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Download full textAsaro-Saddler, Kristie; Knox, Haley Muir; Meredith, Holly; Akhmedjanova, Diana – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2015
Writing is an important content area that pervades all subject areas and is required for post-school success, yet many students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often struggle in written expression. In this article we discuss the characteristics of students with ASD that make writing difficult, and the strengths, such as the use of technology,…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Writing Difficulties, Assistive Technology
Direct linkMcCombs, Jennifer Sloan; Augustine, Catherine H.; Unlu, Fatih; Ziol-Guest, Kathleen M.; Naftel, Scott; Gomez, Celia J.; Marsh, Terry; Akinniranye, Goke; Todd, Ivy – RAND Corporation, 2019
Research evidence suggests that summer breaks contribute to income-based achievement and opportunity gaps for children and youth. However, summertime can also be used to provide programs that support an array of goals for children and youth, including improved academic achievement, physical health, mental health, social and emotional well-being,…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Access to Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Hermsen, Terry, Ed.; Fox, Robert, Ed. – 1998
Based on a series of successful summer writing institutes, this book presents practical ways for teachers to reinvigorate their classrooms and their own attitudes toward creative writing. In four complementary sections focusing on four groups of writers--creative writers in residence, K-12 students and teachers who participated in the summer…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Summer Programs
Cohen, Robin; Kleiner, Gail – 1989
Intended for adaptation by teachers to suit their students' and their own strengths, this guide is a series of thematic units intended to encourage meaningful language use in an enjoyable and serious atmosphere in the ninth grade classroom. The guide includes many reading and writing activities that can be used in both the specific contexts in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grade 9, Junior High Schools, Summer Programs
Roberts, David H., Ed.; Swoger, Peggy A., Ed. – 1991
This compilation presents materials associated with the 5-week summer session of the Samford University Writing Project, 1991. The compilation begins with curriculum vitae of staff, teacher consultants, and guest speakers. The compilation also presents lists of group and committee members and daily logs written in by participants in a wide variety…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Integrated Activities, Poetry
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1983
Developed to assist teachers of communication arts in the high school PREP (Preparation for Raising Educational Performance) summer classes, the 30 75-minute lessons in this first of two handbooks are designed to help ninth graders operating with below grade level reading skills (around the 5th-7th grade level) improve their reading comprehension.…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, English Instruction, Grade 9, Language Skills
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1983
Developed to assist teachers of communication arts in the high school PREP (Preparation for Raising Education Performance) summer classes, the 30 75-minute lessons in this second of two handbooks are designed to help ninth graders operating with below grade level reading skills (around the 3rd-5th grade level) improve their reading comprehension.…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, English Instruction, Grade 9, Language Skills
Roberts, David H., Ed.; And Others – 1992
This compilation presents materials associated with the 5-week summer session of the Samford University Writing Project, 1992. The compilation begins with curriculum vitae of staff, teacher consultants, and guest speakers. The compilation also presents lists of group and committee members and daily logs written in by participants in a wide variety…
Descriptors: American Indian Literature, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Friendship
Roberts, David H., Ed.; And Others – 1994
This compilation presents materials associated with the 5-week summer session of the Samford University Writing Project, 1994. The compilation begins with curriculum vitae of staff, teacher consultants, and guest speakers. The compilation also presents lists of group and committee members. Summaries of 14 presentations (on such topics as…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Bias, Civil War (United States), Elementary Secondary Education
Root, Robert L., Jr.; Steinberg, Michael – 1996
Based on a series of seven summer workshops on creative writing and pedagogy, this book offers an "inside-out" approach to teaching and writing, an approach that teachers can use for personal growth and self-enrichment as well as for application and inspiration in their public school classrooms. Essays in the book are: (1) "'The Writing's for Us':…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, English Teachers
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. – 1987
Designed for use by basic education teachers, this teaching guide outlines a summer school communication skills program for at-risk students which seeks to build self-esteem through high-interest, success-oriented experiences and to enhance language development by providing opportunities to use language in meaningful situations. The guide…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Compensatory Education, Grade 3, High Risk Students
Elksnin, Nick, Ed.; Elksnin, Linda, Ed. – OPEC Review, 1996
These four newsletters from the South Carolina Department of Education focus on teaching and serving students with disabilities. The first newsletter includes articles addressing ways that special education professionals can be good to themselves so they can meet the needs of exceptional children; strategies for instructing children with attention…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Classroom Communication, Coping, Deaf Blind
Lipton, Gladys C., Ed. – 1998
A collection of essays on FLES (foreign languages in the elementary school) includes: "Public Education in America and the Implications of Foreign Language and Second Language Acquisition" (Peter Negroni); "The People Factor in the Glastonbury Public Schools" (Christine Brown); "Public Relations: Inside and Outside"…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, FLES
