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Peer reviewedBass, Jo Ann F. – Rural Educator, 1995
Discusses ways to integrate literature with rural themes into content-area teaching for rural elementary students, including such methods as read-aloud sessions, a classroom reading center, and sustained silent reading. Outlines 10 daily lesson plans integrating textbook and literature in an example of a fourth-grade social studies unit on the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Pastoral Literature, Rural Education
Peer reviewedTownsend, Jinny – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1996
A teacher of elementary deaf students describes the value of using "big books," which allow groups of students to share text and pictures, as an effective learning resource both for deaf students and for older students with learning disabilities. Seventeen big books in such areas as multicultural education, science and industry,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Content Area Reading, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education
Roberts, Patricia L. – 1993
Using a dinosaur unit as an example throughout the chapters, this book presents an organizational plan for developing a thematic unit for literature-based instruction for grades K-6. The book is designed as a resource for preservice and inservice teachers new to literature-based instruction. The book shows how a content topic can be used as a…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Dinosaurs
Direct linkStahl, Katherine A. Dougherty, Ed.; McKenna, Michael C., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2006
This book presents state-of-the-science research on the components of successful literacy learning and how to target them in contemporary classrooms. The volume builds on and extends the work of Steven Stahl, whose pioneering contributions encompassed the key areas of phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and assessment.…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Educational Research, Educational Trends, Teaching Methods
Schirmer, Barbara R. – 1994
This text provides preservice and inservice teachers with comprehensive information regarding how children who are deaf learn to use language in face-to-face communication, reading, and writing. The text presents both practical teaching strategies and the theoretical foundations on which teaching strategies are built. Individual chapters address…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communication Skills, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing
Schirmer, Barbara R. – 2000
This text provides preservice and inservice teachers with comprehensive information regarding how children who are deaf learn to use language in face-to-face communication, reading, and writing. Individual chapters address the following topics: (1) acquisition of linguistic knowledge in the child who is deaf, language goals for classroom…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Communication Skills, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing
