Pump It Up : Literacy Activities for the Classroom /

Pump It Up : Literacy Activities for the Classroom / / edited by Kilgour Dowdy Joanne, gao yang.

The book contributes to improving teaching and learning in a few ways: first, it provides in-service teachers with step-by-step, ready-to-use strategies that facilitate their students’ comprehension and use of content area reading material; second, it aims to help pre-service teachers learn to imple...

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HerausgeberIn:
Joanne, Kilgour Dowdy.
yang, gao.
Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 164 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Section I: Exploring the Scientific World (Science).-Promoting Creativity through Writing in Science
  • Creating Characters through the Use of Vocabulary Words
  • Key Steps to a Scientific Method: An Exploration through Drama
  • Section II: Becoming an Artist (Arts)
  • Analyze This!
  • We Wear the Mask
  • Finding Your Poem: Found Poetry as a Way of Engaging Literature
  • Media Activism in Secondary Classrooms through Art and Drama
  • Section III: Appreciating the Beauty of Languages (Literacy/Language Arts)
  • Using Word Association to Uncover Hidden Beliefs
  • Using Photographs to Inspire Voice
  • Poetry in the Art Room: Creating Blackout Poems Using Preexisting Text
  • Speech Video Lesson
  • Maga(Zine) Moguls: Students as Engaged, Motivated Readers and Writers
  • Section IV: Embodying Social Justice (Social Studies/Politics/History)
  • Drawing in a Community College Classroom? Using Picture Books and Sketch-to-Stretch with Adult Learners
  • What Does It Feel Like to Be Excluded?
  • “Were You Afraid of the Bomb?” Constructing Family Narratives of Lived Cold War Experiences
  • “I” Witness News: Using the Intergroup Contact Theory to Create Counter-Stereotypes
  • Section V: Developing a Healthy Mind and Body (Health/Physical Education)
  • Including Language Awareness Activities in Physical Education
  • Exploring Social Identities and Social Inequalities in Physical Education
  • Section VI: Playing with Numbers (Mathematics)
  • Writing to Learn Mathematics through Formulating Problems
  • Going beyond Numbers to Complicate the Given Information: Elementary Children’s Mathematical Writing
  • How Will Electronic Journaling Influence Children’s Mathematical Reasoning and Communication?
  • Section VII: Teaching in a Multicultural World (ESL/EFL/ELL)
  • A Game of Copy Change: Using Reading Logs to Develop Students’ Reading and Writing Skills
  • Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Cultural Scaffolding in Literacy Education: The Ethnobiography.-This Is Me: Using “I” Statements and Narrative Writing to Introduce Students to Each Other; A Picture Is Worth a Million Words: A 21st Century Learning Experience
  • Using ESL Fiction Texts to Increase Motivation and Comprehension
  • Children’s Books + Extensive Reading = Improved Reading Skills and Enjoyment for Reading and Writing
  • About the Contributors.

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