This book offers integrated activities in which students explore words and, at the same time, develop their language arts and thinking skills. The book states that this way teachers can pay more attention to word study, without sacrificing other parts of the English curriculum and without resorting to word lists and memorization. In the first…

A good vocabulary is one of the major building blocks for success in reading, and every content area has vocabulary to master. This book offers K-12 classroom teachers proven techniques for effective vocabulary instruction. The learning strategies described in the book will help students develop thinking skills that involve analysis, comparison…

Suggests ways to increase students' vocabulary in a developmental reading program. (TO)

The child's process of learning to read was simulated by teaching adults to associate Chinese characters with spoken words. When the students chose words to be learned, learning was more rapid than when words were selected by the examiner from a basal reader. (Author/JA)

Illustrates techniques of stimulating classroom discussion in language courses through imaginative use of poetry. (RL)

To determine a word's rank order of difficulty, the 63 words most commonly used in beginning reading were taught to 108 kindergarten children using one of three methods: phonic, kinesthetic, or meaningful context. (ST)

Discusses the low reading levels of high school students and suggests that students need more reading instruction in the content areas. (RB)

Support for this research provided through a Senior Lectureship in English and Linguistics from the Fulbright Commission in Japan. (VM)

Originally a talk delivered to the Catholic Library Association (New Orleans, 1969). A Newbery Award-winning author describes her efforts to use the language of children's culture and to expand the perimeters of their language through her writing. (Editor/JS)