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Highsmith, Joni Bitman – 1998
This software product teaches vocabulary development to 8- to 14-year-old students. The software may be used without the printed teaching guide, but educators will appreciate the added dimension and greater convenience that the lesson plans provide. Along with the 12 lesson plans are worksheets, templates, and other materials needed to complete…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools
Glazer, Susan Mandel – Teaching Pre K-8, 1996
Discusses effective use of teacher language in guiding children to interact verbally. Presents technique of repeating the last three words of a child utterance, followed by the word "and," which encourages children to continue talking. Suggests that coupled with positive body language and genuine interest, this technique supports verbal…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Discussion
Download full textBRITTON, JAMES – 1968
EVEN MORE THAN A RATIONAL ANIMAL, MAN IS A SYMBOLIZING ANIMAL, CREATING HIS OWN CHANGING REPRESENTATIONS OF REALITY. INSTRUMENTAL TO THIS PROCESS IS LANGUAGE, FOR IT PROVIDES THE BEST MEANS FOR STRUCTURING BOTH PAST AND FUTURE EXPERIENCE. THE VERBALIZATION OF BOTH PERSONAL AND VICARIOUS EXPERIENCE MAKES US REEVALUATE AND RESTRUCTURE OUR…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedEnright, D. Scott; McCloskey, Mary Lou – TESOL Quarterly, 1985
Summarizes the central assumptions of the communicative language teaching model and the potential difficulties that regular classroom teachers may face in implementing it. Seven criteria for use in organizing communicative classrooms are presented, and applications of these criteria to decisions about organizing classroom interaction and the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Class Organization, Classroom Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages)
