Integrating the Language Arts: From the Classroom to the Community. Research into Practice.

Wood, Karen D.; Jones, Jeanneine P.

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Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1996

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Integrating the Language Arts: From the Classroom to the Community. Research into Practice.

Wood, Karen D.; Jones, Jeanneine P.

Middle School Journal, v28 n2 p49-53 Nov 1996

Presents seven examples of integrating language arts into the curriculum through the use of community connections: (1) exploring curriculum with themed instruction; (2) promoting discussion; (3) using oral language; (4) introducing "found poetry"; (5) writing across the curriculum; (6) sharing an interpretive reading activity in a readers' theater; and (7) using collaborative arrangements. (DLH)

Descriptors: Community Services, Curriculum Development, Integrated Activities, Integrated Curriculum, Language Arts, Learning Activities, Middle Schools, Poetry, Readers Theater, School Support, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Speech Communication, Thematic Approach, Writing Across the Curriculum

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General

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Language: English

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