Woodrow Trathen
Biographic Data
| ID | 2236868 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Woodrow Trathen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Woodrow |
| FAMILY NAME | Trathen |
| SIGNATURE | TRATHEN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Appalachian State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4280-8433 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Internet Workshop and Blog Publishing
Social studies educators are responsible for successfully teaching students the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to be effective citizens. The National Council for the Social Studies urges educators to design technology-enhanced experiences that address social studies content and prepare students for effective citizenship. In this paper, we give examples from a piratical unit designed for a fourth-grade social studies classroom to highligh…
The effects of strategy instruction on the comprehension performance of at‐risk students
S This instructional study examined group and individual differences arising from strategy instruction. In the first phase of the study, 67 fifth and sixth graders from a designated at‐risk school were randomly assigned to one of the three treatments—strategy instruction, story content instruction, and basal control instruction. For 5 weeks, all students received one of the three treatments embedded within a narrative selection they read each day…
Structuring Telecommunications to Create Instructional Conversations about Student Teaching
An Analysis of Spontaneous Study Strategies
Metaphor, Idiom, and Figuration
Metaphor, specifically, and figurative language, generally, have been of interest to philosophers and literary theorists since Aristotle's Poetics. Yet we still lack clear criteria for what it means for an expression to be figurative, and how this is to be distinguished from literal usage. We argue here that this question has remained unanswered, in part, because it has been misconceived. One important source of misunderstanding has been the almo…
Preferences for idioms
The effects of strategy instruction on the comprehension performance of at‐risk students
S This instructional study examined group and individual differences arising from strategy instruction. In the first phase of the study, 67 fifth and sixth graders from a designated at‐risk school were randomly assigned to one of the three treatments—strategy instruction, story content instruction, and basal control instruction. For 5 weeks, all students received one of the three treatments embedded within a narrative selection they read each day…
Structuring Telecommunications to Create Instructional Conversations about Student Teaching
Preferences for idioms
An Analysis of Spontaneous Study Strategies
Preferences for idioms
Metaphor, Idiom, and Figuration
Metaphor, specifically, and figurative language, generally, have been of interest to philosophers and literary theorists since Aristotle's Poetics. Yet we still lack clear criteria for what it means for an expression to be figurative, and how this is to be distinguished from literal usage. We argue here that this question has remained unanswered, in part, because it has been misconceived. One important source of misunderstanding has been the almo…
An Analysis of Spontaneous Study Strategies
The effects of strategy instruction on the comprehension performance of at‐risk students
S This instructional study examined group and individual differences arising from strategy instruction. In the first phase of the study, 67 fifth and sixth graders from a designated at‐risk school were randomly assigned to one of the three treatments—strategy instruction, story content instruction, and basal control instruction. For 5 weeks, all students received one of the three treatments embedded within a narrative selection they read each day…
Structuring Telecommunications to Create Instructional Conversations about Student Teaching
Internet Workshop and Blog Publishing
Social studies educators are responsible for successfully teaching students the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to be effective citizens. The National Council for the Social Studies urges educators to design technology-enhanced experiences that address social studies content and prepare students for effective citizenship. In this paper, we give examples from a piratical unit designed for a fourth-grade social studies classroom to highligh…
Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Comprehension (2 works) · Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Literal and figurative language (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)