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Download full textO'Connor, Beth – 2003
In this lesson, grade 6-8 students analyze a variety of poets and their poetry by reading and listening to their work. Students then use information gathered from Internet resources to select a favorite poet and perform one of their poems for the class. During the four 30-minute and five 20-minute sessions, students will: analyze a variety of…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Internet, Lesson Plans, Literary Criticism
Sloan, Glenna Davis – 1984
Intended for teachers, language arts supervisors, curriculum designers, and others interested in the teaching of English in elementary and middle schools, this book proposes a way of unifying the language arts in a program that makes literature the center of language studies. The first chapter includes a discussion of the central role that…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Fiction, Integrated Activities, Language Arts
Discovery Communications, Inc., Bethesda, MD. – 2002
Based on cowboy poetry and songs, this lesson plan presents activities designed to help students understand that Old West cowboys produced a category of literature, people still write cowboy poetry, and cowboy poetry or songs have certain characteristics. The main activity in the lesson involves students in analyzing a classic of cowboy literature…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Language Arts, Lesson Plans
Muse, Daphne, Ed. – 1997
This comprehensive guide to multicultural children's literature features over 1,000 critical and detailed book reviews for pre-school, elementary, and middle school students. The reviews in the guide cover a vast range of picture books, biographies, poetry, anthologies, folktales, and young adult novels, and include synopses, suggestions for…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Biographies, Book Reviews, Childrens Literature
Graham, Laura; Pajares, Frank – 1997
Two studies illustrate the concern that the connection between teachers' beliefs and their instructional practices can be a troublesome one if beliefs are informed by formalist thinking related to truth and caring in the teaching conversation. Subjects, 21 middle school language arts teachers and 216 eighth-grade students were asked what they…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Classroom Communication, Creative Writing, Criticism
Pajares, Frank; Bengston, John K. – 1995
This study explored the assumption that superior instruction can result from the supplementing of teachers' subject knowledge with a formal psychological understanding of learning styles and learner characteristics. Preservice language arts teachers (N=113) were asked to state what they thought would constitute appropriate responses to a middle…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cognitive Style, Creative Writing, Creativity
