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Peer reviewedLatrobe, Kathy – Emergency Librarian, 1996
Readers' theater engages students in reading and writing activities that offer both affective and cognitive rewards. Students can develop their own scripts that introduce books, replacing the traditional book report with creative participation and active peer recommendation. Appendices provide two sample scripts. (AEF)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Creative Writing
Download full textNixon-Ponder, Sarah, Comp. – 1995
This publication shares three "best teaching practices" as identified by the Ohio Literacy Resource Center from responses from Ohio's adult literacy programs. "Identifying Errors in Writing" (Mary Cupilary) is a writing improvement strategy/lesson that involves selecting one sentence from a paragraph written by each student,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Classroom Techniques, Current Events, English (Second Language)
Lengeling, M. Martha; And Others – 1995
Readers Theater, a combination of storytelling and dramatic elements, is recommended as a technique for use in the English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) classroom. Among its advantages are that it incorporates four language skill areas (Listening, speaking, reading, writing), uses cultural materials, and motivates students by using language in a…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Language), Dramatics
Pobega, Dale – Literacy Now, 1996
As part of the Victorian Certificate of General Education for Adults (CGEA) in Australia, a project involves students in writing, editing, and distributing The World Times, a student newspaper. Due to a lack of funds, the Internet has become an alternative means of publication, and the@LBE-ELECTRONIC (@LBE-E) World Wide Web site has become a new…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Computer Uses in Education
PDF pending restorationArcher, David; Cottingham, Sara – 1996
The participatory rural appraisal (PRA) technique was used with 1,550 women and 420 men in more than 100 villages in Uganda, El Salvador, and Bangladesh over a 2-year period to develop and pilot test an approach to literacy education called REFLECT (Regenerated Freirean Literacy through Empowering Community Techniques). The REFLECT approach, which…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Community Development
Liu, Min; Pedersen, Susan – 1998
Current educational theory and practice clearly show that project-based instruction has the potential to enhance learning. Preliminary findings on one type of project-based learning in which students take on the role of hypermedia designers support this claim. This study examined the effect of being hypermedia designers on fourth-graders'…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Designers, Educational Environment
Weryackwe, Suzanne, Ed.; And Others – 1982
A product of the 1982 American Indian Language Development Institute, sponsored by the Center of Indian Education and the Bilingual Education Service Center at Arizona State University, the curriculum guide reflects valuable language and cultural information of six tribal language groups (Hualapai, Havasupai, Papago, Pima, Ute, and Shoshone).…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, American Indian Studies, Bilingual Education
Ecklund, Constance L. – 1985
Teaching conversation will always pose a great challenge to the foreign language instructor. Even by the third year of language study, the typical time for this skill's development, students have neither the fluency nor the confidence necessary to speak easily. Also, since many are ill at ease in conversing in their native language, getting these…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Communication, College Second Language Programs, College Students
Peyton, Joy Kreeft; Seyoum, Mulugetta – 1988
A study examined the interaction strategies of one teacher for promoting student writing in the dialogue journals of 12 limited-English-proficient sixth grade students and the effect of these strategies on the length and complexity of the students' writing. The teacher strategies identified include requests for a reply and personal contributions…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language)
King, James R.; And Others – 1984
A college-level integrated study skills and orientation course is described. The unique aspect of the course is that learning/teaching occurs in the context of the university environment. Learning experiences generally utilized with this approach to reading and study skills instruction are illustrated by the following projects: an organized…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Course Descriptions, Guides
McTeer, J. Hugh; Jackson, Barry N. – 1978
This paper describes a computer-assisted instruction program which was used in a senior high school local government course. In the fall of 1978, a contract was worked out between four senior American government students who were also studying fifth year mathematics. In return for writing a computer program on local government, which would count…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Programs, Feedback
STEGALL, CARRIE – 1967
A TEACHER'S EXPERIENCE IN GUIDING A GROUP OF 40 FOURTH-GRADERS IN WRITING A BOOK IS REPORTED, AND THE BOOK IS INCLUDED. PROVIDED ARE DESCRIPTIONS OF--(1) THE STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS OF WRITING EACH CHAPTER OF THE BOOK, (2) THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STUDENTS'"OWN ENGLISH BOOK"--RULES FOR USAGE, SPELLING, PUNCTUATION, AND CAPITALIZATION,…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Creative Activities, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
Stegall, Carrie – 1967
A teacher's experience in guiding a group of 40 fourth-graders in writing a book is reported, and the book is included. Provided are descriptions of--(1) the step-by-step process of writing each chapter of the book, (2) the development of the students'"own English book"--rules for usage, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization, discovered by the…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Creative Activities, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedChurchwell, Gordon; Weller, Cyril J.; Sommer, Peter – T.H.E. Journal, 1997
Describes Hometown Discovery, a project where high school students created interactive, interdisciplinary multimedia learning presentations for fourth-grade students on local history. Topics include discovery learning; community-based collaboration; community as content and production resource; leveraged learning; modular production; students as…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Grade 4
Direct linkFriedman, Robert S.; Drakes, Jerri; Deek, Fadi P. – Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, 2002
A software development collaboration project designed to maximize the skill sets and interests of school children and teachers, educational software technologists and researchers, and college undergraduates is presented. The work brings elementary school children with college seniors and technology consultants to implement a problem-solving…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, College Seniors, Student Projects, Active Learning
