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Graham, Margaret Baker – Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 1998
Describes an approach that can be used in a business communication course to help students identify some of the complex issues affecting in-house writing. Presents student responses to a writing assignment involving writing non-routine requests (bad news memos) to subordinates. (SG)
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Business Education, Higher Education, Language Usage
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Clark, John R. – Exercise Exchange, 1995
Describes ways in which freshman composition classes can be made more interesting, such as the use of cliche analysis. Defines cliche, and provides some appropriate examples for classroom use. (PA)
Descriptors: Cliches, Freshman Composition, High Schools, Higher Education
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Arnold, Jane – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1998
Describes how a weekly focused journal writing assessment (in which students note any use of language they find interesting, puzzling, amusing, or annoying as well as their response to it) enhances composition students' awareness of how language is used and where. Offers several different advantages of such journal writing. (SR)
Descriptors: College English, Higher Education, Journal Writing, Language Usage
Gardner, Traci – 2003
Boom! Br-r-ring! Cluck! Moo!--exciting sounds are everywhere. Whether visiting online sites that play sounds or taking a "sound hike," ask your students to notice the sounds they hear, then write their own book, using sound words, based on Dr. Seuss's "Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?" During the three 45-minute sessions, grade K-2…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Language Usage, Lesson Plans, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Fraser, Greg – Teachers & Writers, 2001
Presents diary excerpts that emerged from two separate teaching experiences with fifth and second graders. Reflects on the author's efforts to communicate the wonder of language and imagination to students. Concludes that by taking account of his own lessons as well as the students' responses to the exercises, the author discovered in a new light…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Imagination, Language Usage
Muschla, Gary Robert – 1991
Designed for elementary and secondary English and language arts teachers, this book provides 74 lists for developing instructional materials and planning lessons. The book also includes 89 practical activities and reproducible line master worksheets that motivate students to simultaneously improve writing skills, word usage, and vocabulary. For…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts, Language Usage
McCarthy, William Bernard – 1992
The principle of empathic learning (involving activities that help students feel what it is to be like someone else) can be used to teach poetry, a material about which students have strong prejudices, and an activity they cannot imagine themselves ever doing or being interested in. First, students are presented with the conception that people…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Empathy, Figurative Language
Robinson, Sandra R.; McAuliffe, Lindsay – 1989
Developed in a wide variety of classrooms for students in grades 4-6 and in collaboration with teachers who have used the material successfully, this two-volume set presents a way to get students excited about words. The set can also be used with younger and older students, even with adults. The two volumes provide: an "up-on-your-feet,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades, Language Patterns
Rooks, Kristen – 2002
Based on Miguel de Cervantes' novel "Don Quixote," this lesson plan presents activities designed to help students understand that Quixote's misperceptions are understandable; writers often describe one object to sound as if it were something else; and metaphors help readers see with new eyes. The main activity of the lesson involves students…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Language Arts, Language Usage
Stambovsky, Phillip – 1991
A class "on" metaphor can be usefully distinguished from a class "in" metaphor. A class on metaphor concentrates on metaphor theory and function. To teach in metaphor would be to coach students in pragmatics, to guide them in the study of how key metaphors are used and help to structure discrete universes of discourse. For…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
Malkoc, Anna Maria, Comp.; Montalvan, Ruth G., Comp. – 1995
The 26 teaching strategies in this collection originally appeared in IDEAS PLUS, a special publication of the National Council of Teachers of English. The teaching strategies are entitled: (1) "A Dream House" (Thomas M. Cobb); (2) "A Journal-Writing Pot of Gold" (Irina Markova); (3) "Adopt-a-Word" (Annette Matherne); (4) "Contrasting Moods" (Don…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
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Carpenter, Carol – College English, 1981
Offers research topics and three class activities designed to explore the implications of sexism while building reading and writing skills. (RL)
Descriptors: Assignments, Class Activities, College English, College Freshmen
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Wansor, Collin T. – English Journal, 1991
Describes two writing activities (based on S. I. Hayakawa's discussion of biased thinking in his book "Language in Thought and Action") that are designed to enable students to recognize and become sensitive to closemindedness. (KEH)
Descriptors: Egocentrism, English Curriculum, Grade 12, High Schools
Discovery Communications, Inc., Bethesda, MD. – 2002
Based on Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanac," this lesson plan presents activities designed to help students understand that Ben Franklin is known, among other things, for his wit and wisdom; that Franklin published an almanac for 25 years; and he scattered aphorisms throughout the almanac. The main activity in the lesson is for students…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Colonial History (United States), English Instruction, Language Arts
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Shafer, Gregory – English Journal, 2001
Describes how the author, teaching at a South Florida high school with many children of Mexican-American migrant workers, shaped his English instruction in scenarios that reflected students' lives and cultures. Shows how class discussions and assignments probed the worthiness of the language used and the reason why it was successful. Argues that…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Class Activities, English Instruction, High Schools
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