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Geither, Elise; Meeks, Lisa – Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014
When it comes to academic work, students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often have the required knowledge but struggle to get their thoughts down in writing. This is a practical guide to teaching and improving writing skills in students with ASD to meet academic writing standards and prepare for the increased expectations of higher education.…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
Annenberg Media, 2007
This video workshop for elementary school teachers uses classroom footage to demonstrate how a writing workshop approach motivates intermediate students and helps them become proficient and independent writers. Ten teachers from across the country model teaching strategies and share reflections on their practice. Six nationally known experts in…
Descriptors: Videotape Recordings, Teaching Methods, Program Descriptions, Elementary School Teachers
Mascolini, Marcia; Freeman, Caryl P. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1980
Offers four reasons for using the case approach in introductory technical writing courses and a sequence of six cases that can be used. (RL)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Technical Writing, Writing Exercises
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Tompkins, Gail E. – Language Arts, 1980
Offers a method for teaching penmanship whereby the different strokes of a penmanship exercise are used to illustrate the action in a story. Presents some story lines and shows how they may be adapted to imaginative penmanship drills that will hold the children's interest. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Handwriting Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises
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D'Angelo, Frank J. – College Composition and Communication, 1979
Suggests the value to modern students of paraphrasing and describes exercises in paraphrasing. (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition), Writing Exercises
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Kossack, Sharon – Journal of Reading, 1986
Provides activities for teaching the skill of comparison using various parts of newspapers. (SRT)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Integrated Activities, Newspapers, Teaching Methods
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Viera, Carroll – College Composition and Communication, 1986
Presents a simple classroom exercise that transforms a remote future need for grammatical competence into a more practical, immediate, and useful skill. (HTH)
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises
Berry, John – Use of English, 1983
Discusses the use of exercises that help students learn to write poetry. (HOD)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Poetry, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods
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
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English Journal, 1988
Offers seven effective learning activities for the first day of class. (MS)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises
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Bean, John C. – College Composition and Communication, 1986
Proposes that a systematic program of summary writing may be particularly effective tool for helping students overcome egocentrism by requiring them to focus objectively on someone else's ideas. Describes a program of summary assignments that foster dialectic thinking. (HTH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
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Glass, Tom – Exercise Exchange, 1984
Describes a final writing assignment in which students themselves must propose a writing assignment and rationale for future use in the classroom. The assignment forces students to examine what they have learned in the course and gives the teacher some insight into what has not been taught successfully. (HTH)
Descriptors: High Schools, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises
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Brewbaker, James M. – English Journal, 1982
Describes the "Chinese Menu System" of student instructional units based on the ideas of James R. Moffet being used by teachers in the Columbus, Georgia, area in which students select learning activities from categories constructed around a single topic. (JL)
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises
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Coldiron, A. E. B. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1991
Adapts a classical concept to the composition classroom in a prewriting exercise which offers a wide range of benefits. (RS)
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Prewriting, Teaching Methods, Two Year Colleges
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Hatcher, Barbara A.; Chiodo, Beverly A. – Clearing House, 1989
Discusses the historical significance of letters to the editor. Suggests guidelines to teach students the skill of writing letters to the editor as a constructive method of sharing views. Asserts that this kind of letter writing encourages participation in the democratic process. (MS)
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Secondary Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises
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