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McLaughlin, Maureen; Allen, Mary Beth – 2002
This teaching model for grades 3-8, a guided comprehension model, is a step-by-step teaching framework that encourages students to become active, strategic readers by providing direct strategy instruction, numerous opportunities for engagement, and a variety of texts and instructional settings. The model was developed in response to the disparity…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
Lazear, David – 1998
This book offers 44 activities for developing capacities of seven types of intelligence identified by Howard Gardner in his theory of multiple intelligences. The activities, grouped by the type of intelligence the activity primarily fosters, are intended for students to do on their own. The intelligences and sample activities are as follows: (1)…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences, Learning Activities

Carr, Eileen; Ogle, Donna – Journal of Reading, 1987
Adds mapping and summarization to the K-W-L (know, want to know, learned) strategy to produce a reading-thinking strategy, equally helpful to remedial and nonremedial high school students for content area textbooks. (NKA)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Independent Study, Learning Activities
Gradowksi, Gail, Ed.; Snavely, Loanne, Ed.; Dempsey, Paula, Ed. – 1998
A total of 54 designs for successful active learning strategies for library instruction in the classroom are presented in this sourcebook. These librarian-authored strategies have been developed and used successfully in instruction. The lesson designs are divided into five sections: Basic Library Instruction; Searching Indexes and Online Catalogs;…
Descriptors: Active Learning, High Schools, Higher Education, Information Literacy
Carroll, Joyce Armstrong, Ed. – 1990
Designed to provide examples of the art form that in teaching has been tagged "the lesson cycle," this monograph contains a collection of 50 exemplary lessons that elementary and secondary English teachers have designed and that demonstrate the fusion of form and content that characterize the art of their teaching. The monograph is…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Arts, Learning Activities
Jolley, Jeanne Swafford – 1985
The ultimate goal of reading instruction is to develop independent readers. To become independent, students must be in control of their own thinking processes. They must be aware of cognition and the conscious use of metacognitive processes. Instruction in metacognition will help students gain control over their own thought processes. Interaction…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Interaction
Tyner, Beverly – 2004
As many schools are adapting to an ever-increasing broad range of learners, it becomes more important than ever to develop instruction to respond to these academically diverse students. Without differentiated reading instruction, some children will fall further behind, while others will be left unchallenged. This book presents the Small-Group…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Learning Activities

Applebee, Arthur N.; Langer, Judith A. – Language Arts, 1983
Discusses a model for teaching reading and writing in which skilled language users provide support for new language activities in context. Gives examples of typical classroom activities that provide too little or too much support for natural language growth and of activities with a balanced instructional "scaffolding." (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Language Usage
Leonard, Phyllis B. – 1998
School library media specialists play a special role in the education of gifted students, particularly in the use of literature across the curriculum. The CUES program, developed for gifted students, actively promotes the reading/curriculum connection, thus providing an invaluable model for all educators. Calling for structured interaction between…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cooperative Learning, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Elementary Education
Almasi, Janice F. – 2003
This book focuses on a key component of literacy instruction: helping children become thoughtful, independent readers who are able to use a flexible repertoire of reading strategies for comprehension and word recognition. The book presents research-based explanations and guidelines that culminate in a comprehensive strategy instruction model. It…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Graphic Organizers
Eisenberg, Michael B.; Berkowitz, Robert E. – 1999
This book about using the Big6 information problem solving process model in elementary schools is organized into two parts. Providing an overview of the Big6 approach, Part 1 includes the following chapters: "Introduction: The Need," including the information problem, the Big6 and other process models, and teaching/learning the Big6;…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Information Literacy
Benaiges, Phil – Teaching History, 2005
Much has been said and written about different learning styles in recent years. Some people have responded with evangelical enthusiasm, others exercise a more cautious approach, whilst a few disregard it completely. Certainly, there are problems in allowing learning style "audits" to shape our teaching strategies entirely. But one…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies, Educational Practices

O'Shea, Thomas – School Science and Mathematics, 1993
Presents a teaching model as an activity to introduce preservice secondary mathematics teachers to the law of cosines. The activity is student-centered in which students construct figures; measure angles and segments; calculate areas; investigate relationships; and communicate their results. (MDH)
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Learning Activities, Mathematical Formulas, Mathematics Education
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. Div. of Instructional Services. – 1975
This handbook, designed for the language arts teacher, is based on the ideas that content area teachers must be responsible for specialized reading skills within their content areas and that reading instruction should not cease after the first six grades. Specific techniques and activities are suggested for developing the correlation between…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials

Buschman, Larry – Arithmetic Teacher, 1993
Describes an activity that demonstrates a teaching-learning model in which students ask yes or no questions to determine an unknown number on a number line. Provides a sequence of five steps to carry out the activity and suggestions for extending and expanding the activity for different grade levels. (MDH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Discovery Processes, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Education
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