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Weiner, Wendy F. – English Journal, 1986
Reviews how a sophomore class of gifted students selected a subject for their learning logs; tells how to write a learning log; offers ideas on evaluating learning logs; presents student reflections on the use of learning logs. (JK)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Content Area Writing, Learning Activities, Learning Strategies
Bing, Sally B. – Academic Therapy, 1988
Described are strategies that help writing-disabled students improve handwriting skills (e.g., provide models, use prompting and fading techniques, teach proofing skills) and strategies that allow students to circumvent handwriting problems so they can concentrate on the subject matter content (e.g., typewriters, computers, oral reports and…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Elementary Education, Handwriting, Learning Strategies
Kelly, Leonard P. – Perspectives for Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, 1987
Writing-to-Learn provides a method for designing writing assignments that help hearing-impaired students master content learning objectives. While it has been used primarily with university students, it should prove equally successful with elementary and secondary school students. Detailed suggestions for using the approach and a sample project…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments
Rosser, Becky – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1987
Describes a three-stage method for organizing a research paper which focuses on teaching the mechanics of organization: (1) organizing the material; (2) the composing process; and (3) revision. Detailed steps are outlined for each stage. (CLB)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities, Learning Strategies
Smith, Bonnie; Carre, Clive – Highway One, 1984
Describes how a teacher with little background in science helped her students write puppet plays as part of their learning about the science of rainbows. (FL)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Drama, Elementary Education
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Cavin, G. E. – Clearing House, 1983
Discusses the need for administrators to focus on how their students revise written work, considers the relationship of the revision process to learning, and speculates on why revision is not usually seen as a major part of student writing. (FL)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies
Brozo, William G.; Simpson, Michele L. – 1999
This book is about widening life and career options for students in the middle and upper grades through literacy. The book's one overarching assertion is that teachers of all subjects can create engaging learning environments where readers and learners use literacy for personal pleasure and as a tool of mind expansion. It seeks to empower teachers…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Educational Environment, Learning Strategies
Upton, James – 1986
Writing across the curriculum, or "writing-as-learning" (WAL), represents one of the most successful developments in writing instruction. WAL is an efficient teaching method for achieving educational goals in today's society because it effectively engages students in both the means and the ends of their education. Research has shown that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Activities
Ediger, Marlow – 2000
Language arts experiences integrate well with quality science lessons and units of study. For example, there are many opportunities for listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities in science. Ideas gleaned in science need to be communicated in diverse ways involving one or more senders and receivers of messages. Students may read about…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Elementary Education, Language Arts
Risinger, C. Frederick – 1987
A recent study by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) directly links writing effectiveness to development of skills in critical thinking. This ERIC Digest discusses: (1) recent research on the linkage between writing and learning; (2) successful approaches to teaching writing; and (3) suggestions for including an effective…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Writing, Creative Teaching, Learning Strategies
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1989
Intended to assist teachers at all levels and to help students become independent strategic learners, this guide is based on the philosophy that with proper instruction students can understand the reading/learning process and apply this knowledge across the curriculum. Strategies presented in this guide are designed to aid learning from content…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies
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Ellis, Edwin S.; Lenz, B. Keith – Focus on Exceptional Children, 1990
Empirical studies on teaching content-area information to underachieving or mildly disabled students are reviewed. Instructional options include content reduction, learnable text, content enhancement, use of audiorecordings and computer-assisted instruction, and promoting use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies. A content enhancement model…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
George, John; Dale, Kathy – 1990
Collaborative learning strategies can improve the learning of subject matter in content area classrooms, but they are only one aspect among many that influence how much learning will take place in a class period. The Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DR-TA) is an effective teaching/learning strategy to use with content area material. Much of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Cooperative Learning
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Gebhard, Ann O. – Journal of Reading, 1983
Discusses four principles derived from theory and practice that make incorporating writing into any class easy and worthwhile: (1) creating audience awareness, (2) making writing tasks consequential, (3) varying writing assignments, and (4) using writing to help students integrate new material into what they already. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Integrated Activities, Learning Strategies
Ediger, Marlow – 2000
In school, writing may be emphasized across the curriculum. There is a plethora of kinds of written work for students to be engaged in when studying science lessons and units. Poetry writing may be an excellent way for students to reveal what has been learned in a science unit. Many good poems dealing with science information are collected in…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Content Area Writing, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
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