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Page, Mary; And Others – 1989
Designed to encourage students to discover that grammar merely represents the patterns that exist in language, this book presents lessons on 19 grammar points: nouns; pronouns; verbs; subjects; capitalization; end punctuation; commas; sentence fragments; run-on sentences; contractions; possessives; quotation marks; adjectives; adverbs;…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grammar, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedHipple, Theodore W.; And Others – English Journal, 1983
Suggests several short, manageable activities for teaching writing, such as writing cereal box copy, characterizations, test items, and obituaries. (JL)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Nontraditional Education, Secondary Education, Writing Exercises
Peer reviewedMichel, Elinor – English Journal, 1982
Offers a writing exercise, based on a comic-strip theme, that teachers can use to relieve tensions between them and their students while developing students' expressive writing skills. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Usage
Peer reviewedPeterman, Gina D. – Exercise Exchange, 1985
Describes a writing exercise and discussion to help students broaden their concept of what constitutes comedy so that they may better appreciate Moliere's "The Misanthrope." (HTH)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Comedy, Drama, English Instruction
Jaeger, Lowell – La Confluencia, 1978
Just as spoken language is intended to be heard by an audience, written language aims to be read by an audience. In helping kids learn to write, teachers have ignored this crucial fact. The article discusses how a high school English teacher on the Navajo Indian Reservation got the students to do poetry and other creative writing. (Author/NQ)
Descriptors: American Indians, Creative Writing, English Instruction, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedClark, John R. – Exercise Exchange, 1985
Suggests using poetry's short short forms for a methodical and rapid series of writing assignments that emphasize both careful writing at the sentence level and overall planning and respect for form. (HTH)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English Instruction, Poetry, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedMay, Mary Jo – English Journal, 1986
Lists writing exercises based on observations students can make in a shopping mall. Notes that the exercises are intended to become a springboard for study, description, conjecture, evidence, example, and innovation, and can be combined, expanded, or shortened. (EL)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, English Instruction, Integrated Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach
Peer reviewedDietrich, Julia C. – Exercise Exchange, 1978
Presents a method for helping students learn to evaluate data, draw conclusions, and state a most probable hypothesis in writing essays. (TJ)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Essays, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedHipple, Ted – English Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Assignments, English Instruction, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Peer reviewedOnion, Margaret K. – Exercise Exchange, 1975
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Peer reviewedWilliams, Melvin G. – Exercise Exchange, 1975
Discusses the researched article as an alternative to the research paper and provides guidelines for students to follow in writing a query letter which sells the idea for the article. (RB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Higher Education, Letters (Correspondence)
Peer reviewedHicks, Joyce – Exercise Exchange, 1978
Suggests a method for helping students learn to revise their papers by carrying out a series of assigned tasks either individually or in groups. (TJ)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedThompson, William R. – Clearing House, 1985
Describes a writing assignment that leads students to see the complexities of cause and effect relationships by having them analyze a complicated court case and decide who is right and who is wrong in the case. (FL)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Decision Making Skills, English Instruction, Secondary Education
Huband, David – Use of English, 1987
Notes how important it is that any critical writing assignments should take into account the individual reading, and that the teacher's role is to steer discussion that stems from a class of individual readings. Explores some of the aspects of Jane Austen's novel "Emma" to which students readily respond. (HTH)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation, Novels
Peer reviewedMadden, Thomas R. – Exercise Exchange, 1985
Suggests having students write short summaries using the principles of the journalistic news "lead" to help them sharpen their abstraction skills. Includes samples of data blocks from which students would compose their summaries, kernel sentences from the samples, "kernel" kernel sentences, first draft summaries, and 30-word…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, English Instruction, High Schools, Higher Education
