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Pribadi, Benny Agus; Susilana, Rudi – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The study is intended to expose mind mapping used as strategy for learning which is able to assist students to write their writing assignments. Thirty students who registered in the Teacher Qualification Improvement Program of Universitas Terbuka (UT) was involved as the participants in this present study. The participants had to follow the…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Strategies
Bushnell, Adam, Ed.; Gill, Angela, Ed.; Waugh, David, Ed.; Smith, Rob, Ed. – SAGE Publications Ltd (UK), 2020
How do teachers identify the potential for greater depth writing and encourage children to meet their full potential? This book was created by people who are not only passionate about primary education, but who are also leading experts in their own particular areas. They have made use of their wide experience to offer practical guidance on greater…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Writing (Composition), Writing Teachers
Richardson, Hannah – Online Submission, 2017
This research explores solutions and challenges pertaining to a child's development of self-efficacy. After working with fifth grade students in a public education setting, Inoticed an increased reliance on teachers for both creative and procedural directions. This paper explores research of educators who examine the internal and external factors…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Self Management, Grade 5, Check Lists
Franco, Mary; Unrath, Kathleen – Art Education, 2014
This article demonstrates how Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) art discussions and subsequent, inspired artmaking can help reach the goals of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects (CCSS-ELA). The authors describe how this was achieved in a remedial…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Thinking Skills, Visual Arts, Classroom Techniques
Hotchkiss, Kristie; Hougen, Marty – Social Studies, 2012
Literacy skills taught in the elementary grades establish a good foundation but are not adequate for the demands of secondary content curriculum. In history, preservice teachers must be prepared with a solid content base along with the pedagogy for teaching that content. To better teach and enhance student writing, preservice teachers need to…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Elementary Education, Content Area Reading, History
Balgopal, Meena M.; Wallace, Alison M.; Dahlberg, Steven – Environmental Education Research, 2012
Being an ecologically literate citizen involves making decisions that are based on ecological knowledge and accepting responsibility for personal actions. Using writing-to-learn activities in college science courses, we asked students to consider personal dilemmas that they or others might have in response to how human choices can impact coastal…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Undergraduate Students, Elementary Education, American Indian Studies

Gitelman, Honre Frank – Reading Horizons, 1990
Describes several writing activities in a writing program for fourth and fifth grade students using stimuli from the media. Notes that each theme was designed to increase students' ability to create original compositions from familiar material (such as advertisements and magazine photographs) using persuasive, narrative, or descriptive techniques.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Mass Media, Teaching Methods
Piper, Judy – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Provides specific writing activities to be used with seven different books in the context of both primary and intermediate grade level writing instruction. (HB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, English Curriculum, Higher Education
Barnett, Catherine – Teachers & Writers, 2002
Interviews Nancy Larson. Notes that in 1976, Nancy Larson joined the staff of the Teachers and Writers Collaborative and later became its director. Discusses in this interview insights gained from teaching and reflections on educational trends, writing movements, and visionary teachers. (PM)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Trends, Elementary Education, Interviews

Downing, Shannon O'Hearn – Language Arts, 1995
Describes working with multiage elementary school students on demand writing--writing to meet deadlines. Discusses why to teach it, practical applications, what teachers need to know before beginning instruction, getting started, introducing demand writing, modeling it, teaching beginnings and endings, and revising and editing/proofreading. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Editing, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods
Olness, Rebecca – International Reading Association (NJ3), 2005
Learn how to use literature to teach students the six traits that characterize effective writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. This practical text gives the reader a variety of ideas and strategies for developing and integrating the traits into students? writing, bibliographies of recommended…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction

Barry, Margaret; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1993
Discusses five classroom teaching methods: (1) creating audio-visual picture book presentations; (2) using written retellings of fables to teach dialogue; (3) writing letters; (4) planning a year-end "read-in"; and (5) turning story maps into game boards. (RS)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Folk Culture, Letters (Correspondence), Literature Appreciation
Gilliver, John – Use of English, 1990
Argues that, as the world becomes increasingly less human and more technocratic, staying in contact with whatever is humane requires conscious effort. Suggests the use of poetry writing assignments as a means of preserving children's inventiveness and imagination. Provides examples of poems written by schoolchildren. (SG)
Descriptors: Creative Development, Elementary Education, Humanistic Education, Humanization

Dever, Christine T.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1992
Offers four practical ideas for classroom use within the field of literacy education: (1) "Press Conference: A Strategy for Integrating Reading with Writing"; (2) "Expressing Ethnic Identity through Brown-Bag Big Books"; (3) "Beanstalk Heroes: Jack and Jim in an Integrated Primary Curriculum"; and (4) "Reading the World around Us." (PRA)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Ethnicity, Folk Culture
Ediger, 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