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Picture Book Soldiers: Men And Messages, Christina M. Desai
Picture Book Soldiers: Men And Messages, Christina M. Desai
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
This study examines children's picture books about soldiers and war, including fiction, folktales, and historical fiction, analyzing their implicit and explicit messages about war and the military, and evaluating them for gender stereotyping. The soldiers are found to conform almost uniformly to an exaggerated male stereotype. Different value judgments about war and conflict resolution are found in the fiction vs. the historical fiction and in the historical fiction about earlier vs. later historical periods.
Spanish-English Code Switching In A Bilingual Academic Context, Ruth R. Becker
Spanish-English Code Switching In A Bilingual Academic Context, Ruth R. Becker
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
This study investigates the Spanish-English code switching of 60 elementary Mexican American students in a story retelling activity. The students' story retellings were examined according to Becker's (1997) model of code switching: structural linguistic, internal psycholinguistic, and external social factors. Results suggest there is a positive relationship between code-switched story retelling, oral language usage, and enhanced narrative skills. Implications suggest that teachers explore the use of code switching in a story retelling activity as a practical way to enhance bilingual elementary students' verbal skills and reading development.
Reading Horizons Vol. 42, No. 2
Reading Horizons Vol. 42, No. 2
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 42, issue 2.
Establishing Guidelines For Using Readers Theater With Less-Skilled Readers, Steven D. Rinehart
Establishing Guidelines For Using Readers Theater With Less-Skilled Readers, Steven D. Rinehart
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
The author reviews recent research findings concerning the benefits of readers theater for building oral reading accuracy and fluency and then identifies key guidelines for instructional implementation. Recommendations and conclusions place the focus on guidelines for classroom teachers who might want to experiment with readers theater as they work with children who face reading difficulties.
Investigating Inferences: Constructing Meaning From Expository Texts, Mary C. Mcmackin, Suenita Lawrence
Investigating Inferences: Constructing Meaning From Expository Texts, Mary C. Mcmackin, Suenita Lawrence
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Generating inferences during and after reading is a complex task; yet, one that is essential for complete understanding of texts. This report highlights the types of inferences four students in grades 2-5 drew while constructing meaning from expository passages. An analysis of their think alouds and recommendations for comprehension instruction are included.
Brain Surfing: A Strategy For Making Cross-Curricular Connections, Susan Davis Lenski
Brain Surfing: A Strategy For Making Cross-Curricular Connections, Susan Davis Lenski
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Many educators believe that teaching an integrated curriculum should help students develop cross-curricular connections. Often, however, students do not make connections between subject areas even when they are in classrooms with integrated units. This article presents a strategy called Brain Surfing that teachers can use to facilitate connections to subject areas during classroom discussions.
Early Language Learning With And Without Music, Douglas Fisher
Early Language Learning With And Without Music, Douglas Fisher
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Eighty students who spoke Spanish at home were randomly assigned one of four teachers. Two of the teachers used a great deal of music in their classrooms while the other two did not. The students and their teachers remained together for two years - kindergarten and first grade. Literacy achievement data suggests that music had a positive effect on oral language and reading scores. Differences focused on the use of music for morning opening, music and signing while working with words, and the use of music during listening stations.
Reading Horizons Vol. 42, No. 1
Reading Horizons Vol. 42, No. 1
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 42, issue 1.
Reading Horizons Vol. 42, No. 1
Reading Horizons Vol. 42, No. 1
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Complete Issue of Reading Horizons volume 42, Issue 1.
Using Thematic Units To Decrease Problematic Behavior In Students, Amy Stevens Griffith, Nancy Spence Horton
Using Thematic Units To Decrease Problematic Behavior In Students, Amy Stevens Griffith, Nancy Spence Horton
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Many students in general education classrooms exhibit problematic behavior at some point during their academic careers. These students often have special learning needs in reading instruction and instructional emphasis on appropriate behavior. Using thematic units for reading and language arts instruction can improve these students' reading skills and help students with problematic behavior learn more appropriate standards of conduct at the same time.
Inquiry Into Reading Assessment: Teachers' Perceptions Of Effective Practices, Mary B. Campbell
Inquiry Into Reading Assessment: Teachers' Perceptions Of Effective Practices, Mary B. Campbell
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Teachers confront a number of challenges in assessing children's literacy and one of the most fundamental is the selection of appropriate assessment tools. Teachers also continuously seek meaningful ways to document and assess student performance in formative and summative ways. The purpose of this study was to determine what elementary teachers' believe are the most effective assessment practices for gathering data about the reading performance of their students. Data collection was accomplished through the use of a Reading Assessment Survey distributed to 12 elementary schools throughout the greater Chicago area. The survey contained a listing of 38 assessment practices and …
Review Of Challenges Of Urban Education: Sociological Perspectives For The Next Century. Karen A. Mcclafferty, Carlos Alberto Torres And Theodor R. Mitchell (Eds.). Reviewed By Chad Ellett, Chad D. Ellett
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Book review of Karen A. McClafferty, Carlos Alberto Torres and Theodor R. Mitchell (Eds.), Challenges of Urban Education: Sociological Perspectives for the Next Century. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2000. $19.95 papercover.
Work Values Of Students And Their Success In Studying At The Study Centre For Social Work In Zagreb, Croatia, Mladen Knežiević, Marija Ovsenik
Work Values Of Students And Their Success In Studying At The Study Centre For Social Work In Zagreb, Croatia, Mladen Knežiević, Marija Ovsenik
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Work values are relatively common and permanent goals that we want to achieve through our professional roles. According to a number of research studies, work values are acquired relatively early in the process of socialization, and they are relatively strong and unchangeable. In this article we investigate the question, whether among the students of social work there is any relation between such gained work values and success in studying. The results show that the value of altruism, which most characteristically distinguishes social work as a profession, is significantly correlated with success in studying. On the other hand, the correlation between …
Review Of The Struggle For Control Of Public Education: Market Ideology Vs. Democratic Values. Michael Engel. Reviewed By Leon Ginsberg, Leon Ginsberg
Review Of The Struggle For Control Of Public Education: Market Ideology Vs. Democratic Values. Michael Engel. Reviewed By Leon Ginsberg, Leon Ginsberg
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Michael Engel, The Struggle for the Control of Public Education, Market Ideology vs. Democratic Values. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000. $54.50 hardcover, $19.95 papercover.
A Quantitative Description Of The Content Reading Practices Of Beginning Teachers, Mary W. Spor, Barbara Kane Schneider
A Quantitative Description Of The Content Reading Practices Of Beginning Teachers, Mary W. Spor, Barbara Kane Schneider
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
It is reasonable to assume that today's college literacy instruction addresses a variety of strategies for classroom reading instruction with preservice teachers. This paper describes the classroom practices of 92 K-12 beginning teachers with five or fewer years of teaching experience. We surveyed these 92 teachers relative to their knowledge of, use of, and interest in learning content reading strategies; their sources of information regarding reading strategies, and their confidences and concerils about preparing lessons.
Developing Preservice Teachers' Perspectives On Reader Response, Dana L. Grisham
Developing Preservice Teachers' Perspectives On Reader Response, Dana L. Grisham
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
This study examines preservice teachers' developing conceptions of reader response theory, specifically focusing on the importance of aesthetic response to students' engagement with and motivation for reading. Three intact classes over three semesters (N = 78) participated in an intervention through literature discussion circles after reading award-winning and multicultural children's and adolescent literature. They read a cycle of three novels in each class. Preservice teachers chose the books from multiple copies provided and responded in writing to each selection prior to meeting in small, student-run groups for discussion. Participants wrote dialectical journals for the first book, completed role sheets for …
Listen To Their Teachers' Voices: Effective Reading Instruction For Fourth Grade African American Students, J. Helen Perkins
Listen To Their Teachers' Voices: Effective Reading Instruction For Fourth Grade African American Students, J. Helen Perkins
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
This study identifies effective teaching methods that can enhance the reading skills of fourth grade African American students. Focus group interviews were conducted with 21 teachers. The teachers identified independent reading and writing, phonics and vocabulary, teacher modeling, the use of multicultural materials, engagement of parental involvement, incorporating prior knowledge, and cooperative learning as the methods they believed were most effective with this group of African American fourth grade students. This study provides a voice for educators. These findings also offer support for prior research, which has suggested that these methods are significant to enhance the reading skills of African …
Reading Horizons Vol. 41, No. 4
Reading Horizons Vol. 41, No. 4
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 41, issue 4.
Author Index
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Index to authors in volume 41.
Fathers' And Mothers' Book Selection Preferences For Their Four Year Old Children Abstract, Jim Anderson, Ann Anderson, Jon Shapiro, Jacqueline Lynch
Fathers' And Mothers' Book Selection Preferences For Their Four Year Old Children Abstract, Jim Anderson, Ann Anderson, Jon Shapiro, Jacqueline Lynch
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Twelve fathers and 12 mothers of four year olds were presented with 14 children's books representing various genres and were asked to select the five books they would read to their children in the coming week and to give reasons for their selections. They were then asked to identify those books they would not select and to provide reasons. There were some differences between mothers'/fathers' book selection and some differences between selecting for sons/daughters. Similar differences were noted in terms of those books which parents would not select.
Article Index
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Index to articles in volume 41.
Do Students Effectively Monitor Their Comprehension?, Brenda K. Bradshaw
Do Students Effectively Monitor Their Comprehension?, Brenda K. Bradshaw
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
This research is a preliminary investigation of students' awareness of their performance on comprehension tasks at reconstructive and constructive levels. After comprehension instruction, students were asked reconstructive and constructive level comprehension questions and asked to rate their performance on each level of questions. Students rated their performance higher than they actually performed on both levels of questions. They also rated their performance the same on the two levels of questions, although their performance on reconstructive questions was higher than on constructive questions.
The Effects Of An Early Intervention Program With Preservice Teachers As Tutors On The Reading Achievement Of Primary Grade At Risk Children, Jeanne B. Cobb
The Effects Of An Early Intervention Program With Preservice Teachers As Tutors On The Reading Achievement Of Primary Grade At Risk Children, Jeanne B. Cobb
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
This article presents quantitative data from an experimental research study investigating the effects of an early intervention tutorial program on at risk children's reading achievement. Preservice teachers in an emergent literacy course served as tutors for at risk first, second, and third graders. The t-tests for independent samples revealed that the experimental group outperformed the control group on the vowels subtest and on total reading score at the first grade level. No statistically significant differences were found in grades two and three.
Reading Horizons Vol. 41, No. 3
Reading Horizons Vol. 41, No. 3
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 41, issue 3.
A Model For Using Television And Video To Motivate Writing, Marie F. Doan Holbein, Valerie J. Bristor, Noorchaya Yahya
A Model For Using Television And Video To Motivate Writing, Marie F. Doan Holbein, Valerie J. Bristor, Noorchaya Yahya
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Three university consultants developed a model to explore the effectiveness of using television and video to motivate writing. Following a series of motivational and brainstorming sessions using television, video, and popular literature, twenty-three fifth grade students were assigned to cooperative groups where they wrote and videotaped dramatizations of short "teaser" scripts. Observations derived from the completed model reveal the compelling influence of television and video on the lives of children.
Off To The Write Start: A Parent-Teacher-Child Story, Julie Jackson Albee, Margaret Drew
Off To The Write Start: A Parent-Teacher-Child Story, Julie Jackson Albee, Margaret Drew
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
This article describes a parent involvement program for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade children. During the school year, students at each grade level come to the school for three evenings, with the goal of creating their own book in a different format at each session. Benefits of the program include: increased interaction between students and parents or other significant adults; teacher modeling of literacy support strategies; improved home-school communication; books written (and available for reading) at child's independent reading level; and increased familiarity of students and parents with teachers.