Presents an exercise that will show acting students how to tell the audience a good story. Discusses how students must assume responsibility for creating the best possible story based on a central object as insignificant as a penny might appear to be. Describes experiences of taking the students through four "rounds" of this exercise. (SC)

An audio stimulus activity involves listening to a taped narrative and then responding to several questions. Narratives can be tailored to accommodate their varied audiences, since audiences are more "tuned in" when they are participating in activities to which they can relate. As a group project, students in a listening course at the…

Jones suggests that Johns' article recommending extensive use of real or authentic audiences in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) or English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) writing has pushed the value of authenticity too far. Johns' notes basic disagreement about some of the things ESL/EFL teachers can and should do and recommends a collaborative,…

Intended to help individuals become better educators, this book can serve as a reference for teaching fundamentals and challenge experienced teachers to expand their repertoire of skills in working with their various audiences. The presentation techniques delineated in the book have proved successful in the classroom, at conferences, and in…

Includes a preface and two articles: "Rhetoric in Action: Roger's Social Studies Classroom" and "Rhetorical Understandings for Social Studies Teachers." Details how one teacher applies rhetorical principles to teaching, so that student learning, enjoyment, and motivation increase. Focuses on the definitions and principles of…

This guide is the result of three projects that have been working to address the problem of intergenerational illiteracy in writing. While writing skills are limited among the general population, they are even more limited among limited-English-speaking students (both school-aged and adult learners). The guidebook is a self-help manual for…

This teacher's guide was developed to help teachers improve learning by incorporating writing into mathematics instruction. The document is divided into three sections. The issue of why writing should be utilized in the mathematics classroom is addressed in the first section. The topics discussed include why students should utilize writing in…