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Direct linkConcannon-Gibney, Tara – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018
Teaching and learning literacy in the early years can be a joyful, explorative and meaningful experience. This accessible book will give teachers and practitioners the practical and theoretical skills and knowledge they require to successfully and confidently teach reading, writing and oral skills in the early years classroom. Foregrounding the…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Language Skills
Download full textKosanovich, Marcia; Phillips, Beth; Willis, Karli – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2020
"Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy" was developed to support preschool teachers through collaborative learning experiences in a literacy professional learning community (PLC). PLCs are a form of professional development in which small groups of educators with shared interests work together with the goals of expanding…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education, Communities of Practice
Andres, Susan; Pine, Felicity – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2012
In nine cohesive chapters, "Success in School" covers the essential skills and strategies that are prerequisites to student success: how to promote a positive attitude, how to organize a work space, how to manage time, how to heighten reading comprehension, how to take notes, how to study for exams, how to approach and complete writing…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Reading Comprehension, Reference Materials, Language Skills
Schwieter, John W., Ed.; Benati, Alessandro, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2019
Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting-edge work on second language learning, this "Handbook," written by a team of leading experts, surveys the nature of second language learning and its implications for teaching. Prominent theories and methods from linguistics, psycholinguistics, processing-based, and cognitive approaches are…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Theories
Verma, Manindra K. – 1978
These tape lessons follow the sequence of the intermediate Nepali Reader. There are 12 lessons each containing various types of exercises designed to increase listening, speaking, and reading skills. Each lesson contains the following types of exercises: (1) listening comprehension; (2) question answering; (3) repetition; and (4) multiple choice…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Instructional Materials, Listening Comprehension, Nepali
Peer reviewedWright, Benjamin D. – Popular Measurement, 2000
This class handout lists the three "Cs" that must be measured: (1) construct; (2) conversation; and (3) comprehension. Some suggestions are given for measuring each of these aspects of a subject. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Instructional Materials, Measurement Techniques, Psychometrics
Scaglione, Joanne; Small, Gail – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006
Life's Little Lessons is a delightful and humorous story about a caterpillar named Cyrano and his misadventures. In school he struggles, at times he gives up, until one day he discovers that he and only he is in charge of his own happiness. Children, will easily identify with Cyrano, his feelings and his flight, as they learn that although life…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Young Children, Childrens Literature, Reading Motivation
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1976
The last of 20 volumes of lessons designed for use in a full-time, intensive training program in Arabic is presented. The 128 lessons in this volume contain various types of comprehension drills. Lessons 14-128 are completely in Arabic. (AMH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Arabic, Audiolingual Methods, Intensive Language Courses
Almaraz, Felix D., Jr.; Almaraz, Maria O. – 1977
Short biographical sketches and drawings of 30 prominent Mexican Americans are presented in this book of reading exercises. Written on a fourth or fifth grade level, the book includes figures representing a variety of occupations and fields of achievement: the arts, sports, business, journalism, education, entertainment, literature, medicine, law,…
Descriptors: Artists, Athletes, Biographies, Comprehension
Peer reviewedPiore, Nancy Kline – Social Education, 1987
Describes a reading and writing activity for senior high school students which involves "explicating" a textbook passage. It maintains that the assignment puts an end to superficial reading habits. (JDH)
Descriptors: Assignments, Content Area Reading, High Schools, Reading Comprehension
Block, Cheryl – 2001
Noting that students who learn strategies to make and complete analogies benefit in many ways, the introduction to this workbook for grades three through five defines analogies as comparisons between seemingly unrelated items. It notes that comparing an unfamiliar item to an item that is more familiar increases understanding. In addition, the…
Descriptors: Analogy, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Reading Comprehension
Block, Cheryl – 2001
Noting that students who learn strategies to make and complete analogies benefit in many ways, the introduction to this workbook for grades six through eight defines analogies as comparisons between seemingly unrelated items. It notes that comparing an unfamiliar item to an item that is more familiar increases understanding. In addition, the…
Descriptors: Analogy, Learning Activities, Middle Schools, Reading Comprehension
Cicchetti, George – 1990
These two manuals, one designed for students and the other for instructors, offer information on the development of reading, listening, and study strategies. The student manual begins with information on the instructional approach that will be used and the characteristics of active readers, writers, planners, listeners, and students. The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Community Colleges, Learning Modules, Learning Strategies
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. – 1989
Intended to be used as an assessment instrument in conjunction with North Carolina's Basic Education Program, this communication skills notebook reflects an instructional program that is developmentally appropriate for first and second graders. The notebook contains resource materials which include strategies for teachers to use in evaluating…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Evaluation Criteria, Grade 1, Grade 2
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1966
The first of 10 volumes of a basic course in Persian is presented that is designed for use in the Defense Language Institute's intensive programs. The course, employing the audiolingual methodology, is designed to train native English speakers to level three proficiency in comprehension and speaking and level two proficiency in reading and writing…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Language), Grammar
