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Literacy Instruction in a Diverse Classroom

for learning gets drained off so they can defend themselves" (Willis). Trouble generally ensures in some form and the teachers exp...

Multicultural Education - An Overview

come from different disciplines (Gay, 1994). For instance, educators might look at multicultural education from the point of view ...

Overview of Metabolic Syndrome

shaped rather than a pear shaped body) has been associated with an increased risk for heart disease" (The metabolic syndrome.) An...

Metabolic Syndrome Explored

apple shaped rather than a pear shaped body) has been associated with an increased risk for heart disease" (The metabolic syndrome...

Multicultural Classroom and the Effects of Involvement by Parents on Literacy

Many of these students are described as limited-English proficient (LEP) students, and many teachers current lack the skills and l...

An Article on Literacy Reviewed

the entire article and the question is specifically: "What do teachers in our schools value in literacy?" (Dadds, 1999, p. 9). Thi...

Article Analysis/Evidence-Based Practice

study also examined the availability of information resources available to the RN respondents (both at work and at home). Their fi...

Information Literacy

have endeavored to discern, describe and catalogue the information and technology that inundates society, but they have also endea...

Approaches to Literacy

productive programs and pedagogies). Proponents of this thinking dont see literacy skills developing in a vacuum unconnected to ot...

Literacy Instruction: Short and Long-Term Goals and Programming Perspective

around reading and writing, allowing for authentic achievement of literacy. Reading research has made considerable advances durin...

Second Grade and a Literacy Program Based Upon Multicultural Literature

In nine pages in which an abstract is also provided this essay examines the development of grade two literacy in a consideration o...

Grades Seven through Twelve and Literacy That is Literature Based

materials are deemed important for student interest as well as student ability. The program includes teacher resources, such as s...

Assessing Adult Literacy

attend school, and how long to remain there. Many programs are "open-entry, open-exit" by design; retention of students is a major...

How a New Teacher Should Teach Reading

a time (Torgesen, 1998). Letter-sound knowledge can be measured by presenting one letter at a time and asking the child what sound...

Three Typical Social Problems

for black and Latino girls, however (Medical News Today, July, 2005). Black teens were more than twice as likely to become pregnan...

Instruction Design Document on U.S. Military and the Education of High School Students

class given for one quarter of the school year where students learn how to work the computer, surf the Internet and so forth. Fami...

Four Blocks Literacy Framework Adoption and Change Management

test is administered each May. Boiling Springs has always received a rating of excellent on the school report card. This ended i...

Intellectual Development and Don Quixote, The Mali Epic of Son Jara, and The Epic of Gilgamesh

regard to the acceptance of reality, issues of morality and, perhaps above all, the concept of divine judgment and human guilt. I...

Second Grade Literacy Teaching

In seven pages this paper discuses inner city schools and the various approaches for teaching literacy to second grade students. ...

Preschool's Impact Upon Child Recognition of Letters

the preschool curriculum and offered proof of the harm this could do to children (Nel, 2000). Elkinds studies showed that formaliz...

Adult Literacy Articles

reliability in terms of design, the researcher stated their process, intent and the direction of their questions in order to suppo...

Adult Education Programs

Testing Service for the National Center for Education Statistics, suggested that it may be impossible for the United States to ach...

Phonics That is Synthetic and Analytic

quotes a previous Director, John Stannard, as saying that the essential elements of teaching literacy involve the identification a...

Is New Software Negatively Impacting Students' Effectiveness as Readers and Writers?

Indeed, the world suffers from a monumental overpopulation problem that is at the root of many of todays educational problems. Th...

ICT Literacy and Programming Instruction

and communications technology, such as the World Wide Web, e-mail and video conferencing (Curtin University, 2003). The term can...

School Systems in Spain and the United States

Schools in Spain and those in the United States are arranged on a notably different structure. This paper compares and contrasts t...

Continuing Learning Plan and Nursing

In five pages this paper discusses the importance of continuing learning in the nursing profession in a consideration of the impor...

Technology Questions

In five pages a Q and A format is used to answer 2 questions posed by a student regarding health care professionals and the import...

Expression and the Value of Literacy

were filed. Now with computer-generated cameras that can transmit images immediately back to the studio, television is now at the...

Adult Literacy Since the 17th Century

copies so that reading materials could be distributed more widely. One aspect that affected the United States when printed materi...