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Nash, Kindel Turner; Arce-Boardman, Alicia; Peele, Roderick D.; Elson, Kerry – Teachers College Press, 2022
Literacy educators are often unequipped to help young children contend with the world we inhabit, where linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism are not always valued or sustained. In fact, educators are routinely bombarded by programs that position literacy as a simple, one-size-fits-all practice. This resource will help pre-K-3 teachers…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Literacy Education, Primary Education, Young Children
Andersson, Theodore – 1981
This book concerns a neglected aspect of the education of bilingual children, namely, their potential desire and ability to learn to read before age 5. The basis of the study is considered in the chapter on children as early learners, which provides accounts of children being taught to read from the age of 6 months to 4 years. The next part of the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Language Processing, Parent Child Relationship
Smith, Carl B. – 1997
This book presents 12 strategies (focusing on one strategy a week) for students to increase vocabulary and boost communication skills, suggesting that these techniques can easily double the average person's vocabulary. After an introduction, the book presents the following 12 techniques: (1) "Expand on What You Know: Synonyms, Antonyms, and…
Descriptors: Affixes, Context Clues, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Geller, Linda Gibson – 1985
The connections among language learning, language education, and children's wordplay are explored in this book. Each chapter examines some aspect of the interrelations between wordplay activities and the goals of language education. The book is divided into three sections, with the first section exploring wordplay and language learning in the…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Elementary Education, Expressive Language, Humor
West, Thomas G. – 1997
This book presents research on how some innovations in computer visualization are making work and education more favorable to visual thinking. The book exposes many popular myths about conventional intelligence through an examination of the role of visual-spatial strengths and verbal weaknesses in the lives of 11 gifted individuals, including…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computers, Creativity, Dyslexia
Renehan, William – 1977
The linguistic abilities demonstrated by second grade students show a high level of competence in the use of syntactic structures and lexicon. This report describes and interprets, in terms of language function, the talking and writing of fifteen Australian children. Transcripts of conversations provide the basis for the linguistic analysis and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Foreign Countries, Grade 2, Language Patterns
Baron, Naomi S. – 1992
This book is designed to provide practical advice to parents and educators on the language acquisition process. Citing numerous case studies and anecdotal examples, it explains how children learn to talk and acquire language. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction to language acquisition, explaining the components, forms, and structure of language.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Early Childhood Education
Macaulay, Ronald – 1980
This book addresses child's language learning in a manner designed to be understandable to the nonspecialist. The major areas covered are: (1) learning one's first language; (2) the role of adults in the child's language learning; (3) discovering the structure of language: phonology; (4) discovering the structure of language: syntax; (5) learning…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Attitudes
Atkinson, Christine – 1983
In all of his published work, Jean Piaget never abandoned his original theoretical framework for the understanding of human development. This framework insists that intelligence is essentially a biological phenomenon; its development is best understood as the development of a sophisticated and highly successful adaptation device. This device…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology
O'Connell, Dorothy, Comp.; And Others – 1972
This research bulletin includes reports of research in progress or recently completed from September 1971 through February 1972. Each entry includes information concerning the investigator, purpose, subjects, methods, duration, cooperating groups, and findings (if available). The reports are listed under several topical headings: (1) Long-Term…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Child Development, Children, Educational Research
Gable, Robert A., Ed.; Warren, Steven F., Ed. – 1993
This collection of papers presents strategies for teaching students with mental retardation. An introduction by Robert A. Gable and Steven F. Warren titled "The Enduring Value of Instructional Research" reviews problems besetting special education instructional research and outlines the papers' approach to the field from both an empirical research…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Communication Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Methods
Benjamin, Ludy T., Jr., Ed. – APA Books, 2008
The most popular activities from APA's successful "Activities Handbooks for the Teaching of Psychology" are gathered together and updated in this book of teachers' favorites. The lesson plans, which encourage active learning and involve the whole class, have stood the test of time and proven themselves to be entertaining, effective, and easy to…
Descriptors: Psychology, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Lesson Plans