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Schuster, Nancy J. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 1997
Describes a freshman-level communications course within a business college that uses holistic instruction and that fuses the language arts to help students with college-level reading, writing, speaking, and listening. (SR)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Higher Education, Holistic Approach, Integrated Activities
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Dorsey-Gaines, Catherine; Ashelman, Polly; Jackson, Norma; Jackson, Peter – Language Arts, 2001
Discusses 11 books that present thought-provoking ideas to help classroom teachers, parents, and administrators understand the world of developing literacy. Addresses a variety of professional books ranging from texts that focus on issues of race, to books that take up emergent literacy, to texts on beginning teaching. (SR)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Books, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergent Literacy
Simic, Marge; Smith, Carl, Comp. – 1990
Originally developed for the Department of Defense Schools (DoDDS) system, this learning package on guiding at-risk students in the language arts classroom is designed for teachers who wish to upgrade or expand their teaching skills on their own. The package includes a comprehensive search of the ERIC database; a lecture giving an overview on the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Communication Apprehension, Distance Education, Elementary Education
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Bowman, Cindy; Edenfield, Renn – English Journal, 2000
Describes the Better Together project and website, which connected preservice teachers with seventh-grade reluctant readers through pen-pal correspondences and email, a variety of small and large group technology-based activities, tutoring, and classroom visits and teaching. Offers descriptions from two of the preservice teachers. Discusses…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Educational Technology, English Instruction, Grade 7
Reinking, David, Ed. – 1987
Embodying two themes--that the computer can become an even more exciting instructional tool than it is today, and that the research necessary for developing the potential of this tool is already underway, this book explores the theoretical, research, and instructional issues concerning computers and reading. The titles of the essays and their…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation