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Fostering Preschool Emergent Literacy Development Through Parent Involvement In The Preschool Classroom, Jamie S. Devries Apr 2021

Fostering Preschool Emergent Literacy Development Through Parent Involvement In The Preschool Classroom, Jamie S. Devries

Masters Projects

Kindergarten readiness standards have increased drastically over the years due to government legislation and a push for student achievement growth. This has led preschool teachers to feel a sense of urgency to prepare students as best they can for the increasingly rigorous academic demands of kindergarten. Preschool teachers are calling upon all possible resources to help prepare students for kindergarten, specifically parents. Research supports parent involvement in both the home and preschool classroom for emergent literacy growth. However, many parents, who likely would be keen to help, are not aware of how much the expectations for kindergarten readiness have changed …


Literacy Achievement Gap Of Elementary English Learners, Bethany Kamps Apr 2021

Literacy Achievement Gap Of Elementary English Learners, Bethany Kamps

Masters Projects

Elementary aged students should be reading at grade level at the end of each school year. However, English Learners (ELs) are consistently not meeting this goal. The rise of ELs and current legislation has forced classroom teachers to become the primary educator for EL students. These factors contribute to the literacy achievement gap of elementary EL students. Embedded in a six-week summer literacy program, this project proposes implementing teacher professional development to help close this academic achievement gap. Throughout this PD, teachers will engage in learning centered around effective practices for teaching ELs, team collaboration and coaching, and cultural competency.


The Life Of An Apology, Lilah M. Parker Apr 2021

The Life Of An Apology, Lilah M. Parker

Honors Projects

Apologies, the development of and the aftermath from, are present in almost all of society. For that reason, they are arguably one of the most interesting forms of human interaction. This paper will review various sources of literature in an attempt to understand what kind of power an apology holds, as well as where it comes from. This will be done, first by developing a familiarity with the psychology behind certain emotions that influence apology making behaviors. Focus will be placed specifically on the developmental psychology of self-conscious emotions and the idea of self-esteem. These ideas of self awareness and …


Engaging Elementary Students Of Color In Culturally Relevant Teaching, Hilary S. O'Neill Apr 2021

Engaging Elementary Students Of Color In Culturally Relevant Teaching, Hilary S. O'Neill

Masters Projects

The United States population has and is continuing to become more diverse. This is evident in our country’s schools as there is an increasing number of students of color in our classrooms. The problem is that national standardized assessment data shows students of color perform significantly lower than their white peers across all content areas. Numerous factors have been studied as possible reasons for the persisting gap. This project focuses on some of the in-school contributing factors, such as teacher diversity, inadequate curriculum, and the lack of diversity found in curriculum and children’s literature. As the gap in achievement has …


Second Language Learning In Elementary Years: Cognitive And Social-Emotional Benefits, Brooke Elenbaas Apr 2021

Second Language Learning In Elementary Years: Cognitive And Social-Emotional Benefits, Brooke Elenbaas

Masters Projects

All through the world bilingualism is a normal part of school, work, and culture creating cognitive and social-emotional benefits (Fan, 2016; Marian & Shook, 2012). The United States is a unique educational system, distinctly geared towards monolinguals, specifically English, especially in the elementary schools. The absence of second language learning at the elementary grades is a gap districts should seek to fill as research shows brain development positively effecting cognitive and social-emotional learning during this early stage of development (Abutalebi et al., 2011). This project is an in-service designed for elementary school districts pursuing a better understanding of why second …


Writing As A Vessel For Thinking: Incorporating Self-Regulation, Metacognition, And Formative Assessment In The Middle School Ela Classroom, Alyssha Ginzel Apr 2021

Writing As A Vessel For Thinking: Incorporating Self-Regulation, Metacognition, And Formative Assessment In The Middle School Ela Classroom, Alyssha Ginzel

Masters Projects

Writing is not only a means of demonstrating what one knows, it is a vessel to knowing. Thus, secondary writing curricula should support students’ learning and knowing. Evidence from meta-analyses suggests that an emphasis on self-regulated instruction to teaching writing (Graham, 2018a; Graham, 2020; Graham & Perin, 2007), metacognitive strategies (Hacker, 2018; Madison et al., 2019), and an emphasis on formative assessment and feedback throughout the writing process (Black & Wiliam, 1998; Fleischer, 2013; Madison et al., 2019) are among the practices with the highest effect sizes on students’ thinking and writing. When purposefully integrating these approaches and practices, secondary-level …


Classroom Management, Stevie Auld Brinkerhoff Mar 2021

Classroom Management, Stevie Auld Brinkerhoff

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


The Abc's Of Reading Strategies For Volunteers, Michigan Reading Journal Mar 2021

The Abc's Of Reading Strategies For Volunteers, Michigan Reading Journal

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Teaching Language Arts Multiculturally: Implications For K-12 Teachers, Mahmoud F. Suleiman Mar 2021

Teaching Language Arts Multiculturally: Implications For K-12 Teachers, Mahmoud F. Suleiman

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Book Club: Tackling A Problem Of Practice In Literacy Education, Taffy E. Raphael Mar 2021

Book Club: Tackling A Problem Of Practice In Literacy Education, Taffy E. Raphael

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Write First, Spell Later: Why Allow Nvntd Splg?, Karen M. Bell Mar 2021

Write First, Spell Later: Why Allow Nvntd Splg?, Karen M. Bell

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Pizza, Pages, And Family Engagement: A Simple Approach To Family Literacy Night, Jennie Baumann Mar 2021

Pizza, Pages, And Family Engagement: A Simple Approach To Family Literacy Night, Jennie Baumann

Michigan Reading Journal

Family engagement in schools is a worthy but difficult pursuit. Between scheduling challenges, family needs, and other systemic factors, how can educators encourage family participation? This article details a simple practice using pizza, existing curriculum, and local resources as a way of working smarter to create a culture of family engagement around literacy.


Assessing Young Children’S Language And Nonverbal Communication In Oral Personal Narratives, Shelley Stagg Peterson, Nazila Eisazadeh, Andrea Liendo Mar 2021

Assessing Young Children’S Language And Nonverbal Communication In Oral Personal Narratives, Shelley Stagg Peterson, Nazila Eisazadeh, Andrea Liendo

Michigan Reading Journal

In this article, we describe tasks and an assessment framework, collaboratively designed with kindergarten teachers in a northern rural Canadian school district, to assess young children’s language and nonverbal communication. Our analysis of 44 five-year old children’s language samples showed that children usually provided information about the name or role of at least one character in their narrative, although a few children referred to characters only using pronouns and a few provided information about multiple features of characters. The events and ideas in most children’s narratives were loosely connected, although some children used conjunctions to connect them and even explained …


Full Issue: Volume 53, No. 2 Mar 2021

Full Issue: Volume 53, No. 2

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Improving Literal And Interpretive Reading Proficiency In The Writing Classroom, Julie Ann Mix Feb 2021

Improving Literal And Interpretive Reading Proficiency In The Writing Classroom, Julie Ann Mix

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Personal Writing And Basics: Reflections From A Writing Project Summer Institute, Ron Sudol Feb 2021

Personal Writing And Basics: Reflections From A Writing Project Summer Institute, Ron Sudol

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Mixing It Up With Dickinson: Two High School Poetry Workhops, Terry Blackhawk Feb 2021

Mixing It Up With Dickinson: Two High School Poetry Workhops, Terry Blackhawk

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Voices In Michigan Literacy: An Interview With Dr. Jim Cipielewski, Kathleen F. Clark Feb 2021

Voices In Michigan Literacy: An Interview With Dr. Jim Cipielewski, Kathleen F. Clark

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


As We See It: Prospective Content Area Teachers Address The Question: 'Why Me?', Nicola Findley Feb 2021

As We See It: Prospective Content Area Teachers Address The Question: 'Why Me?', Nicola Findley

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Forty Years Of Literacy Instruction - Progress, Politics, And Pedagogy, W. Dorsey Hammond Feb 2021

Forty Years Of Literacy Instruction - Progress, Politics, And Pedagogy, W. Dorsey Hammond

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Providing Effective Instruction To Esl Students In The Classroom, Andrew Domzalski, Laurie R. Kaufman Feb 2021

Providing Effective Instruction To Esl Students In The Classroom, Andrew Domzalski, Laurie R. Kaufman

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Writers Telling Their Stories: Help For Finding Our Own Literary Voices, Karen I. Adams, Pamela W. Petty Feb 2021

Writers Telling Their Stories: Help For Finding Our Own Literary Voices, Karen I. Adams, Pamela W. Petty

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


The China-Michigan Connection: Sharing Pedagogy With Visiting Scholars, Linda M. Pavonetti Feb 2021

The China-Michigan Connection: Sharing Pedagogy With Visiting Scholars, Linda M. Pavonetti

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Oral Language Activities In The Early Childhood Classroom, Kathleen Bokie-Foster Feb 2021

Oral Language Activities In The Early Childhood Classroom, Kathleen Bokie-Foster

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Reading Redefined: A Michigan Reading Association Position Paper, Michigan Reading Journal Feb 2021

Reading Redefined: A Michigan Reading Association Position Paper, Michigan Reading Journal

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Vintage Visions, Michigan Reading Journal Feb 2021

Vintage Visions, Michigan Reading Journal

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Dangerous Grammar, Jason Frieling Feb 2021

Dangerous Grammar, Jason Frieling

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


"Students Can Take Risks Here": A First-Grade Teacher Learns To Teach Writing, Laura S. Pardo Feb 2021

"Students Can Take Risks Here": A First-Grade Teacher Learns To Teach Writing, Laura S. Pardo

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Understanding And Managing Multicultural Instruction, Laurie Bero Feb 2021

Understanding And Managing Multicultural Instruction, Laurie Bero

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Bookends: Reviews Of Young Adult Literature, Jennifer Cramer Feb 2021

Bookends: Reviews Of Young Adult Literature, Jennifer Cramer

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.