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Piper, Terry – 1986
A second grade teacher's use of storytelling to teach English language skills to both native speakers and learners of English as a second language (ESL) is described. The technique combines the concept of comprehensible input, the importance of stories and storytelling to children, and a commitment to teaching writing skills. Early in the day, all…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, English (Second Language), Grade 2
Download full textJeremiah, Milford A. – 1987
Secondary and postsecondary students can be taught writing skills using a step-by-step examination of a television news or documentary program that can be undertaken in a single class period. The procedure consists of a series of strategies to facilitate the instructional process, as follows: (1) as a warm-up mechanism, the teacher introduces the…
Descriptors: Documentaries, English Instruction, Instructional Materials, Interdisciplinary Approach
Hawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. – 1984
This introductory manual offers an overview of the Hawaii English Program in Literature for elementary students--a program designed to help children enjoy and understand literature through active exploration of a variety of stories and poems from contemporary works as well as from the classics. Part I, "Preparing to Teach the Program",…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Creative Dramatics
Cunneen, Sally – 1983
In an interdisciplinary curriculum for adults, four seminars were created that presented literature as reading, encouraged writing, and met the adult concern for relevance and shared learning. The four seminars focused on basic human concerns and relationships in a sequential ladder moving from individual to interpersonal to social and…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Continuing Education, Discovery Learning, English Instruction
McKee, Macey Blackburn – 1982
A method of teaching English as a second language (ESL) involving open sentence combining practice with group discussion was compared with a more traditional teaching method. Students were largely college-bound and attended the University of Arizona's ESL Center. Sentence combining was analyzed for a paragraph-length exercise on a low-level…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Discussion (Teaching Technique), English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Danielson, Susan – 1981
Designed in a flexible format for use by college instructors, high school teachers, and community education workers, this curriculum packet serves as an introduction to the life and works of black poet Langston Hughes. The major component of the packet is a critical essay that explores the thematic highlights of Hughes's career. The remaining…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Black Culture, Blacks, Class Activities
Howerton, Mary Lou P.; And Others – 1977
The relationships of quantitative measures of writing skills to overall writing quality as measured by the E.T.S. Composition Evaluation Scale (CES) were examined. Quantitative measures included indices of language productivity, vocabulary diversity, spelling, and syntactic maturity. Power of specific indices to account for variation in overall…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Grade 12, Grade 4
Flores, Merced, Comp. – 1981
Developed by experienced migrant education teachers using several Sight and Sound Program concepts, this volume presents approximately 150 pre-drafted individual short-term Plan/Records in the subject area of secondary level communication arts, and step-by-step utilization directions for Oregon resource teachers, classroom teachers, and aides. The…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Communication Skills, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Criteria
National Assessment and Dissemination Center for Bilingual Education, Fall River, MA. – 1976
A Spanish language workbook built around the theme of living together is presented here. It contains two units, "Companerismo" and "Cualidades humanizantes," and a total of five lessons. Lessons one and two of Unit One, "Ayudemonos" and "Mi amigo, mi hermano" present a passage for reading comprehension, various types of comprehension exercises…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Language Arts
Cooper, Thomas C. – 1978
A study was conducted with the following objectives: (1) to determine if sentence-combining practice would prove to be an efficient way of promoting statistically significant syntactic development in the writing of third quarter college students of French, German, and Spanish; (2) to apply the methodology for analysis of writing samples to…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), French, German, Higher Education
Alloway, Evans; And Others – 1979
This report of a year-long writing project that involved over 1,600 junior and senior high school students concludes that students taught by teachers trained in writing as a process showed significant improvement over students of teachers who were not so trained. The report describes the goals and objectives of the New Jersey Writing Project, the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Research, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
APPLEGATE, MAUREE – 1965
ADDRESSED TO THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT FACED WITH A POETRY-WRITING ASSIGNMENT, THIS BOOK PRESENTS THE ARGUMENT THAT "POETRY IS FOR YOU." INDIVIDUAL CHAPTERS TREAT (1) THE EXPRESSION OF SENSORY IMPRESSIONS, (2) RHYTHM, (3) THE PICTORIAL NATURE OF POETRY, (4) HUMOROUS POETRY, (5) REVISION, AND (6) VARIOUS DEFINITIONS OF POETRY. A "KINDLE KIT"…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, English Instruction, Figurative Language
Defense Language Inst., Washington, DC. – 1965
This nine-volume basic course in Cantonese Chinese is designed for 47 weeks of intense audiolingual instruction. The first book of the series introduces the pronunciation, with emphasis on the tone system, and the basic aspects of the grammar. Also introduced in this volume is the romanization system used in this series (the U.S. Army Language…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Cantonese, Chinese Culture, Grammar
Bloomington Public Schools, MN. – 1977
This booklet contains the 14 exercises that are used in the Bloomington, Minnesota, school system's writing assessment program. Depending on their applicability, the exercises may be used to assess the writing performance of fourth-, eighth-, or eleventh-grade students. Thirteen of the exercises are from the National Assessment of Educational…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Bloomington Public Schools, MN. – 1977
This summary of the Bloomington, Minnesota, public schools writing assessment program includes background information about the selection of exercises that assessed fourth-, eighth-, and eleventh-grade students' writing abilities, a list of these exercises that were used, and information about the students who were assessed. The results of the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
