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Download full textGardner, Traci – 2003
Boom! Br-r-ring! Cluck! Moo!--exciting sounds are everywhere. Whether visiting online sites that play sounds or taking a "sound hike," ask your students to notice the sounds they hear, then write their own book, using sound words, based on Dr. Seuss's "Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?" During the three 45-minute sessions, grade K-2…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Language Usage, Lesson Plans, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Muschla, Gary Robert – 1991
Designed for elementary and secondary English and language arts teachers, this book provides 74 lists for developing instructional materials and planning lessons. The book also includes 89 practical activities and reproducible line master worksheets that motivate students to simultaneously improve writing skills, word usage, and vocabulary. For…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts, Language Usage
Robinson, Sandra R.; McAuliffe, Lindsay – 1989
Developed in a wide variety of classrooms for students in grades 4-6 and in collaboration with teachers who have used the material successfully, this two-volume set presents a way to get students excited about words. The set can also be used with younger and older students, even with adults. The two volumes provide: an "up-on-your-feet,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades, Language Patterns
Rooks, Kristen – 2002
Based on Miguel de Cervantes' novel "Don Quixote," this lesson plan presents activities designed to help students understand that Quixote's misperceptions are understandable; writers often describe one object to sound as if it were something else; and metaphors help readers see with new eyes. The main activity of the lesson involves students…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Language Arts, Language Usage
Stambovsky, Phillip – 1991
A class "on" metaphor can be usefully distinguished from a class "in" metaphor. A class on metaphor concentrates on metaphor theory and function. To teach in metaphor would be to coach students in pragmatics, to guide them in the study of how key metaphors are used and help to structure discrete universes of discourse. For…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
Malkoc, Anna Maria, Comp.; Montalvan, Ruth G., Comp. – 1995
The 26 teaching strategies in this collection originally appeared in IDEAS PLUS, a special publication of the National Council of Teachers of English. The teaching strategies are entitled: (1) "A Dream House" (Thomas M. Cobb); (2) "A Journal-Writing Pot of Gold" (Irina Markova); (3) "Adopt-a-Word" (Annette Matherne); (4) "Contrasting Moods" (Don…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Discovery Communications, Inc., Bethesda, MD. – 2002
Based on Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanac," this lesson plan presents activities designed to help students understand that Ben Franklin is known, among other things, for his wit and wisdom; that Franklin published an almanac for 25 years; and he scattered aphorisms throughout the almanac. The main activity in the lesson is for students…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Colonial History (United States), English Instruction, Language Arts
