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Kate Sjostrom – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2025
In the English classroom, narrative writing is often separated from the work of reading literature or used merely to coax reluctant students into discussing textually relevant topics. This article discusses a close writing activity, Image Explosion, that engages students in narrative writing that brings attention to the smallest details of…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Writing Instruction, Language Arts, Teaching Methods
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Enid Marie Rosario-Ramos – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to draw on the analysis of instruction and student work in an English Language Arts classroom to discuss how teachers may support dispossessed students' journeys toward radical healing (Ginwright, 2010) by using critically caring pedagogies -- pedagogies grounded in teachers' deep understanding of the systemic inequalities…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Teaching Methods, Teacher Student Relationship, Caring
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Teng, Allen – Voices from the Middle, 2012
A middle school language arts teacher reflects on his experience in utilizing a school-housed online social network to create avenues for authentic audience, purpose, and response to student writing. With many technology proponents advocating a 21st century education, the fact that interacting with the Web 2.0 environment is essentially a reading…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Writing Exercises, Writing Teachers, Educational Technology
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Bridge, Connie A.; Hiebert, Elfrieda H. – Elementary School Journal, 1985
Examined the number and types of classroom writing experiences in which elementary teachers and children in grades one, three, and five were engaged. Two major influences on instructional practices also were analyzed: teachers' perceptions of writing instruction and textbook guidelines. (DST)
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Teaching Methods
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Blake, Howard; Spennato, Nicholas A. – Language Arts, 1980
Describes a "directed writing activity" that teachers can use in developing writing sessions that consistently produce good results. Outlines six steps in the writing activity: prewriting, framing the writing assignment, writing the assignment, revising the draft, editing, and writing the final draft. (AEA)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Arts, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
Turner, Thomas N. – Teacher, 1979
The four mini-centers described here give a sampling of themes and activities for small classroom learning centers on writing. Short descriptions are also included of 20 other possible themes to interest students in writing activities. (SJL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Arts, Learning Activities, Learning Centers (Classroom)
Robinson, Sandra R. – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1989
Describes the teaching approach and materials in "Origins," a book about word origins and how to teach them to elementary students. Notes that this book includes step-by-step activities, a brief history of the English language, relevant poetry examples, and several writing ideas. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Oral Language
Turner, Thomas N. – Teacher, 1980
This article presents 16 language arts and writing activities based on secret codes and mystery stories designed to intrigue and motivate students. (SJL)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Learning Activities
Hillman, Judith – 1980
Intended for elementary school language arts and reading teachers, this paper presents classroom activities using poetry to encourage divergent thinking and to give children the chance to play with language and to practice English language conventions in order to be effective readers and writers. The 12 activities are (1) combining poetry and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Divergent Thinking, Elementary Education, Language Arts
Uries, Ethel; And Others – 1979
This manual was developed to aid in the systematic diagnosis of reading needs and the application of prescriptive strategies (or "prescriptions") to meet those needs among students in grades 2-12. The prescriptions can be used within reading, language arts or language instruction periods. Their foci include reading readiness and motivation, phonic…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts
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Gribbin, William – English Journal, 1985
Presents an assignment in which students are instructed to produce a complete, accurate, and readable collection of rules and sentences that illustrates the multiple uses of each mark of punctuation, in other words, to write their own workbooks. (EL)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Junior High Schools, Language Arts, Learning Activities
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Milz, Vera E. – Theory into Practice, 1980
Among the various methods used by a classroom teacher to encourage writing in her first grade class are letter writing, writing a book, writing notes to each other, and keeping journals. The desire to communicate is the primary motivating factor in the development of both oral and written language. (JN)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Language Skills, Language Styles
Melvin, Mary P. – 1983
Sentence combining can act as a corrective for the large number of language arts lessons and activities that emphasize errors. Based on familiar sentence patterns, sentence combining provides models of effective language use and encourages students to examine and try more expressive and interesting styles of speaking and writing. Sentence…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Education, English Curriculum, Language Arts
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Brosnahan, Irene; And Others – English Quarterly, 1987
Describes the development of an assignment designed to take the place of the standard research paper. The new assignment is of particular relevance to teacher education, especially in English and language arts. (AEW)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English Instruction, English Teacher Education, Higher Education
Rucker, Gary H. – 1977
Intended for teachers of elementary and secondary school writing, this paper describes the Regular Writing Practice (RWP) program, which combines the philosophical and pedagogical bases of Lyman Hunt's Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading program with the instructional methodology of creative writing and composition. The first portion of the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Language Arts, Program Content
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