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Reading as a Form of Resistance

imagine a more severe disparity of power than the one that exists in present-day Iran since its revolution and the institution of ...

The Importance of Cultural Skills in Reaching Multicultural Students

chief factor in effective learning in a multicultural classroom. The hypothesis can be presented that:...

Readings/Educational Philosophy

the teacher would be naturally drawn to the Socratic method of instruction, which relies on the teacher attempting to bring forth ...

SIM Test Strategies: Literature Review

students. There are four conditions that must be maintained within this group: 1. "Both group and individual needs are valued and...

Banned Books In California: K-12

attempt to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around ...

Reading Disabilities

regarding a definition of RD that is widely acceptable (Siegel and Smythe, 2005). Researchers have not been able to agree on defi...

Identifying Terms

she first illustrates that bean counting was something that President Bill Clinton referred to and perhaps defined, for the purpos...

The Shipman in The Canterbury Tales

way down the social ladder. The Shipman, i.e., the "sailor," is placed between Chaucers description of the Cook and the "Doctor of...

'Snake' by D.H. Lawrence

In five pages this poem of D.H. Lawrence's is compared with a reader's first reaction as compared to second and third readings tha...

Nature and the Poems of Emily Dickinson

This paper looks at Dickinson's views about and relationship with nature through a reading of several of her poems. The author lo...

Comparing Three Passages of Shakespeare's "King Lear," All Outakes From ACT I (I.i.85-93), (I.iv.106-126), and (I.i.148-159),

This comparison paper involving "King Lear" determines the patterns that arise when the passages are read next to each o...

Child Development as Presented in Harry Potter, Pokemon and the Iron Giant

The writer argues that many things can be learned about child development by reading the Harry Potter books, and by viewing the mo...

Reading Analysis of Cary et al, Eds.' The Social Fabric

doing, they demonstrate that each group that collectively contributed to the American "quilt" had to face enormous hardships. By d...

Computers in the Reading Classroom

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which computers can assist children in developing reading skills are discussed in ...

Close Readings/Darker Face of the Earth & Oedipus

an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...

Teaching Reading in Special Education

difficult to discern whether systematic feedback, metacognitive knowledge ... or the combination of feedback and metacognitive kno...

Narrative of Equiano & Douglass/A Comparison

resisted the imposition of another name, Gustavus Vassa, by his master. Nevertheless, despite being treated as an animal, Douglass...

Phonological Awareness

as this allows understanding to develop. In their 1982 study, Wolf and Morris discuss "Tony" a young boy who demonstrated both ex...

Reading Fluency

read aloud together (Welsch 180). This strategy actively engages the learner for a longer period of time in oral reading than the ...

Teaching Strategies for Reading Comprehension

In seven pages this paper presents a literature review on various elementary school teaching strategies for reading comprehension....

Comprehension, Reading, and Cognition

In seven pages the cognitive process is examined generally befor the focus shifts to how comprehension and reading pertains to cog...

Them by Joyce Carol Oates

In five pages this paper describes what the writer personally enjoyed about the text and what value can be gained from reading it....

Applying the Literary Lessons of E.M. Forster and Henry David Thoreau

This paper examines the importance of being able to apply the teachings found in great literary works such as those of Thoreau and...

Teachers and What They Should Know About Grammar

In thirty pages this research paper provides a literature review supporting a shift in grammar teaching within the reading and wri...

Native American Students' Acquisition of Language and Reading Level and the Effects of Culture and History

In five pages this paper discusses how various cultural and historical factors impact the acquisition of language and reading unde...

Why Ralph Waldo Emerson Should be Read by High School Students

This paper discusses why Ralph Waldo Emerson should be read by high school students in six pages. Four sources are cited in the b...

Children and Home Reading Prior to Kindergarten

In ten pages this paper examines children's prekindergarten reading in a consideration of its impact and issues that can result. ...

Reading and the Acquisition of Language Acquisition

In four pages this report discusses language acquisition processes for children and the applies those to reading educational proce...

'Sonnet 75' from Edmund Spenser's Amoretti

In five pages this essay argues that the sonnet's meaning goes far deeper than an initial reading might imply. One source is cite...

The Court of King Hrothgar in Beowulf

The writer uses a close reading of the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and in particular the events at King Hrothgar's court, to ex...