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Weissman, Annie – 2001
This book's purpose is to assist school library media specialists in incorporating specific learning objectives into a storytime format, thus extending the storytime experience into standards-based reading and writing lessons. The book is intended for veteran and beginning school library media specialists and teachers who collaborate with them.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Learning Activities
Direct linkOnofrey, Karen A. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2006
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how five middle school students examined humor and characterization used in adolescent literature according to Louise Rosenblatt's (1995) reader response transactional theory. The study was conducted with a focus group of five 6th-grade students, three girls and two boys, from a public…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Personality, Literary Devices, Reader Response
Download full textLanger, Judith A. – 1992
The current national focus on critical thinking is unnecessarily narrow in its scope, and this mitigates against essential changes being made in the thinking and reasoning activities experienced by students. Two shortcomings, however, restrict the possibilities for change: the first results from taking a generic (versus discipline-based) view of…
Descriptors: College English, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Language Arts
Nugent, Harold; Nugent, Susan – 1985
The double-entry journal requires students to write affective response statements to readings, and to compare such entries with classmates. After discussions with peers and critical analysis of the literature, students write a second journal entry synthesizing insights gained from discussion, analysis, readings, and writings. The journal (1)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Arts, Literature Appreciation, Peer Relationship
Bromley, Karen D'Angelo – 1998
This third edition blends current research, theory, and practice in integrating the language arts in kindergarten through grade 6 with the content areas and children's literature. It details the connections between and among the receptive language arts--listening, reading, and viewing--and the expressive arts--speaking and writing. The book…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Diversity (Student), Elementary Education, Integrated Curriculum
Indiana State Dept. of Education, Indianapolis. – 2000
This booklet of academic standards spells out what students should know and be able to do in Grade 10 English/Language Arts. The booklet gives examples to help students understand what is required to meet the standards and provides a list of 10 things parents can do to help their child get a good education. It outlines the following seven…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, English, Grade 10
Indiana State Dept. of Education, Indianapolis. – 2000
This booklet of academic standards spells out what students should know and be able to do in Grade 11 English/Language Arts. The booklet gives examples to help students understand what is required to meet the standards and provides a list of 10 things parents can do to help their child get a good education. It outlines the following seven…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, English, Grade 11
Indiana State Dept. of Education, Indianapolis. – 2000
This booklet of academic standards spells out what students should know and be able to do in Grade 12 English/Language Arts. The booklet gives examples to help students understand what is required to meet the standards and provides parents with a list of 10 things they can do to help their child get a good education. It outlines the following…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, English, Grade 12
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. Office of World Wise Schools. – 2002
This collection of Peace Corps stories is designed for use by grades 7-12 language arts teachers. The collection is divided into two sections, (1) Peace Corps Stories; and (2) Curriculum Units. The first section contains nine Peace Corps texts around which the lesson plans are organized. Representing a variety of literary genres (personal…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Reader Response, Reading Comprehension, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedEisenkraft, Stacey L. – English Journal, 1999
Describes how a middle school English/language arts teacher had students paint in watercolors their responses to the novel the class was reading. Describes how this approach signficantly improved the rate and quality of student participation, and brought out new voices and fresh readings of the text. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Language Arts, Literature Appreciation
Peer reviewedMany, Joyce E.; Hutchingson, Rebecca; Nicklow, Lisa – Reading Horizons, 1997
Examines literary discourse that occurred in a sixth-grade language arts classroom within a departmentalized, multidisciplinary, and then an interdisciplinary, context. Identifies discourse elements. Organizes elements into the following broad themes: (1) the text and the story world; (2) the reader and the story world; and (3) discipline…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Discourse Communities, Grade 6, Integrated Activities
Peer reviewedPershey, Monica Gordon – Ohio Reading Teacher, 1998
Summarizes three studies presented at the 1997 Ohio Council of the International Reading Association Fall conference: (1) a study of students' response to text in a university classroom; (2) systematic spelling instruction for learning disabled students; and (3) a one year investigation of the internship experiences of two preservice language arts…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Internship Programs, Language Arts, Literacy
Cook, Leslie Susan; Amatucci, Kristi Bruce – English Education, 2006
In the last ten years, colleges of education have pledged written support to addressing issues of diversity. Mission statements and revised syllabi have been common elements in this movement for inclusiveness, and teacher candidates in English language arts are part of the transformation. Literature often has been considered a quick and easy way…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Teachers, Literature
Hepburn, H. P. C. – 1993
In the Education Commission Report #4 of Hong Kong, three dimensions of learning are noted: cognitive, interpersonal, and aesthetic. In most Hong Kong schools, teaching focuses on the cognitive dimension and to some extent on the interpersonal. The aesthetic dimension is largely ignored, except for the ubiquitous class reader and a handful of…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Drama, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Response
Monseau, Virginia R. – 1996
This book focuses on how readers respond to the power of young adult literature--negating the assumption that because such literature appeals to adolescents it cannot possibly be worthy of a place in the language arts curriculum. The book serves two purposes: it describes and discusses the oral and written response of adolescents and adults to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Curriculum Development, English Curriculum
