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Garner, Ruth; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1984
To investigate the order in which the components of the text-lookback strategy are acquired, 100 fifth-grade students were asked to tutor younger readers. The order of acquisition was as follows: undifferentiated rereading, text sampling, question differentiation, and text manipulation. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Models, Peer Teaching

Baru, Ellen – Language Arts, 1985
Discusses student responses to and interactions with a professional children's writer who visited a fifth grade writing workshop. Describes the emerging confidence as writers of the children and the classroom teacher as a result of the author's visits. (HTH)
Descriptors: Authors, Childrens Literature, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades

Carney, John J.; And Others – Social Education, 1984
Preteaching vocabulary terms to fifth-grade students was found to have a significant facilitative effect on their acquisition and retention of social studies content. An instructional sequence for teachers to follow in preteaching concept vocabulary is outlined. (RM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Research, Grade 5, Interdisciplinary Approach

Tidhar, Chava E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1984
Eighty-seven fifth graders in Israel were randomly assigned to four different filmmaking courses, covering photography only, scenario design and photography, editing and photography, or all three activities. Filmmaking had a significant effect on the cultivation of eight mental skills. The editing activity cultivated four logical inference skills.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Film Production, Foreign Countries

Harty, Harold; Beall, Dwight – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1984
Investigated whether differences existed between gifted (N=25) and nongifted (N=25) fifth graders and between the sexes and related subgroups with respect to attitudes toward science. Although results indicated that gifted students had more positive attitudes than nongifted students and boys had more positive attitudes than girls, the findings…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Gifted, Grade 5
Kough, Bill – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1984
Describes a computer graphics course for children in grades four and five. Presents six projects relating computer graphics with more traditional art activities. (MM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Creative Activities
Boilon, Susan – 2001
Since the early 1600s, millions of people have came to the United States from all over the world. At that time, Native American Indians inhabited the land, but they too had come from elsewhere 30,000 years earlier. Why did they come and what was their arrival like? "Your Acting Company" (the class) has been selected to present a play at…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Cultural Pluralism, Grade 5, Immigrants
Coiner, John M. – 1995
A study investigated the source of teacher frustration concerning their students' spelling abilities and whether or not word study increases retention as opposed to a traditional approach to spelling instruction. Subjects, 16 fifth-grade students at a public school in a suburban area of central Virginia, were formed into groups based on…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 5, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
Peet, Howard – 2001
The Level 5 activity book is designed to help children learn that writing messages and stories will help them see the value of learning to spell. The workbook's program is based on the ideas that accurate spelling contributes to the clarity of written messages; spelling accuracy shows attention to detail, sending a positive message to teachers and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Grade 5, Independent Study, Intermediate Grades
Robins, Andrew; Russ, Sandra – 2000
The construct of parental support has been defined and measured from a variety of perspectives with little consistency across studies. The present study investigates the relationships among parents' self-reports, children's perceptions, and observers' ratings of parental support in order to assess the validity of each perspective. In addition, the…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Children, Construct Validity, Empathy
Chase-Lockwood, Rebekah; Masino, Misty – 2002
This report describes a program for improving students' spelling skills through the use of effective teaching strategies. Because the literature review of solutions named these categories: using various instructional strategies, moving away from simple memorization, and supporting students with freedom to take risks in spelling, these researchers…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Techniques, Grade 5, Instructional Effectiveness
Boilon, Susan – 1997
Designed for small group instruction, this fifth-grade classroom activity deals with the creation of a special edition newspaper commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The activity contains five roles for students (historian, journalist, cartographer/illustrator, biographer, scientist), and each group is to produce…
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Geography, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Burns, Marilyn – 1999
It is not complex to teach the algorithm for multiplying fractions so that children can multiply numerators and denominators to arrive at correct answers. However, it is a challenge to teach so that students build understanding of multiplication of fractions, extending what they have already learned about fractions and about multiplication of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Fractions, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Kunes, Shirley; Gilman, David – 1999
A study examined whether allowing students to make choices in their reading program significantly increased their self concepts as readers and the value they place on reading. The Motivation to Read Profile was administered to 20 fifth-grade students from a variety of socioeconomic families. After allowing the students to make choices in their…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Reading Attitudes, Reading Material Selection

D'Angelo, Karen; Mahlios, Marc – Reading Teacher, 1983
Concludes that insertion and omission miscues made by either good or poor readers at instructional or frustration levels cause little syntactic and semantic distortion, and that, consequently, time spent coding and interpreting such miscues is probably wasted. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Error Analysis (Language), Grade 5, Intermediate Grades