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Peer reviewedMarlowe, Mike – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1988
Kinesthetic learning experiences for reinforcing mildly handicapped preschool and elementary students' spelling vocabulary are described. Students make letters of the alphabet with their bodies and then spell words from vocabulary lists. Follow-up spelling activities include scrambled letters; spelling baseball; word families; rhyming; consonant…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Elementary Education, Kinesthetic Methods, Learning Activities
Giordano, Gerard – Academic Therapy, 1987
Kinesthetic exercises which develop reading comprehension skills through action words complement exercises which develop word recognition skills. Action word exercises are often effective because they are multimodal, physical activities. Such exercises may use word lists and pantomime to reinforce recognition and remembrance of words. (CB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Kinesthetic Methods, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedMarlatt, Edward A. – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1995
The Total Physical Response (TPR) method of language instruction is introduced, and guidelines for designing and implementing TPR lessons for students with hearing impairments are provided. In TPR instruction, students develop understanding before speech or signing, understanding is demonstrated through actions, and new vocabulary is developed…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Hearing Impairments
Weisenback, E. Lynne – Academic Therapy, 1988
Strategies are suggested to assist students with reading comprehension difficulties. Strategies include: (1) developing appropriate background through discussion of story concepts, brainstorming, conceptual webbing, and kinesthetic or tactile experiences; (2) asking students to predict what will happen; (3) reciprocal questioning between students…
Descriptors: Background, Brainstorming, Elementary Secondary Education, Imagery
Download full textMarzano, Robert J.; Gaddy, Barbara B.; Dean, Ceri – 2000
This report provides K-12 educators with instructional strategies that research shows have the greatest likelihood of positively affecting student learning. The 12 chapters include: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "Identifying Similarities and Differences (comparing, classifying, creating metaphors, and creating analogies); (3)…
Descriptors: Analogy, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Feedback
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. Div. of Special Education Services. – 1993
This document summarizes the final reports of five Colorado classroom projects funded to promote and evaluate effective instructional techniques for students with learning disabilities. (However, the projects also involved students who were not disabled.) The five projects dealt with: (1) effectiveness of using an edu-kinesthetic whole brain…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement
