibliotherapy and critical literacy are two ways to use books to help children better understand themselves, others, and the world around them. This article explains both strategies and provides resources for selecting appropriate books.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Persuasive speaking: A classroom model
- In Arts of persuasion, page 3
- A plan for teaching persuasive speaking in the middle school classroom, with tips for speakers and on how to recognize bias.
- By Pamela Myrick and Sharon Pearson.
- Choosing books that are just right
- This teacher research study examines how students select books for independent reading and how teachers can help them make choices more appropriate to their reading levels.
- By Melinda Parks.
- Field trips in context
- Opportunities abound in North Carolina for hands-on interdisciplinary learning experiences.
- Format: article
- By Lesley Richardson.
- Learning to look at art
- Strategies for helping students develop visual literacy in looking at paintings and other forms of visual art.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Reading picture books
- Two strategies for helping children understand a story through illustrations.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Reading picture books: resources for teachers
- Illustrations, picturebook finding aids, and great picture book websites.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Resources for looking at art
- A guide to some of the best websites, activities, and print resources for building visual literacy through the study of art.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Writing and English as a Second Language
- Strategies for helping English Language Learners throughout the writing process.
- By Frances Hoch.
- Consider the source
- Information is everywhere — especially in the presence of the Internet. It's hard enough for adults to make sure that information is valid, but it's even harder for students to make that judgement. Here are some suggestions for helping students learn to recognize bad information when they see it.
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- Reading images: an introduction to visual literacy
- Images are all around us, and the ability to interpret them meaningfully is a vital skill for students to learn.
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
- Reading is for the boys (and girls)!
- This WebQuest for teachers looks at the difficult issue of how to get — and keep — boys interested in reading. It guides you through the research, then looks at text selection and pedagogy and helps you find specific strategies for narrowing the adolescent "literacy gap."
- Format: article
- By Kimberly Bowen.
- Reading photographs
- A picture is worth a thousand words — but which words? Questions can help students decode, interpret, and understand photographs thoughtfully and meaningfully.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
- Resources for teaching with photographs
- Websites, activities, books, and image collections for classroom use.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Teaching the features of effective writing
- In The five features of effective writing, page 1
- By organizing your instruction around focus, organization, support and elaboration, style, and conventions, you can help students become more effective writers and make your own job easier.
- Format: article
- By Kim Bowen and Kathleen Cali.
- Working together to get writing right
- Philosophical and practical reasons to support writing across the curriculum in high schools. A WebQuest for teachers.
- Format: article
- By Kim Bowen.
- Using a classroom webpage to communicate with parents
- Kathleen Eveleigh keeps her parents involved in her first-grade classroom by integrating a classroom webpage with her daily instruction.
- Format: article
- By Sydney Brown.
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