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Download full textPlourde, Lynn – 1985
Developed by a speech-language pathologist, this oral language program for students in grades K-2 contains more than 200 field-tested activities designed for whole-class use. Listening and speaking activities are arranged in developmental order and grouped according to the following 12 areas: vocabulary, concepts, listening, giving and following…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Concept Formation, Grammar, Instructional Materials
Bude, Bette L. – 1985
Because junior high school literature anthologies contain few expository offerings and English texts seldom involve students in critical reading as background for writing, it is up to the teacher to fill the gap. One approach for providing students with critical reading practice is the cloze procedure, which (1) encourages close reading and…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Writing, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1985
Intended for reading teachers, this resource book provides a variety of practical suggestions and materials for motivating students to read. Chapter one deals with removing roadblocks to reading, including such things as low expectations, a poor self-concept, lack of self-control, lack of flexibility, and lack of time and of interest. Chapter two…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Language Experience Approach
Berwald, Jean-Pierre – 1986
This volume outlines potential uses of many of the topics associated with daily newspapers, music, film, theater, and sports for vocabulary development and grammar review in French language instruction. The emphasis is on the advantage of using authentic, current materials prepared for the general public but somewhat familiar to students. The…
Descriptors: Advertising, Cartoons, Catalogs, Class Activities
Rodewald, Dave – 1985
A project was undertaken to develop a remedial academic curriculum and materials that would help disadvantaged students gain the basic mathematics skills necessary to succeed in an electronics program. Major activities of the project included development of a bibliography of currently available math resource books with materials appropriate for…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged
Andrews, Jean F.; Mason, Jana M. – 1984
Evidence from a nine-month longitudinal study of deaf children's early attempts at learning to read provides the construct for an instructional model that stresses that even though the children may have, at the least, a meager expressive sign language vocabulary, they can be lead successfully through the holophrastic or one-word stage of reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Deafness, Developmental Stages
Siefer, Nancy; Lenhart, Debra – 1984
This manual is one of four self-contained components of a larger handbook designed to assist secondary and postsecondary instructors and support staff in meeting the needs of limited-English-proficiency (LEP) students in vocational training programs. Together with an accompanying set of vocational English as a second language (VESL) vocabulary…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Computer Literacy, Computers
Holley, John F. – 1985
Visual aids can provide a visual context for the mastery of new terminology, helping to make the abstract appear concrete and introducing new approaches to material that can easily become dull and routine. Visual aids can be easy to make, by the instructor alone or with the help of the class, and they can be designed to illustrate concepts…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Charts, Classroom Techniques, Concept Teaching
Marfurt, Rose Marie A. – 1987
Suggestions are made for the organization of a business German course. It is proposed that course material be divided into chapters, one per week, each containing five sections. The sections include: (1) a broad selection of typical German business letters exemplifying operations in all branches of export and import, followed by a special…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Business Communication, Classroom Techniques, Course Content
Thayer, Yvonne V. – 1988
An outline of the French curriculum used in the Radford, Virginia schools is presented. It consists of outlines of the major and supplementary materials and linguistic content used in each year of the four-year Foreign Language in the Elementary School (FLES) program. A brief introductory section describes the program's origins and instructional…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Cultural Education, Curriculum Design
Campbell, Diana; McCarty, T. L., Ed. – 1983
The guide describes how to use a 9-point system to teach 11 high-interest, low-level novels about Indians and teenagers to students reading at levels 1-8. The nine steps are (1) determine student's instructional reading level, (2) determine level of novels to be read, (3) choose novel at student's instructional reading level, (4) introduce novel,…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Literature, American Indians, Characterization
Waters, William V. – 1988
This paper describes classroom activities developed around constructivist learning theories (that is, students are always learning because they are constantly constructing their own personal meanings and reflecting on them) as they are applied to English as a Second Language and remedial English students in a secondary classroom dominated by…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Differences, Cultural Exchange, English Curriculum
Cole, Richard; Douillard-Cole, Edith – 1983
A guide to second language teaching methods and content is designed for language teachers giving French instruction to Peace Corps volunteers in Morocco. It consists of an introductory section on classroom techniques and 38 instructional units on grammar and vocabulary. Each lesson outlines grammatical and vocabulary material to be presented to…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Course Content, Foreign Countries
Rivera, Loretta Smith – 1985
A curriculum guide for a federally-funded demonstration project in English-as-a-second-language instruction for parents and their high school aged children is presented. The purpose of the program is to promote family participation in the school and community. The guide includes the following sections: descriptions of the project and of the adult…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Check Lists, Classroom Techniques
Small, Robert C., Jr. – 1987
Designed for secondary school English teachers who want to help their students develop enthusiasm for words, their histories, and the way language structures words to produce meaning, this paper offers suggestions for a program of study employing dictionary projects and personal experience. The paper describes making a class dictionary of teen…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Class Activities, Definitions, Dictionaries
