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This article considers the different kinds of learning that are appropriate for the rapidly expanding range of writing that constitutes an everyday part of most people's working lives. It discusses the importance and demands of everyday writing in work, and the role of formal education in preparing people for the localised learning about writing that is necessary upon entering work. It considers the issue of the transfer of knowledge, and argues that both metacognitive and conceptual understandings about writing are crucial elements in enabling people to transfer and adapt foundation literacy skills to the workplace.

In this article Flower discusses the different processes that go into thinking and into writing. Also, she goes over the writing processes and the difference between writing to oneself or for different readers. There is also a case study that talks about a transformation. Flower makes several interesting points within the article that would be helpful in the comparison of mathematical and English thinking

Children's drawings about reading and writing have unrealized potential for helping uncover the literacy narratives students bring to school and use to make sense of reading and writing. In this article, we highlight how one boy's drawing about literacy revealed his interpretation of his school's policy on violence as a topic of writing, which tended to constrain his interest in writing. His drawing reinforced the importance of adopting multiple perspectives to interpret the various texts that students produce. (Abstract taken from JSTOR.)

This article is about two teachers who used the literary devices associated with poetry to teach scientific writing to their students. The result was that students learned more about writing poetry and writing scientific reports. This article would be helpful for students researching the teaching of literacy using uncommon methods.

This article is about how parents influence thier childrens learning habits. Helping your children learn to read and write must start in the early years. Parents are a support team when thier child is learning to read. The way the parents read and write at home effects how the students read and write. Oral language is a foundation for literacy development.

This involves a program called PictoPal that helps children read. It will help them read and writed. It tells how this program helped the children with their literacy and what this program does.

This article is about a digital learning program called pictopal that was created to help children learn how to read and write. This article talks about the effects of this experiment and whether or not it was successful. It also gives an overview of how the program was initiated to the studetns. This would be a helpful article if you are looking for information on how digital program effects learning.

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)

This article focuses on the use of drugs, particularly cocaine, in the rap and hip hop industry. It speaks about the slang used and different artist's use of the drug game in writing their rhymes.

Financially literate people are imperative to an economy because they make good financial decisions that help stimulate the economy. The author emphasizes the need for individuals (especially low income families to write out a written budget monthly. Consumers should establish emergency funds, practice good saving habits and have knowledge of investment funds. Through the surveys conducted in the article there is a correlation between knowledge of financial practices with and financial achievement. The author emphasizes the need to expand on ones' personal financial knowledge in a way befitting to the individual.

This article is about how to develp fluent readers. You need to teach how to read and write very early on. In order to do this the right way, a teacher should use Eli. Eli stands for Early Literacy Initiative. In the program you teach the early childhood level skills to preschoolers. You teach them early on because they can improve thier skills are they grow older.

This article is about a study done on the effects of HeadsUp! Reading. It is a professional development literacy work shop series with and with out supplementary mentoring on early childhood educators. Children who live in poverty communites did this workshop for 15 weeks. There were pre- and post- assesments completed by the students. They were trying to measure if a student had a mentor, if they did better learning to read and write. Mentoring and HeadsUp are different.

This article talks about who influences and who teaches children how to read.Teaching kids to read is not a job for just one person. It takes a whole team of people to teach children how to read. The teams are made up of literacy coaches and classroom teachers. The classroom teachers tell the literacy coach what the student needs help with. The two work on a team together to teach children how to read and write.

Using an ethnography of discourse approach, this article argues that literate interactions in a rural eastern Kentucky community are strongly linked to symbolic values assigned to self through the gender-based division of reading and writing labor. Noting that literate practices are God-given attributes of women's "nature," it describes how literate interactions provide contexts in which a woman can negotiate her social, religious, and cultural identity. What constitutes acceptable literate forms is culturally constrained by a tension between maintaining "country" values while assimilating those "proper" women's literate forms which augment, rather than replace, oral forms. Men's identities are not linked to these literate practices, creating minimal or non-literate behavior. These cultural constructs of literacy affect both men's and women's behavior in classroom, workplace, or urban interfacing situations, affecting mobility problems. (Abstract taken from JSTOR.)

This article talks about how researchers are say that now more than ever it is more important to help with your child's literacy development. It is never to early to begin the process of teaching you toddler to read and write. The article give some easy inexpensive ways to help you child learn this.

Despite the refutation of intelligent design as legitimate science by the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, eighteen states have suggested the introduction of antievolution legislation (as of 2005). In the wake of this movement, librarians, the ultimate guardians of knowledge, may face challenges of censorship by religious conservatives. Suppressing access to information is in direct conflict with democratic ideals. This article contains specific advice for librarians regarding the protection of diverse resources. Although the O'Sullivans write to a specific audience, their message is indicative of the relationship between censorship and literacy.

Children's literacy is very important and can even predict a child's academic success at a young age. There are educational programs, like Head Start, to help children learn literacy skills before they go to kintergarten. Kids that have a knowledge of the letters and how they sound are able to be much better writers.

"This article gives a lot of background information on Oprah Winfrey and why she does the book club. It goes into detail about her past and the struggles she has overcome. Books were always her friends through the troubles and they mean so much to her. Because reading is a big part of Oprah's life she wanted to take her passion and share it with others and help other people by using books. There are many quotes from Oprah and useful background information that will be helpful when writing the paper.

Financially literate people are imperative to an economy because they make good financial decisions that help stimulate the economy. The author emphasizes the need for individuals (especially low income families to write out a written budget monthly. Consumers should establish emergency funds, practice good saving habits and have knowledge of investment funds. Through the surveys conducted in the article there is a correlation between knowledge of financial practices with and financial achievement. The author emphasizes the need to expand on ones' personal financial knowledge in a way befitting to the individual.

This article is based on a study released by the United States about the No child left behind act. The study is about how the act leaves out social studies, languages and the arts from schools. The only good that came from cutting out these subjects of study from school is that the rates of increase in learning for math sciense and reading/writing have gone up drammatically. This article is good if you are looking at the no child left behind act.

Whether it be leaping, resisting, or being gently shoved, the field of early childhood education continues moving into the age of accountability. Young children are expected to exhibit many requisite skills prior to kindergarten. Thus, the advancement of pre-reading and writing skills development become one of the many areas of focus for early childhood teachers. This study focused on the advancement of young children's emergent literacy and letter recognition skills through developmentally appropriate instruction and need based adapted activities using the Early Literacy and Learning Model (ELLM) curriculum. The results suggest that mindfully adapting activities to children's needs advances children's emergent literacy development.