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Learning Through Modes of Signification at an Early Childhood Level in Kenya

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By: Jackton Otieno Midigo
6 March 2025 at 03:49

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This article explores learning through modes of signification in literacy activity books for early childhood learners in Kenya. These modes of signification are important for the cognitive and social development of children. Early childhood education in Kenya aims to prepare children for primary school by building foundational skills in a culturally responsive manner through a competency-based curriculum. In the Kenyan competency-based curriculum (CBC), various types of literacy books cater to different literacy development aspects. These literacy books include story books, phonemic awareness books, workbooks, vocabulary books, and writing practice books in English and Kiswahili. This article examines how child-centered teaching methods using modes of signification in the competency-based curriculum (CBC) can impact learning experiences and outcomes in literacy books. Dual-coding theory is used to analyze the relationship between the modes of signification used by learners and teachers in a CBC literacy lesson in Grade 3. The findings reveal that teachers do not focus much on modes of signification, while learners do. The study concludes that incorporating multiple modes of signification into the education system can enhance literacy skills acquisition. Therefore, educators should embrace modes of signification in literacy curricula to improve learners' literacy skills.

Synchronous Paired Oral Reading Techniques: Supporting Developing Readers in Connected Text

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By: Jake Downs， Kathleen Mohr
26 February 2025 at 10:41

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Students are regularly expected to engage with connected text during the school day. However, for some readers, these demands can be overwhelming, particularly when reading fluency is still developing. In this article, we highlight Synchronous Paired Oral Reading Techniques (SPORT) as one approach that teachers can use to help striving readers access connected text. Discussion includes who may benefit, how to select peer or adult tutors, and using SPORT to more productively consume existing classroom text or increase the amount of text students read.

From Dreaming of Freedom to Freedom Dreaming: Developing Students' Abolitionist Praxis Through Interdisciplinary Literacy Instruction

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By: Rubén A. GonzÑlez， Brittany L. Jones
25 February 2025 at 08:29

ABSTRACT

This qualitative study examines how elementary students of Color develop and enact an abolitionist praxis as part of a Freedom Dreaming literacy unit. The analysis of focus-group interviews elucidates how, after learning aboutΒ freedom dreaming and the abolition of prisons and police, students positioned historical anti-carceral activism as something occurring in the present and students leveraged their historical and contemporary understanding of anti-carceral activism to enact their own freedom dreaming toward abolishing carcerality within their school. Our findings reveal the transformative potential of centering freedom dreaming and the abolition of prisons and police in elementary literacy instruction.

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