Rural Elementary Teachers and Place-Based Connections to Text During Reading Instruction
Summary. Rural elementary teachers rarely help students connect reading materials to their local communities and places. Commercial textbooks provide minimal support for place-based learning, and standardized curricula often ignore students' rural contexts. The study found that teachers themselves must actively guide students to make meaningful connections between texts and their rural surroundings, as curriculum materials alone fail to bridge school learning with community realities.
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Waller, R., & Barrentine, S. J.. (2015). Rural Elementary Teachers and Place-Based Connections to Text During Reading Instruction. Journal of Research in Rural Education. https://doi.org/10.18113/p8jrre3007
Waller, Rachael, and Shelby J. Barrentine. “Rural Elementary Teachers and Place-Based Connections to Text During Reading Instruction.” Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2015. https://doi.org/10.18113/p8jrre3007.
Waller, Rachael, and Shelby J. Barrentine. 2015. “Rural Elementary Teachers and Place-Based Connections to Text During Reading Instruction.” Journal of Research in Rural Education. https://doi.org/10.18113/p8jrre3007.
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author = {Rachael Waller and Shelby J. Barrentine},
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year = {2015},
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- 10.18113/p8jrre3007
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- United States
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- North America
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- education
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- 2026-04-28