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Direct linkBlasingame, James, Jr.; Nilsen, Alleen Pace – English Journal, 2005
A lesson focusing on the names of muscles but relating them to more common words is presented, as current research suggests that the best way to teach vocabulary is to group related words. Students create visual representations of word groups and teach the words to the class.
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Visual Learning, Associative Learning
Meeker, Michael W. – 1983
Adapting strategies of invention from the new process-oriented rhetoric, the literature teacher can help students understand what they read through prereading exercises. Presenting students with an abstract model of a text's metaphoric structure, the teacher can spark students' immediate and imaginative response to the model, involving them…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Diagrams, Discovery Processes, English Instruction
