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Download full textMichaels, Judith Rowe – 2001
This book argues for a deeper, richer view of vocabulary than the standard images conjured up by that word--worksheets, weekly quizzes, and anxieties about standardized test scores. The book invites teachers and students to experience "the music of words," words in isolation and in juxtapositions, and urges them to bring their own life…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Usage
Peer reviewedHudson, Tate B. – English Journal, 1987
Compares the difficulties students face in the junior high years to the obstacles of Odysseus. Notes hierarchical skill levels needed to understand and interpret literature; suggests using different print and nonprint media to improve interest in stories; recommends doing more writing and talking about fewer works. (JG)
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Language Arts, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction
Abraham, Katherine – 1983
In today's mathematics classroom there is much concern about the students' lack of success. Mathematics teachers can successfully incorporate reading into their classrooms by: (1) promoting in-class reading activities; (2) teaching vocabulary; (3) emphasizing mathematical symbols; and (4) ensuring understanding of mathematical sentences. Reading…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Mathematics Curriculum
Peer reviewedSimpson, Michele L. – Journal of Reading, 1987
Addresses three questions: (1) What is involved in understanding a word or concept? (2) How do we presently measure word knowledge? (3) What are some alternative formats which teachers could utilize with their students? Suggests techniques such as paired word questions, categorizing, analogies, and sentence writing as ways to evaluate vocabulary…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Nontraditional Education
Peer reviewedSchell, Leo M. – Reading Horizons, 1986
Provides methods teachers can use to help remedial readers attack both monosyllabic and multisyllabic words they do not recognize. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Reading Difficulties
Chall, Jeanne S. – 1983
Research has consistently shown that vocabulary knowledge, including both word recognition skills and understanding of word meaning, is highly predictive of achievement in other aspects of reading--oral and silent reading and comprehension. The importance of instruction in word recognition and decoding has been recently demonstrated by the rise in…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Habits
Christopher, Tonja' – 2003
Students can learn a number of words in any given day from television, parents, through reading, and through classroom activities. The activity in this lesson plan focuses on students expanding their written vocabulary to make writing passages more vivid and pleasurable to read. The lesson provides an opportunity for individual and group work, all…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grade 7, Learning Activities, Lesson Plans
