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Kidwatching: Documenting Children's Literacy Development.
Owocki, Gretchen; Goodman, Yetta – 2002
This practical guidebook aims to show preschool, kindergarten, and primary teachers how to refine their literacy evaluation practices through careful "kidwatching." By observing and recording children's literacy development, teachers also develop new understandings of the ways children think and learn. Ultimately, through kidwatching,…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Evaluation Methods
Language Arts: On the Right Track
Morrison, Faye – Teacher, 1977
Building a railroad or writing about it in class takes a lot of organization. (Editor)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Data Collection, Group Activities, Information Processing
Don't Stamp on Me: Postage Stamps as a Teaching Device
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Skaggs, David Curtis; Mills, Larry Dean – Social Education, 1977
Teachers at the elementary, secondary, or college level can use postage stamps to help students develop skills in language arts, data gathering, and critical analysis. The era of the American Revolution is used to illustrate this teaching technique. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Integrating Geography Skills and Local History: A Third Grade Case Study.
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Whitlow, Fay R.; Sidelnick, Daniel J. – Social Studies Journal, 1991
Discusses a study unit that integrated geography skills, language arts, and local history. Identifies the objectives of the lesson. Explains that students gathered information through interviews, letter writing, newspaper articles, and other research. Reports that students ultimately constructed a three-dimensional model of their community. (CH)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Case Studies, Data Collection, Elementary Education