scholarly journals A Gender Gap in Literacy? Exploring the Affective Im/materiality and “Magic” of Allure with/in a First Grade Classroom

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 330-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bessie P. Dernikos
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Grade Classroom

Within this article, I think with (Jackson & Mazzei, 2012) posthumanist theories of affect and assemblage (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987) to argue that literacy learning within a first grade classroom (NYC) involved allure (Thrift, 2008), or more-than-human technologies of public intimacy that were affectively contagious and seemed to take on a life of their own. By doing so, I contribute a new dimension to literacy-gender debates by exploring how the im/material practices of allure emerge to produce entanglement, bliss, and even violence. While male students’ entangled reading practices disrupted popular assumptions of “failing boys,” thereby making new gendered and literate subjectivities possible, these practices, at times, further reinforced rigid heteronormativities. Ultimately, attending to literacy learning as alluring invites more ethically response-able (Barad, 2007) considerations that take seriously how the forces of gender, sexuality, and race work to animate/contain bodies, spaces, and things, as well as shape the un/making of students as “successfully literate.”

Responsive play: Creating transformative classroom spaces through play as a reader response

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 385-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tori K Flint
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Funds Of Knowledge ◽  
Research Question ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
Academic Learning ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Sociocultural Resources ◽  
Grade Classroom

This eight-month study, conducted in a first-grade classroom in the southwestern United States, analyzed young children's playful responses to literature. It focuses on framing a theory that underpins play as a form of reader response, which I term ‘responsive play’. It further aims to answer the overarching research question and the sub-question: What are the affordances of play for responding to text in a first-grade classroom? What are the sociocultural resources that children use to respond to and make meaning with text? Findings suggest that the children in this study created a space for learning and understanding, through their responsive play, that allowed them to think through, demonstrate, and share their experiential knowledge, their funds of knowledge, and their intertextual knowledge – as sociocultural resources – and to connect these to their literacy learning as they cooperatively transacted with and responded to various books. These findings suggest that children's play, language, and literacy are complementary, that children's responsive play should be encouraged in the classroom setting, and that children's experiences and funds of knowledge should be valued as additive to the academic learning context. Implications of this study include that responsive play can be viewed as a generative source of academic learning and that the notion of reader response, in research and practice, can be reconceived to include responsive play.

UPAYA MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MEMBACA MELALUI METODE SCRAMBLE PADA PESERTA DIDIK KELAS I SD NEGERI 002 BENTENG KECAMATAN SUNGAI BATANG

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 409
Author(s):  
Reni Marlina
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Initial Data ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Average Analysis ◽  
Before And After

This study aims to improve students' reading ability through the first grade scramble students of SD Negeri 002 Benteng, Kecamatan Sungai Batang, which are 28 students with 11 male students and 17 female students with heterogeneous ability. This study is based on the low ability of students' learning outcomes and lack of awareness of teachers to implement an effective, innovative, and cooperative learning. The study was conducted from September 3, 2016 to October 8, 2016. This study is a classroom action research (PTK) consisting of two cycles. Minimum completeness criteria (KKM) and average analysis are used to determine whether or not improvement of student learning outcomes before and after using the scramble learning model. The results of this study indicate that the number of students who reach KKM in the initial data is only 10 people (36%), cycle I is 16 people (57%), and the second cycle is 25 people (89%). The average student score at baseline was 68.4; cycle I increased to 75,9; in the second cycle increased again to 83,6. Based on the results of this study it can be concluded that the model of learning scramble can improve reading ability in Indonesian language students class I of SD Negeri 002 Benteng, Kecamatan Sungai Batang.

Visual Literacy and Young Learners

2020 ◽  
pp. 190-208
Author(s):  
Hilde Tørnby
Keyword(s):  
Visual Literacy ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Visual Texts ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Distinct Sense ◽  
Visual Text ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Grade Classroom

This chapter explores visual literacy from theoretical and practical perspectives. Ideas of what is meant by visual literacy and why this is important are presented through a selection of studies. The impact that visual literacy may have on students' learning and development is further elaborated. A case study from a Norwegian first-grade classroom is included to shed light on the ways in which visual work in the classroom can be implemented. In addition, exemplars of students' written verbal and visual texts are thoroughly examined. A tendency in the material is that the illustrations are detailed and elaborate, and carry a distinct sense of the written text. Hence, the visual text may be understood as the more important text and may be vital in a child's literacy development.

scholarly journals Creative Endeavors: Inspiring Creativity in a First Grade Classroom

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan W. Cress ◽  
Daniel T. Holm
Keyword(s):  
First Grade ◽  
Grade Classroom

scholarly journals Assessment of Psychological Readiness Situation of Students Starting to Primary School

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Medera Halmatov
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Male Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
School Rules ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Provincial Center

There are important responsibilities expected from primary school students. The most important of these are the learning of reading, writing and arithmetic. There is a “psychological readiness” aspect besides reading, writing and arithmetic in order to be ready for the school. In this study, among the first-grade students, those who were academically ready were compared with those who were psychologically ready. In this research, screening model is used from quantitative research methods. Screening surveys allow the answers of questions such as “what, where, when, how often, at what level, how” (Wellington, 2006). The population of the research was composed of the children who started to the first class of primary schools in the provincial center of Ankara and the provincial center of Agri in the 2016-2017 academic year. The sample group of the study consisted of 327 students. 80 girls and 75 male students out of 322 students are chosen from the schools in the provincial center of Ankara, and 87 girls and 80 boys are chosen from the schools in provincial center of Agri. While the number of literate students at the basic level is 95 before the school starts, only 46 students are able to link shoe laces. While a total of 255 students knew all the main colors before the school started, only 31 students knew their home address. In addition, 90 students were found to have problems complied with the school rules. 39 students are shy in the classroom.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document