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An Article focusing on a summer institute that integrated arts into language arts. The institute taught teachers to use music, movement, visual art, drama, and film to enhance the classroom experience and help student's literacy. The authors then surveyed the participants one year later. Results showed that those who responded to the survey were still using art to help teach.

Teachers combine visual literacy with drama in order for students to make personal connections and to easier comprehend literature; this ultimately proved to provide children with a better understanding.

A resource for teachers, literacy organizations and anyone interested in reading and education, created in collaboration with LitCam, Google, and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning.

this program is one of the top educational programs for kids. This page is a summary of the program and explains to parents and teacher why it is helpful

Jefferson Community College teacher Ken Hardy wanted to teach a class on taboo words. He said one and lost his job. Most of the piece is a story about what happened to Hardy, but the third page of the article contains some thoughtful commentary on the power of the word.

In this study, parents from the Texas Parent teacher association are surveyed on how much they would support an increase in their property taxes to pay for financial literacy classes in their children's schools. It is a very interesting way to look at people's view of financial literacy, and looking ar parent's view on the topic is very important because often the same values are enstilled in their children.

A film on OhioLINK. Eager for knowledge, a child is by nature curious about everything. Why, then, is school such an unpleasant place for some children? In this program, teachers, researchers, a psychoanalyst, a neurologist, a neurobiologist, a psychomotor specialist, and others examine the process of learning and the classroom as a learning center. Mastery of reading and writing, the key to unlocking all forms of communication and the entry point to many other exciting domains, is emphasized. In addition, the concept of multiple intelligences is explored. (52 minutes, color)

The piece by Bronwyn Williams talks about how teachers do not look at the ways reading and writing are presented in culture, but if they do, it is uncommon. He takes into account how popular movies and television programs have people reading in writing. In addition, Williams explains that these popular cultures will influence today's adolescents.

In this article, the relationship between literacy practices and spatiality is explored in the context of family literacy. The article draws on fieldwork in family literacy classrooms as part of two evaluations in Croydon and Derbyshire of family learning provision. Methods of evaluation included classroom observations in rural and suburban locations. In addition, teachers and parents were interviewed. In this instance, family learning included literacy and language activities with parents and children in school and nursery settings. These were learning spaces where parents and children collaborated on joint projects including book making, storytelling, the making of visual artefacts and reading and writing activities. The research revealed how family literacy classrooms could be understood as 'third spaces', between home and school, offering parents and children discursive opportunities drawing on both domains.

This article explores the differences in literacy experiences between males and females. Students in particular. It is relatively easy to read, and is about 10 pages long. It seems to be geared towards teachers, but we as students, researching literacy, can gain a lot as well.

An article about the lengths some teachers will go to to get the technology they need in the classroom.

During the 2008 Election, presidential candidates are using social networking sites to reach out to the youth. Demographers are saying this is the year that the "millennials" could determine the election with their huge numbers of registered voters. The candidates are listening and are doing whatever it takes to get the youth vote. The presidential nominees are using the new technology such as Facebook, Myspace, and YouTube to reach out to young adults. This article tells how the candidates are using different forms of technology to reach out to youth voters.

This article by Joanne Jacobs speaks about how students that speak English as a second language are their best students, and their worst students. Some of these work very hard to learn language proficiently and go on to test very highly and be very bright, others are very average and do not pass as proficient in the English language. Jacobs speaks of teachers being horrified by the numbers of students that are not proficient that have been in English speaking school systems since kindergarten. Jacobs has an interesting article and someone looking for a few good statistics would be smart by looking into this article.

The Virginia Department of Education has unveiled a tool that teachers and parents can use to select books that interest young readers and help them improve their skills.

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Article about teaching literacy in specific educational area. (music)

Stereotyping, low pay, lack of role models. Why the number of men teaching in schools is at a 40-year low.