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Peer reviewedGarrison, Roger – English Journal, 1990
Presents an approach used in high school English classes to connect students with the world outside high school. Encourages students to take risks by selecting a project topic, choosing and inviting a guest speaker, preparing for the visit, reading and writing on related topics, and doing a follow-up project. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, English Instruction, High Schools
Peer reviewedBristor, Valerie J. – Reading Horizons, 1994
Offers examples of science reading and writing activities (used in a study of the effects of an integrated curriculum strategy on the achievement, attitudes, and self-confidence of fourth- and fifth-grade students) which integrate the language arts and encourage the development of skills through content-based context instruction. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Elementary Education
Download full textBrand, Alice G. – 1995
A rhetorical analysis procedure assists upper-division students in any academic field to learn how to read, interpret, and evaluate disciplinary arguments, and how to communicate this thoroughly and thoughtfully in a well integrated essay. In a warm-up exercise, the class discusses a representative article, research study, or essay in the…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing
Feathers, Karen M. – 1993
Noting that students often have difficulty reading texts for information, this book offers practical, classroom-tested techniques that focus on content while encouraging students to take control of their own learning by expanding their repertoire of reading strategies. The book defines "infotexts" as the books, textbooks, journals,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Information Sources, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedCulp, Mary Beth; Hoffman, Suzanne – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 1998
Describes a unit in a writing-intensive course on reading in the content areas in which students take a familiar fairy tale and rewrite it in a modern context. Describes the four class sessions, including class activities and writing assignments, noting figurative language, elements of fairy tales, and critical reading, thinking, and writing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking, Fairy Tales
Hoberg, Rosemary; Plante, Donna – Insights into Open Education, 1992
This integrated curricular unit on frogs, developed for the second grade, focuses primarily on integrating reading, writing, and science. The unit discusses introducing students to frogs, predicting results in science, learning about classification in science, reading factual science books, extending the topic into literature and the arts,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Grade 2
Sensenbaugh, Roger – 1992
Designed to tap the rich collection of instructional techniques in the ERIC database, this compilation of lesson plans focuses on reading and writing activities for use in the high school science and math classroom. The 43 lesson plans in this book cover writing about science, reading about science, the vocabulary of science, short scientific…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing
Peer reviewedVan Middendorp, Judy E.; Lee, Sharon – Social Studies, 1994
Contends that historical fiction can generate lively discussions among students about relevant social science concepts and contemporary social problems. Discusses why literature is a preferable alternative to many history and social studies textbooks. Presents a literature-based unit for eighth-grade U.S. history. (CFR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Curriculum Design
Watson, Dorothy J., Ed. – 1987
Intended to provide elementary school language arts teachers with new and interesting teaching activities, this book contains over 100 teacher-tested classroom activities that are based on the whole language approach to learning. Chapters discuss the following: (1) a world of language in use; (2) literature points the way (including themes and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Elementary Education
