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Carballo Picazo, Alfredo – Yelmo, 1973
Part of a continuing series. (SK)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Language Enrichment
Mininni, Giuseppe – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1986
Urges educators to utilize metaphors in language instruction. Two experiments support this position. The results of the first experiment reveal that students learn lexical items more efficiently if presented in metaphors. The results of the second experiment indicate the usefulness of metaphors in developing students' critical thinking. (CFM)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Language Enrichment

Tompkins, Gail E.; Tway, Eileen – Childhood Education, 1985
Provides an annotated book list for use by elementary school teachers. Emphasizes children's involvement in word play and word games as a means to strengthen the language arts program. Specific areas covered include word play and word games, riddles, jokes, rhymes and verse, sounds and words, and word histories. (DST)
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Games, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education
Foy, William C. – 1973
Educational games can make the English classroom a giant playground for natural language opportunities. Some of the games include (1) the use of the animate-inanimate switch for a unit on the language of advertising, where the students use two decks of word cards (one for nouns and the other for adjectives), the purpose being to match the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Elementary Education, English Instruction

Dias, Patrick – English Quarterly, 1978
Considers language growth of secondary school students in terms of their using language to organize real experiences, their awareness of audience, and their ability to manage language for specific purposes and situations. Provides anecdotes of classroom conditions that promoted such student language growth. (RL)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Language Enrichment, Language Skills

Pelligrini, Anthony D.; And Others – Language Arts, 1983
Shows how children's use of explicit oral language is related to success in learning to read and writing. Outlines a technique to teach the use of explicit language through dramatic play. (HTH)
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Arts
Le Storti, Anthony J.; And Others – 1980
The unit on language is designed for presentation to middle school, junior high, and senior high gifted students. Information on objectives, materials, and presentation guidelines is presented for eight lessons on the following topics: purposes and process of language, successful/unsuccessful communication, precise/imprecise communication,…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Creativity, Gifted, High Schools
Drdek, Richard E. – English Record, 1970
After experimenting extensively with a large assortment of classroom aids, e.g., blocks and rhythm instruments to stimulate the oral expression of preschool children, it was found that far less language expression resulted than had been anticipated. When those experiments which had been mildly successful were evaluated, it was decided that young…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Language Enrichment
Stewig, John Warren – 1979
Reading teachers should choose activities and experiences for the classroom that are central to reading. Although a sense of security surrounds the teaching of testable finite reading skills, it is necessary to choose language arts experiences that are not so readily evaluated but still are basic to reading. Listening instruction can facilitate…
Descriptors: Dramatics, Editing, Elementary Education, Kinesthetic Methods
Reid, Neil – 1978
To remedy the lack of well-planned developmental listening programs and adequate listening instruction in New Zealand schools, the New Zealand Council for Educational Research has produced this research-based teacher guide. The following materials are included: objectives for the reading program, including seven characteristics of a good listener;…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts, Language Enrichment, Language Instruction
Wright, Andrew; And Others – 1984
To help students practice and manipulate a newly learned language, games that help the teacher create contexts in which the language is useful and meaningful are presented in this book. The introduction provides answers to questions teachers may have--including why and for whom games are useful--and also offers practical pointers for explaining…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Enrichment, Educational Games, Language Acquisition
VAN ALLEN, ROACH – 1967
A LANGUAGE-EXPERIENCE PROGRAM INCLUDING SPELLING, LISTENING, READING, WRITING, AND SPEAKING IS DISCUSSED. THE TEACHER HELPS EACH CHILD BECOME INCREASINGLY SENSITIVE TO HIS ENVIRONMENT AND SUCCEED THROUGH A VARIETY OF LANGUAGE EXPERIENCES. TWENTY LANGUAGE EXPERIENCES ARE GROUPED INTO THREE CATEGORIES TO AID THE TEACHER IN SELECTING APPROPRIATE…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Integrated Activities, Language Arts, Language Enrichment
Biestman, Margot – 1970
The activities described in this publication are based on a language experience approach that involves primary grade children in progressions from experience to art, writing, and reading. The first and longest section presents a model lesson plan for activities in which children fantasize about being balloons and then progress to related movement,…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Art Activities, Classroom Communication, Imagination

Mallan, Kerry – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 1996
Describes Storytelling and Rural Areas (SARA) program for children and families at Longreach School of Distance Education (Central Queensland). SARA promotes children's oral language skills, self-confidence, and social construction. Explores ways storytelling assists this development. Notes how SARA provides links between home and school and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Distance Education, Family School Relationship, Foreign Countries
Montebello Unified School District, CA. – 1973
This yearbook describes the program undertaken by the Montebello, California Unified School District to assist children's development in the area of language arts by giving them the opportunity to use cameras to record their visual experience and by then using the resulting pictures, slides and films as the basis of language arts experiences. It…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Films
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