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Lincoln, Wanda – Learning, 1993
Presents writing warm-up activities to help elementary students develop and polish their language skills. The warm-up activities focus on detail, descriptive dialog, memory writing, titles, punctuation, and vocabulary enhancement. The activities provide choices, present important ideas, and foster collaboration, responsibility, and trial and error…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Language Skills, Teaching Methods
Lake, Veronica A. – Learning, 1992
Describes one educator's whole-language approach to elementary school reading. Her class activities focus on books and friends during February to help celebrate Valentine's day. Two student pages offer friendship-oriented student activities. (SM)
Descriptors: Activity Units, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning
Bernagozzi, Tom; And Others – Learning, 1992
This activity book includes across-the-curriculum activities with Olympic themes; a "cooperation relay" (four competitive team activities based on a cooperative learning model); highlights of African Americans' Olympic achievements; a poster on teamwork and activities based on the theme of keeping the Olympic torch alive; and a…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Blacks, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning
Hanlin, Jayne Ilene – Learning, 1992
A fifth grade teacher describes how by reading classic literature aloud to her students each day, she helped them along the road to literature-based learning. She discusses the advantages of the whole-language approach. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classical Literature, Intermediate Grades, Literature Appreciation
Learning, 1992
Provides before-, during-, and after-reading strategies to help students develop reading goals, monitor comprehension, and reflect on what they read. A reading wheel and student pages encourage practice of new strategies. Across the curriculum strategies are included for building comprehension in other curriculum areas. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Teaching, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
Cunningham, Patricia M.; Allington, Richard L. – Learning, 1991
Describes how primary teachers can use decoding strategies within a literature-based, whole-language setting. A three-stage approach involves the book stage (real reading), the word stage (learning words), and the letter-sound stage (learning sounds). The article provides sample activities. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Teaching, Decoding (Reading), Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Whitlock, Stella Ward – Learning, 1994
Having students work together to write a historical novel is one way to integrate language arts and social studies. A step-by-step approach to completing such a writing project includes reading to get ready, brainstorming, developing a plot, adding descriptive detail, writing and revising, and final editing and typing. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Teaching, History, Junior High Schools
