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Harrison, Kelly – Reading Teacher, 2016
What better place for young little minds who are full of energy and eager to soak up as much information as possible than a notebook for them to collect their new learning and thoughts? What is it about notebooks that makes writing and learning fun? I wanted to experience the magical feeling that notebooks create with my students--hence, the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Literacy, Reader Text Relationship, Student Journals
Furby, Lindy; Catlow, Jilly – SAGE Publications Ltd (UK), 2016
"Learning Tracks" is an assessment tool to support the planning and assessment of learning for children and young people with severe and complex learning disabilities (SCLD). It was designed by Lindy Furby and Jilly Catlow while teaching at St Crispin's School for children and young people with severe and complex learning disabilities.…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Learning Disabilities, Young Children
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Pollard-Durodola, Sharolyn D.; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Simmons, Deborah C.; Davis, Matthew J.; Simmons, Leslie; Nava-Walichowski, Miranda – Reading Teacher, 2012
Research shows that children accrue vocabulary knowledge by understanding relationships between new words and their connected concepts. This article describes three research-based principles that preschool teachers can use to design shared book reading lessons that accelerate content vocabulary knowledge by helping young children to talk about…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Vocabulary Development, Early Childhood Education
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Blarney, Katrin L.; Beauchat, Katherine A. – Reading Teacher, 2011
Storybook reading offers an ideal context for teaching young children new words. Text Talk is one method designed for teaching elementary students new words after reading. However, using the Text Talk vocabulary procedures with young children, the authors observed several challenges both for teachers' implementation and children's learning.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Young Children, Vocabulary Development, Emergent Literacy
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Schindler, Andrea – English Teaching Forum, 2006
In this article, the author shares vocabulary development activities for young learners. These activities channel students' energy and make learning more effective and fun. The author stresses the importance of giving young learners a good language-learning experience, and the challenges of teaching young learners who are not literate in their L1.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Learning Activities, Native Language, Teaching Methods
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. Home Economics Curriculum Center. – 1983
This instructor guide is designed for use by postsecondary child development instructors in courses that have both lecture and laboratory sections. The guide is organized into five units covering the following subject matter: foundations and assumptions about child caregiving, development of young children, indirect guidance of children's…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Behavior Modification