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Tucker, Jim; Bartz, Ruth – 1980
Designed for junior high school teachers and students, this competency-based vocabulary guide offers 16 units of study on survival vocabulary. Included in the guide are a student section and a teacher key. Each unit in the student section contains a word list and four or more exercises which include definitions, word classification, word search,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Vocabulary, Functional Reading, Junior High Schools
Wise, John – 1979
A series of 10 high-interest, low-vocabulary reading books for adult basic education students is presented. The series begins with very simple vocabulary and gets progressively more difficult from book to book. Each book contains from four to six stories which focus on the lives and relationships of a variety of humorous characters living in a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, High Interest Low Vocabulary Books, Humor
Vitale, Edmund, Jr. – 1994
This packet contains an instructor guide and student workbook detailing 32 activities that hospital workers can use in a classroom setting to improve their vocabulary and spelling skills. The activities encompass the following: (1) different ways to look up words to spell them correctly; (2) pronunciation of words used around the workplace; (3)…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Hospital Personnel
Garretson, Edith May – Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927
This textbook aims to meet the foreign-born woman's pressing need of ability to understand and converse with the doctor, the nurse, and the teacher concerning her family and home for their present and future improvement. It is hoped that teachers using the book will supplement it with other simple lessons, health pamphlets, home and neighborhood…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Immigrants, Physician Patient Relationship, Nurses
Topolovac, Eleanore R.; And Others – 1982
Developed for teachers of elementary and junior high school students, the "Literature at Home" program is designed to stimulate recreational reading and to enrich the regular classroom reading curriculum. Lesson plans include synopses, vocabulary lists, short-answer questions, activities (including many writing activities), and projects…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Childrens Literature, Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Education