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Peer reviewedPritchard, Ruie J. – English Journal, 1978
Urges teachers to sometimes reverse the order in which they present units on literature. (DD)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Literature, Literature Appreciation, Secondary Education
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1983
Developed to assist teachers of communication arts in the high school PREP (Preparation for Raising Educational Performance) summer classes, the 30 75-minute lessons in this first of two handbooks are designed to help ninth graders operating with below grade level reading skills (around the 5th-7th grade level) improve their reading comprehension.…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, English Instruction, Grade 9, Language Skills
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1983
Developed to assist teachers of communication arts in the high school PREP (Preparation for Raising Education Performance) summer classes, the 30 75-minute lessons in this second of two handbooks are designed to help ninth graders operating with below grade level reading skills (around the 3rd-5th grade level) improve their reading comprehension.…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, English Instruction, Grade 9, Language Skills
Download full textSquire, James R., Ed. – 1968
The encouragement and formulation of a student's imaginative response to and "engagement" with literature and the concerns of the papers and summaries of discussions in this Dartmouth Seminar report. James Britton discusses refining the student's natural response to literature by developing his increased sense of form ("principally…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Figurative Language
Peer reviewedLawson, Anton E.; Kral, Elmer A. – Educational Forum, 1985
This article presents 10 practical teaching procedures to encourage students to develop formal reasoning skills. A twelfth-grade English course is used as an example. Procedures include pretesting, sequencing instruction, providing students with concrete experiences, discussing reasoning patterns and forms of argumentation, assigning argumentative…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Debate
