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Grammar as Fact and Fiction
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Tabbert, Russell – Language Arts, 1976
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
When Did "Yes" Become "Right"?
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Partridge, Margaret – Language Arts, 1976
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Usage, North American English, Speech Habits
Using Language in a Special Way to Get Acquainted
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Cadenhead, Kenneth – Language Arts, 1976
Describes a technique for getting students acquainted which involves having them coin words based on each other's first names. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Ability, Language Arts, Language Patterns
Reading with a Sense of Writer: Writing with a Sense of Reader.
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Holt, Suzanne L.; Vacca, JoAnne L. – Language Arts, 1981
Examines the reading and writing processes and their interdependence and urges the language arts instructor to be an audience for children's writing and to help them become aware that what they read is someone else's writing. (HTH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Language Patterns
Electronic Aids in Spelling.
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Nolen, Patricia A. – Language Arts, 1980
Indicates in poetic form the author's doubts about electronic devices that emphasize spelling drills; notes her preference for instruction based on patterns of language. (GT)
Descriptors: Drills (Practice), Electronic Equipment, Elementary Education, Language Patterns
Research Update: Demonstrations, Engagement and Sensitivity: A Revised Approach to Language Learning.
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Smith, Frank – Language Arts, 1981
The conventions inherent to language are explored, and demonstrations, engagement, and sensitivity are discussed as factors present in all learning situations in which a person learns to master these complex conventions. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Language Patterns
Recognizing Sex-linked Language
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Edelsky, Carole – Language Arts, 1976
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Educational Research, Language Acquisition
Research Currents: What Is a Context for Learning through Language?
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Genishi, Celia – Language Arts, 1984
Presents a variety of social contexts for verbal interaction between adult and child and between children. Discusses the variations in interaction caused by different contexts, as well as features that are consistent across contexts. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, Interaction, Interpersonal Communication
Launching Nonstandard Speakers into Standard English.
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Tompkins, Gail E.; McGee, Lea M. – Language Arts, 1983
Describes a program for introducing nonstandard speakers to standard English syntactic patterns that involves three steps: (1) introducing the new pattern, (2) providing practice, and (3) manipulating the new pattern. (JL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English, Instructional Improvement, Language Patterns
Moving Language Around: Helping Students Become Aware of Language Structure.
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Hutson, Barbara A. – Language Arts, 1980
Presents a perspective on the system of language levels and logical operations that effective language users employ. Offers a rational for teaching this language system. Suggests activities for "moving language around" to help students develop concepts about language structures. (RL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Patterns, Language Processing, Language Skills
Writing by Imitating Language Models
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Cramer, Ronald L.; Cramer, Barbara B. – Language Arts, 1975
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Language Patterns
Linguistic and Cognitive Competencies in the Middle Grades
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Sawyer, Diane J. – Language Arts, 1975
To determine student readiness in any academic subject, teachers must determine individual levels of cognitive competencies children possess.
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Individualized Instruction, Language Patterns
Children's Rhymes and Literacy Learning: Making Connections.
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Geller, Linda Gibson – Language Arts, 1983
Examines children's attraction to rhythm and rhyme of nursery rhymes and how these factors affect literacy. Discusses the connection between rhyme and reading and spelling acquisition. (HTH)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
What Makes a Good Speller?
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Marino, Jacqueline L. – Language Arts, 1980
Describes an informal study that yielded information about differences between good and poor sixth-grade spellers in their awareness that spelling involves prediction strategies and in their awareness of letter frequencies, pattern frequencies, and positional constraints on spelling. Outlines a few implications for spelling instruction. (GT)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Games, Elementary Education, High Achievement
Logic in Language
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Cruikshank, Douglas E. – Language Arts, 1975
Language arts games are described that combine mathematical experiences and language development.
Descriptors: Educational Games, Elementary Education, Integrated Activities, Language Arts
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