ERIC Number: EJ533086
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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Professional Growth. On the Brink of Illiteracy.
Cook, Jimmie
Teaching Pre K-8, v27 n3 p24-25 Nov-Dec 1996
Proposes teaching only language arts for three years for children from poor families who do not emphasize reading. Suggests methods including teacher and student story telling; story reading; practicing letter formations; singing or talking along with records or videotapes; discussing word meanings; reading poetry; and story writing with corrected invented spelling. (KDFB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Family Environment, Family Literacy, Handwriting, Illiteracy, Instructional Improvement, Instructional Innovation, Letters (Alphabet), Oral Reading, Poverty, Primary Education, Reading, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Instruction, Singing, Story Telling, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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