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Download full textEdiger, Marlow – 1999
Social Studies teachers need to emphasize reading instruction across the curriculum; they can consider 11 selected methods to assist pupil progress in reading social studies content. Recommendations include introducing new words from the reading; initiating peer reading and tutoring; having an aid read orally; tape recording the selection to be…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Elementary Education
Ediger, Marlow – 1993
A sixth-grade student teacher developed and implemented a unit on creative writing, and one lesson in the unit on writing legends was particularly successful. A discussion of Davy Crockett and the legends surrounding his life, began the lesson. The student teacher then introduced trade books from the library station for the pupils to read.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
