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Instructor, 1982
This article suggests 11 projects for prekindergarten and kindergarten children (1) to teach letter recognition; (2) to develop eye-hand coordination; and (3) to help children understand weather; and (4) to provide art and drama activities on Thanksgiving themes. (PP)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Learning Activities, Letters (Alphabet), Teaching Methods
Burnham, Jon A. – Academic Therapy, 1986
Middle and secondary school students who continue to display reversal problems despite intervention should be taught to compensate. Compensation can be based on the student's common error problems. (CL)
Descriptors: Lateral Dominance, Learning Disabilities, Letters (Alphabet), Middle Schools
Polloway, Edward A.; Polloway, Carolyn H. – Academic Therapy, 1980
A four-step instructional procedure to assist the learning disabled child to distinguish the distinctive features of letters is described. The procedure involves distinguishing the lower case "b" via a fading out technique from its upper case counterpart "B." The letter directionality can be cued so that the "b-d" distinction is readily apparent.…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Letters (Alphabet)
Zitlaw, Jo Ann Bruce; Frank, Cheryl Standish – Instructor, 1985
"Alpha-Pets" are the focal point of an integrated, multidisciplinary curriculum. Each pet is featured for a week in a vocabulary-rich story and introduces related activities beginning with the featured letter, such as the four food groups during Freddie Fish's week or universe during Ulysses Unicorn's week. (MT)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach
Peer reviewedJones, Marian – Reading Teacher, 1983
Offers guidelines for helping children produce their own alphabet books. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Books, Language Acquisition, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedWalklin, Carol – Visible Language, 1977
Letterforms provide a natural and useful medium for teaching visual awareness, creativity, and many basic art education ideas to young children. (HOD)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Elementary Education, Letters (Alphabet)
Peer reviewedLitton, Nancy – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1995
Suggests ways to translate ideas in the book, "The Story of Z," into data analysis activities in kindergarten and second-grade classrooms. (MKR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Data Analysis, Grade 2, Graphs
Download full textNorthwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1983
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT (Except for the Evaluation Summary Table): VERSION: 3.3. PRODUCER: Hartley Courseware, Inc., Box 431, Dimondale, Michigan 48821. EVALUATION COMPLETED: January 1983 at the North Clackamas School District, Milwaukie, Oregon, and at Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Portland, Oregon. COST:…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Programs, Drills (Practice)
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1982
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT (Except for the Evaluation Summary Table): PRODUCER: Random House, Inc., School Division, 1970 Brandywine Rd., Atlanta, Georgia 30341. EVALUATION COMPLETED: June 1982 by staff of the Portland Public Schools, Oregon. COST: Cassette: $24 Disk: $34.50. ABILITY LEVEL: K-1. SUBJECT: Reading: location of…
Descriptors: Alphabetizing Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Drills (Practice)
Klumb, Kelly; Coe, Tony – 1989
Selecting from a wide variety of sources, this report presents instructional techniques for the remediation of letter reversal errors in young students' writing. The techniques in the report have been applied in classrooms and found to be successful with a great majority of students. Sections of the report include: (1) an introduction; (2)…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Handwriting, Instructional Materials, Letters (Alphabet)
Prior, Jennifer – 2003
This lesson, which is most appropriate for kindergartners, reviews letter names and their sounds through a group letter recognition activity, a picture book activity, and alphabet practice with several online activities. During three 30-minute sessions, students will: identify the letters of the alphabet; identify the sounds of letters; identify…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Kindergarten, Lesson Plans, Letters (Alphabet)
Egawa, Kathy – 2002
This lesson plan invites primary students to share their letter/sound knowledge in a small group and gives teachers an opportunity to assess knowledge in a meaningful context. Working with name cards, students share observations about their names and the names of their classmates. Extensions are appropriate for a range of primary-aged students.…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods, Lesson Plans, Letters (Alphabet)
Peer reviewedBrooks, Sarah – Two-Year College Mathematics Journal, 1980
A method for motivating programing techniques in a computer science class which uses alphametics, mathematical puzzles where words or phrases represent numerals or arithmetic operations, is given. (MK)
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Science Education, Computers, Higher Education
Soloway, Rhoda K. – Teacher, 1978
Describes a five-week project in which elementary students chose a favorite letter as the main character of a 25- to 30-page book for practice in language skills. The book each child made was composed of more than 20 learning activities that stimulated students to review and practice skills, parts of speech, synonyms, antonyms and alliteration as…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedOldrieve, Richard M. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1997
Describes the structured internalization spelling method, which uses a series of small, graduated steps to teach students with learning disabilities to transcribe phonological sounds (phonemes) as alphabetic letters (graphemes) onto paper. The implementation of the program and the benefits of structured internalization are presented along with a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Graphemes, Learning Disabilities, Lesson Plans
