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Shapiro, Sheila – Reading Research Quarterly, 1985
Reports on a study that examined the manuals of sixth-grade basal readers to determine whether the suggested poetry teaching procedures reflected the pedagogical procedures recommended by expert opinion, concluding that they did not. (HOD)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Childrens Literature, Content Analysis, Educational Objectives
De Francisco, Carrie; Burns, Marilyn – 2002
This book contains a collection of fraction lessons that support curriculum and instruction. The goals of the lessons are to give all students the chance to: (1) extend their understanding of the place value system to include decimals; (2) learn how decimals relate to fractions; (3) represent, read, and interpret decimal numerals; (4) compare…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Basic Skills, Curriculum Design, Decimal Fractions
Dougherty, Barbara J. – 2002
This book introduces journal-writing prompts in mathematics for grades 5-6. Content prompts, attitudinal or affective prompts, and process prompts are presented. Each of the content prompts relates or connects topics within and outside of mathematics, targeting important or meaningful concepts and skills. The content prompts also provide…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Concept Formation, Educational Change, Elementary Education

Simmons, Deborah C.; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1988
Results of an experimental study involving 49 sixth-grade science students suggest that teacher-constructed graphic organizers, regardless of position (before or after textual reading), are no more effective than traditional instruction in increasing comprehension and retention of science content-area information. (IAH)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary School Science, Grade 6, Graphic Organizers

Heller, Mary F. – Reading Teacher, 1988
Describes a Language Experience Approach (LEA) dictation given by sixth-grade remedial readers, and discusses some weaknesses in using LEA to teach remedial reading. Explains how LEA can be modified to produce a more effective model for reading comprehension and writing instruction. (MM)
Descriptors: Dictation, Elementary Education, Grade 6, Language Experience Approach

Ruest, Linda D. – Social Science Record, 1994
Asserts that successful teaching and learning can be summarized in one word: collaboration. Discusses cooperative learning and three types of collaboration: (1) collaboration among teachers; (2) collaboration between student and teacher; and (3) collaboration among students. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Cooperative Planning, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades

Wiersema, Bert; Van Oudenhoven, Jan Pieter – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1992
Presents study results on the effects of students working in pairs on spelling in three different grades. Explains that students working individually were compared to students working in pairs. Reports less off-task behavior for the younger students working in pairs. Concludes that effort increases in pair work, but achievement increased only at…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Cooperative Learning, Educational Research, Elementary Education

Thompson, Patrick W.; Thompson, Alba G. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1994
Examines how one teacher's way of knowing mathematics was reflected in language used in teaching concepts of rate to one student. The teacher's conceptualizations of rate were encapsulated in the language of numbers and operations which undermined his effort to help the student understand rates conceptually. (Contains 27 references.) (Author/MKR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Discourse Analysis, Elementary School Mathematics

Mulryan, Catherine M. – Journal of Educational Research, 1992
Reports findings of a study that investigated fifth and sixth graders' attending and participating behaviors during mathematics. Some students, especially low achievers, manifested passivity in cooperative small groups. Some possible reasons for this behavior are suggested, and a categorization of types of passivity is provided. (Author/SM)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 5, Grade 6

Smith, Walter S.; Burrichter, Cindy – Science and Children, 1993
Describes the use of cross-age tutoring in which sixth-grade students are used to teach first-grade students about plants. Provides a list of praise words used by the sixth graders and discusses the mutual benefits received by the students. (MDH)
Descriptors: Biology, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science

Orman, Evelyn K. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1998
Determines the effects of the development and implementation of an interactive multimedia computer program on the achievement and attitude of sixth-grade saxophonists by comparing the achievement of experimental and control groups. Suggests that proper development and application of educational multimedia computer programs may benefit instrumental…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Computer Uses in Education, Grade 6, Instructional Material Evaluation
Van Dyke, Frances; Tomback, Jessica – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2005
This article describes a collaboration between a university professor and a sixth-grade teacher who teamed to introduce algebra using a visual approach. The project began with a study of qualitative graphs, moved on to quantitative graphs, then introduced tables of values and finally concentrated on equations. (Contains 12 figures.)
Descriptors: Algebra, Graphs, Teacher Collaboration, College School Cooperation
Murphy, David E.; Gulley, Laura L. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2005
The story of John Henry provided the setting for sixth-grade class to participate in a John Henry Day of mathematics experiments. The students collected data from experiments where students competed against machines and technology. The student analyzed the data by comparing two box plots, a box plot of human data, and a box plot of machine or…
Descriptors: Folk Culture, Grade 6, Mathematics Instruction, Data Analysis
Myhill, Debra; Dunkin, Frances – Language and Education, 2005
This paper draws on observation data from 54 teaching episodes in Year 2 and Year 6 whole-class teaching. It describes the findings of the analysis and illustrates how "interactive", whole-class teaching is characterised by questions requiring predetermined answers. Speculative questions, which invite opinions, hypotheses and imaginings,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Questioning Techniques, Teaching Methods
Kinloch, Valerie F. – English Education, 2005
In this essay, the author argues for a democratized way of developing a consciousness of differences by describing two abbreviated creative writing classroom experiences with urban sixth grade middle school students during the 2002-2003 academic year. She draws on Tony Medina's (2001) claim that poetry and writing weave people and worlds together…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Poetry