Exploring elementary students’ perceptions of disabilities using children's literature

The portrayal of characters in children's literature can be a very powerful influence on young children. Teachers have a responsibility to expose children to characters of all types, including those with disabilities. The goal of this study was to explore how third and fourth grade students responded to characters with disabilities in children's books. We read a total of 12 books that included characters with disabilities to students in two third‐grade and one fourth‐grade class at three elementary schools. We video‐recorded discussions about the books and identified the following four themes, all of which related to influences on students’ responses to the character with a disability: (a) societal messages, (b) academic responses, (c) teacher influence and (d) portrayal of disability. We recommend that teachers carefully select books featuring characters with disabilities based on the way the disability is portrayed in the book, and, after the read‐aloud, use questioning strategies that encourage students to make thoughtful, deep comments rather than giving ‘expected’ responses.     

Children's responses to the interactivity of storybook apps in family shared reading events involving the iPad

This paper reports on some data on the effects of screen‐based interactivity on children's engagement with storybook apps during family shared book reading that were gathered in a 2‐year, small‐scale ethnographic case study in Spain. Data analysis focuses on the complex interplay between the storybook app's interactive features and the children's responses to them. Our findings show that interactive elements increase the child's autonomy, as they tend to promote the importance of the reader, positioning him or her as a collaborator, storyteller, an author or an internal character in the fiction; something that can materialise in exciting narrative strategies that can trigger powerful responses to digital literary texts in emergent readers, including playing, creating new fictions or engaging emotionally with the story. Finally, we argue that the Reader Response models that have been used over recent decades to understand children's reading experiences with storybooks need to be revised to better understand their current experiences with interactive texts.     

A Brief Investigation of Pre-reading Exercises in SEFC

As in reading teaching, schema theory has long been taking a dominant part. According to this theory, English teachers can help the students to call up their prior knowledge by placing an emphasis on a...     

创造良好育人环境,关注90后大学生心理健康

大学生心理健康是政府关心、学校担心、家长揪心的一个非常重要的问题。现在刚入学的大学生绝大部分是90后,由于他们生活、成长的家庭、社会、教育环境不同,与以往大学生存在一些差异,必须引起我们教育工作者的重视和思考。     

初中英语过程写作法教学模式探究

在单元教学中,指导学生围绕词块、句群以及篇章结构,运用所学知识,就同一主题不同角度进行写作练习,掌握写作策略和技能,充分发挥评价的激励作用,提高学生写作水平。     

论阅读教学中“教”“学”主体的转变

在应试教育的大背景下，阅读教学已经异化为应试教学，沦落为应试教育的手段。阅读教学要做到优质高效，并对整个小学语文教学起到重要的拉动作用，必须实现由“教”到“学”的主体转变，即课堂教学要由从以教师“教”为中心转变到以学生“学”为中心。只有经历这样的转变，阅读教学才能实现质的跨越。     

普通话教学中朗读环节易见的口语语感问题及解决方法

在普通话教学中,朗读是学生最容易出现口语语感问题的环节,最常见的口语语感问题是停连不当、重音不准确、节奏把握不当。学生无法做到完全的情景再现,对内在语把握不准,情感运动不到位和过于关注细节是造成上述问题的主要原因。可以通过体验式感受、情景式教学、表演式表达以及暗示教学法帮助学生解决朗读中的口语语感问题。     

海城尚氏宗谱文化探析

海城尚氏祭祖自清初至今已有三百余年。平南王尚可喜于晚年开始着手编著尚氏宗谱,定祖训,及至尚王逝世,宗祠、陵园逐渐修建,尚氏家族的祭祖仪式逐日发展完善。随着时代的发展,尚氏家祭仪式也有所损益,宗谱文化与社会更加契合融汇,具有了更为广泛的文化内涵。     

新时期大学生思想政治教育工作方法研究

针对当前由＂90后＂构成的大学生主体,总结了其相对于＂80后＂所呈现出的新特点,提出了新时期大学生思想政治教育工作,应从完善与学生的沟通途径、构建与家长的全方位沟通机制、营造和谐的集体氛围、打造良好的社会环境四方面进行。     

Adult EFL Learners’Motivation in Reading

In the enthusiastic trend of English learning, an abundance of work is contributing to practical assistance to adult learn-ers in contrast with the paucity of attention on the learners’psychological ba...