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Pehrsson, Robert S. – 1983
To avoid confusing children, a reading approach from the very beginning should stress logical relationships based on experiences. Drilling words, sounds, or even sentences should be avoided since these practices lead to deviant schemes. A lifetime scheme involves teaching a child a process. Children need to learn a process by which they can…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Paragraph Composition
Wepner, Shelley B. – 1983
Flowcharting, a skill used to program computers, can be used to teach reading skills. Like programing, flowcharting requires knowledge of a particular content area and an understanding of how to process the information. Skills such as identifying the main idea and supporting details, sequencing ideas or statements, and distinguishing relevant from…
Descriptors: Diagrams, Elementary Secondary Education, Flow Charts, Paragraph Composition
Marshak, David – 1979
Designed to provide an introduction to study skills for students in the eighth, ninth, and tenth grades, this teacher's guide provides a series of 12 activity-oriented units, most of which require one period of class time. The units in the guide cover the following topics: (1) learning to listen, (2) vocabulary (getting meaning from context), (3)…
Descriptors: Listening Skills, Notetaking, Paragraph Composition, Reading Comprehension
Drobnic, Karl – 1978
One portion of a course in English for Science and Technology (EST) designed for foreign nuclear engineers studying at Oregon State University dealt with the conceptual paragraph, considered a basic unit of discourse in EST. The conceptual paragraph is defined as a group of rhetorically related concepts developing a generalization to form a…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Engineering Education, Foreign Students, Graduate Study
Barnes, Martha; And Others – 1983
The purpose of this curriculum guide is to assist Training Specialists to teach Adult Basic Education/General Education Development (ABE/GED) students intermediate skills in reading, English, and mathematics. The guide begins with an introduction (purpose, overview, adult learner characteristics, teacher type), curriculum policies, curriculum…
Descriptors: Addition, Adult Basic Education, Arithmetic, Behavioral Objectives