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| Reading Teacher | 5 |
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| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 5 |
| Journal Articles | 5 |
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| Practitioners | 5 |
| Teachers | 4 |
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Peer reviewedCunningham, Pat – Reading Teacher, 1980
Discusses techniques for teaching meaning vocabulary and describes the advantages of one commercially produced vocabulary program. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development
Peer reviewedBlachowicz, Camille L. – Reading Teacher, 1985
Extracts guidelines from research for incorporating vocabulary instruction into the everyday routines of the classroom. (EL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Reading Skills
Peer reviewedKinney, Martha A. – Reading Teacher, 1985
Shows how the language experience approach is a useful tool in teaching expository prose structure to elementary school students. (EL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Experience Approach, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedJohnson, Dale D.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1986
Describes semantic mapping, an effective strategy for vocabulary instruction that involves the categorical structuring of information in graphic form and requires students to relate new words to their own experience and prior knowledge. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Learning Strategies, Prior Learning
Peer reviewedHowell, Helen – Reading Teacher, 1987
Outlines diverse strategies (contextual clues, palindromes, figurative language/idioms, etc.) for increasing vocabulary skills of gifted readers in the lower primary grades, using children's literature to supplement good tradebooks. (NKA)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Associative Learning, Childrens Literature, Context Clues
