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The Feeling Words Curriculum: The Missing Link.
Maurer, Marvin – 1982
The Feeling Words Curriculum, a curriculum that integrates the cognitive and affective domains in one course of study, is described in this paper. The opening sections explain how "feeling words," key vocabulary terms, are used to provide the missing link from one person's life to another's. Stressing the importance of helping students…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Secondary Education, Holistic Approach
Writing as Self-Discovery: Grapple and Grow with Personal Fear.
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Murdock, Evelyn – Exercise Exchange, 1987
Presents three activities designed motivate student journal writing as a way to help students confront personal fears and open dialogue between troubled students and teachers. (HTH)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Junior High Schools, Self Esteem, Student Attitudes
Summarizing Text: Developmental Students Demonstrate a Successful Method.
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Selinger, Barry M. – Journal of Developmental Education, 1995
Describes a study of the effectiveness of using a content analysis-based approach for teaching developmental students to summarize texts. Indicates that developmental students can be taught to understand top-level structure and use this knowledge when constructing summaries. Suggests that students can be taught in cost-effective, group situations.…
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Studies Programs, Instructional Effectiveness, Remedial Instruction
Developing the Inferential Reasoning of Basic Writers.
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Zeller, Robert – College Composition and Communication, 1987
Describes an assignment sequence using photographs to introduce developmental students to conventions of academic inquiry, and to give them practice analyzing and synthesizing. Reports that students link details observed in the photos to inferences drawn about them. Concentrates on the assignment linking a photo of E. B. White with an essay by him…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Higher Education
Writing for the Inexperienced Writer: Fluency Shape Correctness. Curriculum Publication No. 9.
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Griffith, Marlene – 1979
This booklet is one of a series of teacher-written curriculum publications launched by the Bay Area Writing Project, each focusing on a different aspect of the teaching of composition. After a brief introduction in which the writing concepts of fluency, shape, and correctness are defined, the rest of the booklet presents the work of three…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Higher Education, Self Actualization, Student Development
The Use of Literary Letters with Post-Secondary Non-Native Students.
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Bauer, Laura; Sweeney, Linda – Learning Assistance Review, 1999
Examines the methodology of using novel reading and letter exchange based upon the novels to enhance reading/writing skills in non-native speakers at the college freshmen level. In addition, it refers to theories on which such methodology is based and offers samples from student work. Contains 17 references. (VWC)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, College Freshmen, Dialog Journals, English (Second Language)
Practical Applications of Language Learning Theory in the Middle School and Junior High.
Anderson, Philip M. – 1982
The middle school and junior high school years are extremely important ones in the language, cognitive, and personal development of students. During this time, students should begin using longer sentences with more sophisticated embeddings and showing greater awareness of audience and organization in writing, speaking, listening, and reading. At…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English Instruction, Junior High Schools, Language Acquisition