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Building Reading Vocabulary: A Treat, Not a Treatment
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Mattleman, Marciene S. – Reading Teacher, 1973
Presents examples of classroom activities designed to improve reading through improved vocabulary. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Verbal Development
Freeing Language in the Classroom
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Fox, Sharon E. – Language Arts, 1976
Teachers should enrich students' language environment, give children opportunities to practice their language, and allow feedback on language to occur. (DD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Language Arts
Modelle fur den kompensatorischen Sprachunterricht in der Orientierungsstufe (Models for Compensatory Language Instruction at the Orientation Stage)
Mommert, Michael – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1971
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Enrichment, Language Instruction, Language Learning Levels
The Effects of Direct Feedback and Practice on Metaphor Performance in Children with Learning Disabilities.
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Baechle, Cathy L.; Ming-Gon, John Lian – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1990
This study of 52 learning-disabled children, aged 8-13, found that direct feedback and practice improved metaphor interpretation. The approach was highly successful in teaching students to generalize concrete concepts to abstract ones. Further descriptive analyses indicated that grade and reading levels of subjects correlated with metaphor…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Drills (Practice), Elementary Education, Feedback
Rhyming with Reason.
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Wade, Barrie – Children's Literature in Education, 1982
Discusses the value of rhymes in developing children's concepts of story and pleasure in reading. (HOD)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Literature, Concept Formation, Elementary Education
Story Repetition as an Educational Technique for Young Mental Retardates
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Baron, Richard L.; Ackerman, Paul D. – Child Study Journal, 1976
Six mentally retarded children were read to individually by an adult reader over a period of six weeks. Verbal interaction between the adult and each child was examined under two story presentation procedures. (MS)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Handicapped Children, Interaction Process Analysis, Language Acquisition
The American Classroom Environments for Oral Language Acquisition.
Orozco, Cecilio – 1982
The results of a series of three studies of classroom factors influencing English oral language development in Spanish speaking bilingual elementary students are reported. Teacher control of oral language practice, extra practice in oral language encoding for bilingual students, and similarities between the English proficiency scores of children…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education
Practical Teaching Ideas (In the Classroom).
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Reading Teacher, 1988
Describes 13 practical ideas for classroom teaching at the elementary level, including writing classmates' biographies, keeping a class diary, and improving emergent readers' vocabulary with word cards. (MM)
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Biographies, Elementary Education, Journal Writing
Yes, Talking!: Organizing the Classroom to Promote Second Language Acquisition.
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Enright, 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)
The Elementary Critique.
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Ende-Saxe, Shirley – School Arts, 1990
Outlines difficulties of introducing art critiques in the elementary classroom. Recounts how problems were overcome by providing focus and allowing students to decide which classmates should critique their work. Provides a structure for critiquing art that builds verbal and analytical skills as students proceed from kindergarten to grade six. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Criticism, Art Education, Art Expression
Beginning to Talk about Art.
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Johnson, Margaret H. – School Arts, 1990
Explores the value of teaching art criticism and aesthetics to young children. Maintains that critical aesthetic experience reinforces such experiences in art production. Outlines seven methods to develop aesthetic language and shows how art criticism and aesthetics can be used by visiting a gallery or museum. (KM)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Aesthetic Values, Art Activities, Art Appreciation
Lexique et procedures heuristiques. Arguments pour un renouvellement de l'enseignement du vocabulaire au degre elementaire (Word-Study and Heuristic Processes. Arguments for a Renewal in the Teaching of Vocabulary at the Elementary Level). Acts of the Colloquium of the Swiss Interuniversity Commission for Applied Linguistics. CILA Bulletin, No. 28.
Muller, Charles – 1978
A study is described of heuristic devices useful in learning both native and second languages. The study concerns particularly the means used by very young students (second and third graders) in vocabulary acquisition and in the establishment of semantic relationships. It was of concern to verify if (1) the children would use their knowledge of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes, Elementary Education