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Frances Fitzgerald's "America Revised: History Schoolbooks In The Twentieth Century"

multiculturalism and reconstruction to cloud the truth and cultivate biased perspectives has caused Americas history textbooks to ...

A PHONICS CURRICULUM IN THE CLASSROOM

This 8 page PowerPoint slide presentation includes 24 slides. The topic is on creating a plan to implement a phonics based curric...

Wellness & Nutrition for Healthy Aging

p. 364). Due to the fact that eating behaviors tend to be established by early experience, it is important for healthy eating habi...

Construction of Njal's Saga

sections of the saga. For example, an analysis of the section detailing Thangbrands mission and the passages that deal with jurid...

Phonological Awareness and Reading: The Process of Language Acquisition

a part of the construction of spoken language. Specifically, phonological awareness if the conceptual view that spoken language c...

How Technology Affects Middle School Student Reading Achievement: A Field Experience

of technology to expand learning, especially in the area of literacy. In particular, this experience will seek to assess both tes...

Reading Disabilities

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

Scholarship (True Historical Analysis) And Contemporary Entertainment (Popular Culture): Erroneousness And Embellishment

the directors chose to employ properties of historical revisionism speaks to the inherent influence the concept of truth versus fi...

Phonological Awareness

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

English Language Learners Reading In Content Areas

studies demonstrate the differences between different types of language proficiency: conversational fluency, discrete language ski...

How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

a family and part of that beautiful communion involves eating, but yet interestingly enough it is also the source of their trouble...

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...

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 Reading in Special Education

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

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...

Reading Achievement and Personal Development Effects

a large number of low-income students (Picker, 2002). Because of the very low achievement scores, more than 70 elementary schools ...

Article Analysis: An Unconventional Use for Standardized Tests

Therefore, the researchers must demonstrate the purpose of their study through arguments that support the use of standardized test...

Language Testing from Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives

differ. Any form can be instrumental in returning lower-than-optimum scores on language tests. Teachers sensitive to the c...

Elementary Education and Difficulties in Writing and Reading

education, sometimes leaving little room for choice. This is true as teachers wrestle with their own autonomy and the school board...

Feminist Reading of King Lear by William Shakespeare

a man who is looking to the future. He looks to the future through his three daughters, imagining that his favorite, the youngest,...

Relaxation Techniques

Reading a book is also a relaxation technique for many people. Often, people read before going to bed, allowing them time to unwi...

Themes of Death and Disease in John Donne, Thom Jones, and Margaret Edson

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

Feminine Reading of Woolf's, A Room of One's Own

an intimate conversation among feminine equals. Men are excluded" (Marcus 79). She has, in essence, constructed an alternate fem...

An Analysis of Three Communications Articles

must learn to use the written word in manner considered appropriate by a "particular speech or discourse" community (McCarthy 234-...

Reading Instruction and Theory

travel comes up in the story, teacher can think out loud about what kind of travel mode that might be, using the picture as a clue...

Reading Disabilities and Exceptional Children Interventions

events and the relations of those events. This simultaneously gains insight into the brains representation of language and into t...

Literature and the Creature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

seen in any other character in the novel. He began to see that he was different, and not human. Then he came upon a bundle that...

Results of a Student Survey on Nonverbal Communication

Total 50 100.0 100.0 The majority of the respondents were Caucasian (80%), with only 1 Hispanic respondent. Ethnicity Frequ...

Reading Levels and Education Research

of whole language instruction, however, is that many children have difficulty moving from totally free self-expression to masterin...

Correlation Between Reading and Oral Language

learns to read by associating certain visual forms with these stored speech sounds" (Mundle, nd). As a child learns to talk, he ...