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Ericson, Lita; Juliebo, Moira Fraser – 1998
This handbook offers a practical and comprehensive means of teaching and monitoring children's development of phonological awareness in the classroom. The handbook points out that studies have shown clearly that even informal phonological awareness activities, such as the natural and spontaneous word play found in stories, songs, and games, can…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Kindergarten, Learning Activities
Download full textMiller, Harry B., Comp. – 1995
Prepared by teachers in a summer course, this handbook presents brief descriptions of various aspects of reading instruction and related lesson plans and class activities. Beginning with brief biographies of 5 leaders in reading education (both living and deceased), the handbook consists of sections that discuss reading readiness; word…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Lesson Plans
South Dakota State Div. of Elementary and Secondary Education, Pierre. – 1986
Based on the concept that readiness for reading is brought about by the nurturing of a child's physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth, this guidebook presents reading readiness guidelines and carefully planned workshop activities designed to provide a classroom climate conducive to discovery and language development. The first…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes
Ediger, Marlow – 1988
Intended for elementary school teachers, this article deals with reading readiness, handwriting, listening skills, and linguistics in the elementary school. The reading readiness section discusses utilizing pictures in teaching, using real objects in teaching, making picture dictionaries, placing labels on objects, developing experience charts,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Handwriting
Cunningham, Patricia M.; Allington, Richard L. – Learning, 1991
Describes how primary teachers can use decoding strategies within a literature-based, whole-language setting. A three-stage approach involves the book stage (real reading), the word stage (learning words), and the letter-sound stage (learning sounds). The article provides sample activities. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Teaching, Decoding (Reading), Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Sampson, Delores – Insights into Open Education, 1983
Activities and teaching methods for involving children (especially young children) in literature are presented in order to establish positive attitudes towards reading. Ideas are provided for use with wordless books, patterned or repetitive books, books organized around a theme, and picture books. The activities, each related to specific…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Books, Childrens Literature, Class Activities
McGee, Alice E.; Weinstein, Rachel S. – 1996
This practical guide to teaching reading offers activities to teach reading readiness and mathematics. It also discusses the reasons for reading to children, teaching phonics, and using the basal reader. The section on reading readiness focuses on the importance of such skills, and specific reading readiness skills such as visual discrimination,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Foreign Countries, Learning Activities
Juliebo, Moira F. – 1991
The inclusion of talk, written language, and body language are critically important in primary classrooms. Although reading and writing may be regarded as cognitive activities, they are embedded in a social/cultural milieu, and the practice of mechanical decoding as a necessary precedent to real reading is not pedagogically sound. A whole class…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Emergent Literacy
Choate, Joyce S.; Rakes, Thomas A. – 1989
Part of a series focusing on the classroom needs of special students, this book supplements more comprehensive and theoretical treatments of reading instruction with practical classroom teaching strategies. The book is divided into four parts: (1) "Special Reading Needs of Special Learners," with chapters outlining categories of students, with a…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
McAllister, Elizabeth – 1987
This "kit" consists of 145 activities that teach and reinforce specific pre-reading and beginning reading skills; it has been developed to help the primary grade teacher in recognizing and developing skills that assure each child's continuous reading progress. Part One explains how pre-reading skills are developing reading skills in the…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Educational Games
Pierce, Lorraine Valdez, Ed. – 1987
A guide for teachers of nonliterate and semiliterate secondary school students with limited English proficiency (LEP) focuses on techniques for integrating language arts and social studies instruction. It gives basic information for developing learning activities for students with limited educational experience. This includes suggested objectives…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Class Activities, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language)
Biles, James J.; And Others – 1993
The guide is designed for volunteer tutors of English as a second language (ESL). It consists of two parts: the guide itself, offering principles and methods for ESL instruction, and a report of the guide's development. The guide begins with by outlining basic principles and classroom considerations of ESL tutoring. The second chapter discusses…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Class Activities
