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Promoting Global Awareness in Second Grade Students

WOW Stories, 2012
The Madeira Literacy Community developed plans and strategies to accomplish their goal for the school year: promote global awareness among the students. Critical steps to accomplishing this goal were selecting quality children's literature to read aloud,
Fran Wilson, Nicole Prater, Kristy Wanstrath, Tammy Saunders   +3 more
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Exploring Culture and Art with Young Children

WOW Stories, 2020
Introducing Volume VIII, Issue 1 of WOW Stories, guest editor Kathy G. Short explains the goals of global literacy communities who have received grants from Worlds of Words to support their work.
Kathy G. Short
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Building literacy skills and transforming lives [PDF]

Over 30 million adults in the U.S. can't read or write well enough to perform daily tasks.
Cathay Reta, Mari Riddle
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e-Government awareness among the techno-disadvantaged in the United States [PDF]

, 2011
This exploratory research focuses on awareness among techno-disadvantaged citizens in the United States. Specifically, we address whether awareness is associated with visitation and whether there are differences between those who are aware and those who ...
Connolly, R, Hackney, R, Ward, BT
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“I Have the Right”: Connecting the Human Body to Human Rights

WOW Stories
Holly Hardin centers human rights for her unit on the human body for her science class, using the text "I Have the Right: An Affirmation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child" as a cornerstone for the unit as well as a text set ...
Holly Hardin
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Exploring Cultures in Primary Classrooms

WOW Stories, 2012
The Spokane Literacy Community aim to find ways to explore global literature within an international curriculum through the use of Family Story Book bags to promote an exploration of students' personal cultural identities.
Marilyn Carpenter, Lacey Grummons, Janelle Stolp, Lindsay Abbey, Meg Baker, Charlotte Streit   +5 more
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Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them ...
Laura Lundy, Colette Murray, Kylie Smith, Carmel Ward   +3 more
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Integrating African American Stories into the Language Arts Curriculum

WOW Stories
In this article, Kari Matthies reflects on how she integrated African American stories into her curriculum through a carefully curated text set that allowed students to connect to stories and historical figures, engaging them with the texts on a deeper ...
Kari Matthies
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Recognizing the Familiar in the Faraway through Children’s Literature

WOW Stories, 2012
In this vignette, the Orono Literacy Community work to teach elementary school students about different cultures through global literature, using universals to help children forge a connection between their cultures and diverse cultures. The methods used
Jane Wellman-Little, Cynthia Crosser, Jessica Dunton, Barbara Keene   +3 more
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Reception Baseline Assessment and ‘small acts’ of micro‐resistance

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In September 2021, following the global COVID‐19 pandemic, the Department for Education introduced a national standardised digital Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) for all English 4‐year‐old children. We analyse RBA and its associated Quality Monitoring Visits, as a further intensification of the new public management of early years ...
Guy Roberts‐Holmes, Diana Sousa, Siew Fung Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source