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Phonics Instruction with a Culturally Responsive Twist: Three Approaches to Transforming Curriculum
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Toppel, Katie – Multicultural Perspectives, 2012
The author realizes that having a scripted curriculum is not a complete roadblock to culturally relevant instruction, yet it introduces the challenge of figuring out how to implement a particular program as required, while incorporating elements that really help connect the lessons to the students' lives. This year she has experimented with…
Descriptors: Phonics, Alphabets, Associative Learning, Reading Instruction
Tips in Reading Instruction.
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Ediger, Marlow – 1996
Some tips can assist teachers in guiding each pupil to achieve more optimally, with respect to the ability to read well and reading comprehension. Among these 10 specific tips are: (1) teach individualized phonics in context; (2) assist the student to read in proper thought units by covering up words in sentences for clarification; (3) assist…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Classroom Techniques, Context Clues, Directed Reading Activity
Games and Puzzles in the Second Language Classroom: A Second Look.
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Danesi, Marcel; Mollica, Anthony – Mosaic: A Journal for Language Teachers, 1994
Revisits puzzleology (the study of puzzles and games in human cultures) in second language teaching to give the teacher an overview of the relevant facts "vis-a-vis" their incorporation into classroom instruction and to provide an elementary typology of puzzleological techniques for the teacher interested in incorporating them in…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes
Enriching Vocabulary = Better Readers, Writers, Speakers, and Listeners. A Resource Book.
Koch, Norman E. – 1986
Stressing language development as the prime component of all learning, this resource book presents suggestions to teachers to aid them in developing children's descriptive language. Basic to the described activities is the concept that vocabulary development is essentially concept development, requires a variety of experiences, and results from…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Choral Speaking, Classroom Techniques, Creative Development
The Relationship between an Oral Rhythmic Style of Communication (Rap Music) and Learning in the Urban Preschool.
Hicks, Patricia Thandi – 1987
A study explored the effectiveness of "rap music" as a method of instruction for urban preschool children. It was hypothesized that urban preschool children would learn more new content (10 unfamiliar names of body parts) in a classroom environment through the use of rap music for instruction, than would children who received instruction…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Blacks, Classroom Techniques, Educational Research
Learning Japanese-English Word Lists with the Bilingual-Dichotic Method.
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Aarons, Louis – 1998
This paper describes the rationale for development of a self-instructional program using the bilingual-dichotic method, which accelerates the learning of foreign words. First, ways of learning vocabulary and the use of bilingual word lists for direct instruction with beginners are noted, and criteria are given for selection of words. Differences…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Classroom Techniques, Contrastive Linguistics