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Understanding teachers’ experiences in transitioning from a reading test preparation approach to a whole novel approach : a narrative case study.
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Reading instruction in Texas has shifted due to pressure from high-stakes assessments that put a curricular focus on test preparation. Teachers create mini lessons in reading with passages and questions to prepare students to correctly answer The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) questions. Sacks (2013) shares, “…the mental frameworks of the testing culture become damaging when we build our practices on them” (p. 15). Test-centric literacy unintentionally teaches students the point of reading is to answer multiple-choice questions when the actual purpose of reading is “real comprehension…thinking, learning, and expanding a reader’s knowledge and horizons” (Hutchins & Zimmerman, 2003, p. 7). Test preparation focused instruction mistakenly shifts the focus to solely the best one of four answer choices. This narrative case study followed middle school reading teachers’ experiences moving from solely teaching test review passages that mimicked STAAR multiple-choice questions to implementing the Whole Novel Approach (WNA). This new instructional approach was student-centered and fostered an understanding of literature through novel studies that enhanced critical thinking (Sacks, 2013). Students engaged in literary discussions with their peers, and teachers facilitated learning instead of directing the learning. By studying this change to the WNA, I answered the primary and secondary research questions: How did reading teachers describe their experiences in a district-initiated transition from test-centric literacy instruction to the WNA? After three years of participating in the WNA, what were the most significant changes the reading teachers encountered throughout the process? The goal was to see this transition through the teachers’ eyes to understand how teachers moved through this change. I used the Emerging Change Model (ECM) as a lens to improve curricular reform. This study highlights several important considerations administrators can make to improve the process of curricular change for teachers that facilitates lasting improvements. Two key findings were to introduce the curricular change the previous year so teachers had time to practice the approach and to utilize the time for teachers to take part in reflective dialogue with administrators so the team could create solutions before the full implementation.
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Whole novel approach. Test centric literacy
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URL: https://hdl.handle.net/2104/11746
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ЛИНГВОСТИЛИСТИЧЕСКИЕ ОСОБЕННОСТИ ПЕРЕВОДА ЭМОЦИОНАЛЬНО-ОЦЕНОЧНОЙ ЛЕКСИКИ ... : LINGUISTIC AND STYLISTIC FEATURES OF TRANSLATION OF EMOTIONAL AND EVALUATIVE VOCABULARY ...
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Deep Sentiment Analysis Using CNN-LSTM Architecture of English and Roman Urdu Text Shared in Social Media
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In: Applied Sciences; Volume 12; Issue 5; Pages: 2694 (2022)
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Diversity Monitoring of Coexisting Birds in Urban Forests by Integrating Spectrograms and Object-Based Image Analysis
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In: Forests; Volume 13; Issue 2; Pages: 264 (2022)
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Mid-Pandemic Pedagogy: A Candid Dialogue between Student and Literature Professor
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In: Literature; Volume 2; Issue 2; Pages: 62-76 (2022)
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The Orientalist Semiotics of "Dune": Religious and Historical References within Frank Herbert's Universe
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Jacob, Frank. - : Büchner-Verlag, 2022. : DEU, 2022. : Marburg, 2022
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In: 117 (2022)
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Communication and Feminist New Materialism: Methodologies to understand the continuum between matter and discourse
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In: FZG - Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien ; 24 ; 1 ; 55-70 ; Der Ort des Politischen in den Critical Feminist Materialisms (2022)
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¿Hubo también una Críside novelesca? Algunas observaciones al P.Gen. inv. 65 (LDBA 5268)
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A fragment of a Greek novel? PMil I 2. 17 revisited
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In: Proceedings of the 29th International Congress of Papyrology; Proceedings of the 29th International Congress of Papyrology; 648-660 (2022)
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Sampling of the Spanish campus novel ; Muestreo de la novela de campus española
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In: Monteagudo. Revista de Literatura Española, Hispanoamericana y Teoría de la Literatura; No. 27 (2022): “El traje que vestí mañana”. One hundred years of Trilce (1922-2022); 179-200 ; Monteagudo. Revista de Literatura Española, Hispanoamericana y Teoría de la Literatura; Núm. 27 (2022): "El traje que vestí mañana". Cien años de Trilce (1922-2022).; 179-200 ; 1989-6166 ; 0580-6712 (2022)
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Abuse Practice of Power in Orwell’s Animal Farm
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In: Studies in Literature and Language; Vol 24, No 1 (2022): Studies in Literature and Language; 65-72 ; 1923-1563 ; 1923-1555 (2022)
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Français ; Retours sur le roman aquinien : défis de lecture et exégèse de Marilyn Randall
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In: Nouvelle Revue Synergies Canada; No. 16 (2022): Circonvolutions aquiniennes ; 2292-2261 (2022)
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Parallèle entre roman historique et roman jeunesse: enjeux narratifs et pragmatiques
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In: Nouvelle Revue Synergies Canada; No. 16 (2022): Circonvolutions aquiniennes ; 2292-2261 (2022)
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The Gororoba and the first scenes of proletarian life in Brazil ; O Gororoba e as primeiras cenas da vida proletária no Brasil
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In: Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture; Vol 44 No 1 (2022): Jan.-June; e59520 ; Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture; v. 44 n. 1 (2022): Jan.-June; e59520 ; 1983-4683 ; 1983-4675 (2022)
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Skandalisieren, stereotypisieren, normalisieren : Diskurspraktiken der Neuen Rechten aus sprach- und literaturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive
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UB Frankfurt Linguistik
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Honglou meng 紅樓夢 in France : studies, translation and positioning of researchers ; Le Honglou meng 紅樓夢 en France : études, traduction et positionnement des chercheurs
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In: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03654043 ; Littératures. Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III, 2021. Français. ⟨NNT : 2021MON30052⟩ (2021)
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Stimulus and response conflict from a second language: Stroop interference in weakly-bilingual and recently-trained languages
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In: ISSN: 0001-6918 ; EISSN: 1873-6297 ; Acta Psychologica ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03356475 ; Acta Psychologica, Elsevier, 2021, 218, pp.103360. ⟨10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103360⟩ (2021)
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Morphemes in Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut ; Les morphèmes dans Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut
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In: https://hal-inalco.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03464620 ; 2021 (2021)
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