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| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 3 |
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| Reports - Descriptive | 2 |
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Peer reviewedRaum, Elizabeth – Journal of Reading, 1994
Discusses bringing local writers into the classroom--how to locate such writers and how to prepare for and organize the visit. (SR)
Descriptors: Authors, Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Development
Peer reviewedWheeler, Patricia M. – Journal of Reading, 1983
Explains how one teacher developed a cross-age tutoring program that allowed her high school students to help primary grade problem readers. Argues that high school students with reading problems make good tutors for troubled beginning readers because they are sympathetic and inventive. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cross Age Teaching, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedFrew, Andrew W. – Journal of Reading, 1990
Outlines a descriptive (not prescriptive) approach for the creation of a literature-based reading curriculum. Describes the 4 steps (behaving with basals, redefining reading, revving up for reading, and letting literature loose) that took the author 14 years of teaching to complete. Argues that literature-based reading programs are fun, enjoyable,…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Junior High Schools, Literature Appreciation, Middle Schools
