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Using Padlet and S.M.A.R.T. Goals to Enhance Reciprocal Teaching Strategy: Success for English Learners
Full text linkA teacher-researcher spent the year in Slovakia teaching English to high school students. Reciprocal Teaching Strategy (RTS) was implemented to engage the students in discussing their reading. RTS is a research-based, highly effective strategy encouraging students to participate at a higher level of thinking. It is aimed at increasing students\u27 overall comprehension of the text being read but also challenging the reader to construct deeper inferences, arguments and ideas. When the students used the strategy while reading a text, they also had the luxury of working independently to become more metacognitively aware while also leaning on peers to challenge thinking and clarify any confusing parts. To increase engagement for RTS, Padlet, a web-based tool, was used for the students to write about their RTS roles, goals, and quality of responses to peers. Because Padlet lends itself well to shorter responses, the ELL students viewed the writing as less threatening while we, as facilitators and researchers, could respond to their writing with probing questions, praise points and teach points. Students set S.M.A.R.T. goals to improve the quality of work in the RTS groups
A Road Trip of Acceptance and Love: A Review of Amber McBride\u27s Me (Moth)
Full text linkThe author reviews Amber McBride’s 2021 young adult novel Me (Moth), providing a brief summary, potential classroom audiences and instructional strategies, and similarly-themed texts
A Glimpse of McCurdy: Her Rise & Fall from Fame in I\u27m Glad My Mom Died
Full text linkThe author reviews Jennette McCurdy’s 2022 memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died, providing a brief summary, personal connections, and potential classroom audiences and applications
Directed Reading Thinking Activity: A Gradual Release Method to Demystify Reading
Full text linkThe author describes an instructional strategy that deepens students’ understanding of and engagement with texts
Draft Dodging: Learning the Art of Revision
Full text linkWhile working towards a teaching degree in English language arts, I found myself reflecting on my own education in search of inspiration for how I will teach writing in my future classroom. Through a meta-dialogue, I engage with the idea(s) of being a writer who is also a lifelong learner and a newly converted defendant for the process of revision and how to share that with my students
He Made a Federal Case Out of It: Steven Frank\u27s Class Action and the Salvation of Childhood
Full text linkIn Steven Frank\u27s 2018 novel Class Action, middle-schooler Sam realizes something needs to change. When his teacher sends home a practice test to take over the weekend, Sam snaps. He stands on his desk holding up a hand-drawn NO HW sign and encourages others to do the same. When Sam is suspended his journey begins
Supporting New Teachers with Literacy Instruction: Small Changes to Graduate Literacy Programs That Can Have a Big Impact
Full text linkSince 2018, there has been an increase in the use of the term Science of Reading (SoR), which is a method of teaching reading that is connected to an understanding of reading and reading development that aligns with scientific research (Shanahan, 2020). Teachers who are new to the classroom may be unfamiliar with SoR and teaching practices that align with this pedagogy. Institutions of higher education, specifically graduate literacy programs, are in a position to support and mentor new teachers with the current shift in literacy instruction. This article addresses changes that can be made to graduate course content in order to support new teachers, particularly during this shift to a new method of literacy instruction. This article offers ideas for how higher education can play a role in better preparing new teachers for SoR instruction
Editor\u27s Note
Full text linkBack in our Fiske Hall home, this issue of "The Folio" showcases a variety of scholarship. Each volumeof the journal often reflects the seminar and course classes offered in the previous year. The articles in volume19 are uniquely limited to American history topics. While the location of the topics is focused on one country,they range widely chronologically. From colonial America to the 1920s, these papers reflect on serious issuesfacing daily life. Both Amanda Underwood and Rhenee Clark Swink showcase the lives of women in eighteenthcentury America. Logan Dougherty addresses the connection between politics and men\u27s facial hair at the turnof the twentieth century. The personal relationships of Cherokee political families, and the issues which drovethem to disagreement are analyzed and reflected upon in Erik Ferguson\u27s article. We end the issue with JoshuaMackey\u27s recreation of the decades long effort to tell the tale of the Tulsa race riots. Taken together thesearticles tell us much about the lives and issues facing Americans.Thanks are due to the faculty of the Department of History who give of their time, expertise, andguidance throughout the process. Faculty provide invaluable support from the development of paper topicsand sources of information in preparation of class papers, to guidance through the final revisions prior topublication. A board consisting of faculty chooses the papers to publish.On behalf of the students and faculty who made this edition possible, we hope that you will enjoy theirwork.
Dr. Helen HundleyFaculty Edito
Ross and Watie: The Relationship and Influence of Cherokee Chiefs, from Removal to the Civil War
Full text linkJohn Ross and Stand Watie were chiefs and leaders of the Cherokee people through a large part of the nineteenth century. Politically they differed in thought and action. Even though they maintained different political understanding, they both believed in the unity of the Cherokee Nation. Through their lives, their differences shaped each other and their nation. Their actions had major influences on one another. What started as a political divide became a personal grudge over decades. The decisions they made for themselves and the Cherokee people had great effect on each other. Their political movements were not only based on the Cherokee people, but on how the other would react. This relationship began in the early 19th century and went through the Civil War. They were a part of treaties, assassinations, peace, and war. They influenced and changed their nation, and influenced and changed each other
"The Crusade Against the Whisker" and the Birth of the Modern Radical Beard
Full text linkThis paper seeks to investigate the shift in style in the last decade of the nineteenth century, when it again became customary for men to shave their beards. In order to address this topic, the historiographies of facial hair, masculinity, and radical politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States demand attention. The convergence of these three areas of study will provide the basis for this examination into this shift in style, and the social meanings that may have been placed on beards and beardlessness during this period in American history