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Peer reviewedSpillers, David; And Others – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1994
At the Arkansas School for the Deaf, high school students use electronic mail to correspond with friends in other places, including those met on electronic bulletin boards. Uses of electronic mail are addressed in the context of whole-language instruction. Specific networks appropriate for children, including KendallNet (linking schools for the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Computer Networks, Deafness, Electronic Mail
Download full textNorth Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Media and Technology Services. – 1991
This annotated bibliography of instructional media in communication skills presents annotations of 112 books and videotapes for students in grades from pre-kindergarten through grade 12, and of 38 books and videos for teachers. The material in the bibliography for students consists mostly of poetry collections published in 1990 and 1991. The…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Annotated Bibliographies, Anthologies, Books
Peer reviewedBrown, Rexford G. – Journal of Basic Writing, 1991
Discusses the concept of a "literacy of thoughtfulness" for all students, characterized by the ability to think critically and creatively, to solve problems, exercise judgment, access, assimilate, and apply information, and communicate effectively with others. Suggests that thoughtfulness is inescapably bound up with culture. (KEH)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Critical Thinking, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Hobson, Eric; Shuman, R. Baird – 1990
Arguing that students should be encouraged frequently to listen, to speak, to read, and to write in all areas of the curriculum and to begin asking the questions that reveal the dependence that exists between various bodies of knowledge, this book is based on the whole-language theory. The book is designed not only to help students learn such…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication Skills, Critical Thinking, High Schools
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
Goodman, Ellen, Comp.; Hevia, Mary, Comp. – 1996
This collection of papers on English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) reading and writing instruction includes: "The Use of the Newspaper in Teaching ESL Students" (Andrea Bittman); "Using a Combination of Life Experience Stories and Other Types of Stories To Teach the Writing Process and Build Self Confidence within the ESL Student" (Kathy Brightman);…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Audiotape Recordings, Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills
