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Bilton, Caroline; Duff, Aoife – Education Endowment Foundation, 2021
This report offers seven practical, evidence-based recommendations that are relevant to all pupils, and particularly to those struggling with their literacy. To develop the recommendations, we reviewed the best available international research and consulted experts to arrive at key principles for effective literacy teaching. This second edition of…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice
Roseboro, Anna J. Small; Marschall, Claudia A. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021
New college instructors often are advised, coached, and mentored by department professors who may not have scheduled class time to meet regularly with their novice educators. This book meets many of the principles outlined in the position statements of the Conference on College Composition and Communications and the Council of Writing Program…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Morale, Beginning Teachers, Teaching Guides
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Quigley, Alex; Coleman, Robbie – Education Endowment Foundation, 2019
This guidance report aims to help secondary schools improve literacy in all subject areas. It provides seven recommendations related to reading, writing, talk, vocabulary development and supporting struggling students. Throughout the report, recommendations emphasise the importance of disciplinary literacy. Disciplinary literacy is an approach to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Literacy Education, Reading Instruction
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Education Endowment Foundation, 2018
This guidance report offers early years professionals seven practical evidence-based recommendations to provide every child--but particularly those from disadvantaged homes--with a high quality and well-rounded grounding in early literacy, language and communication. One recommendation focuses on the importance of high quality interactions between…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Emergent Literacy, Economically Disadvantaged, Early Childhood Education
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Higgins, Steve; Martell, Thomas; Waugh, David; Henderson, Peter; Sharples, Jonathan – Education Endowment Foundation, 2017
This report offers seven practical evidence-based recommendations--that are relevant to all pupils, but particularly to those struggling with their literacy. To develop the recommendations we reviewed the best available international research and consulted experts to arrive at key principles for effective literacy teaching. This report is part of…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Foreign Countries, Reading Skills
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2015
This protocol guides the review of research that informs the recommendations contained in the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guide, "Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively." The review-specific protocol is used in conjunction with the "WWC Procedures and Standards Handbook (version 3.0)." The practice guide…
Descriptors: School District Wealth, Writing Instruction, Guides, Teaching Methods
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory NWREL, 2005
This module provides paraeducators with awareness of strategies that can be used to help students become better writers. The NWREL 6 + 1 Trait[R] model is offered as an example of an approach that can be used to develop and assess student writing skills and enable paraeducators to assist teachers in the instruction of writing. Paraeducators will…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Skills, Writing Processes, Writing Instruction
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Newbold, H. Steven L. – Social Work, 1980
Describes social work case illustrations as teaching tools and information-sharing techniques. Presents suggestions for writing case illustrations, discussing information to be included (order of presentation, pseudonyms, efforts of other professionals, and practitioner orientation) or excluded (exclusively masculine pronouns, theory exposition,…
Descriptors: Authors, Case Studies, Caseworker Approach, Information Dissemination
Haskell, John F., Ed. – 1977
This compilation of selected articles from the "TESOL Newsletter" is devoted to various practical aspects of teaching English as a second language. The following articles are included: "In a Word...,""The Functional Approach to Language Teaching,""A Challenge to Traditional Teaching of Reading: A Thirty Year-Old Methodology Repudiated,""Tak (Th)em…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Korean, Language Laboratories
Hamayan, Else V. – 1989
Innovative methods and strategies are described for teaching writing to potentially English proficient (PEP) students (also known as "limited English proficient"), who may or may not be literate in their native language, using holistic natural approaches. The approaches are based on the premise that students acquire language (speaking,…
Descriptors: Dialog Journals, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Holistic Approach
Patton, Bob; And Others – 1975
This manual was prepared to guide educators in developing curriculum using performance (behavioral) objectives that include content information. The material is presented in three units: writing a unit of instruction, teaching a unit of instruction, and supplementing a unit of instruction. Each unit contains terminal and specific objectives for…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development
Tate, Gary, Ed. – 1987
Intended for teachers of composition courses, this book provides twelve bibliographic essays covering various aspects of composition studies. The list of essays are as follows: (1) "Recent Developments in Rhetorical Invention" (Richard Young); (2) "Structure and Form in Non-Narrative Prose" (Richard L. Larson); (3)…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Content Area Writing, Discourse Modes, Linguistics
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1992
This loose-leaf compendium includes three types of brief research summaries: "topical synthesis,""close-ups," and "snapshots." The single topical synthesis is entitled "School-Community Collaboration to Improve the Quality of Life for Urban Youth and Their Families" (Kathleen Cotton). Close-ups consist of…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education