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Vivian, Diane M. – Insights into Open Education, 1990
"Think Big" is a thematic literary unit, using literature about elephants in a holistic way and attempting to cross the curriculum into the content areas of science and math. It is a way of expanding the basal reading series and providing appropriate and supportive instruction in a cooperative, more interactive learning environment. To…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedMcGuire, Margit E.; Noe, Katherine L. Schlick – International Journal of Social Education, 1993
Asserts that social studies is an integrated field of study that calls for organizing the curriculum in a holistic manner. Maintains that the whole-language movement, which involves thinking about reading and writing as integrated, reciprocal processes, forms a natural partnership with social studies instruction. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cooperative Learning, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
