READING DEVELOPMENT IS NECESSARY AT ALL LEVELS OF THE STUDENT'S EDUCATION WHETHER HE IS ACHIEVING BEYOND, BEHIND, OR AT GRADE LEVEL. THE VOCABULARY SKILL EXERCISES. DESCRIBED IN THIS GUIDE ARE HELD TO HAVE BEEN ESPECIALLY EFFECTIVE IN THE CLASSROOM. THE TEACHER IS EXPECTED TO ADAPT EXERCISES SUITED TO THE NEEDS OF A PARTICULAR CLASS, IT SHOULD BE…

This study examined the effect of the occurrence of homophones in instructional materials on the learning of new vocabulary. Forty-two junior high school seventh graders were randomly assigned to two groups of 21 each. Group one was exposed to a set of six slides that showed sentences using homophonic pairs of words (juxtaposed sentences) and then…

After briefly outlining objectives for a one-semester or one-year course in business communication, suggested motivation and teaching techniques for use with the objectives are discussed in the following areas: grammar and punctuation principles, organization and writing of business letters and reports, the psychology of effective communication,…

Reports on a study designed to determine the effects of preteaching vocabulary of differing levels of importance to a text using two different methods of instruction on children's comprehension of basal stories. Concludes that, in general, the results supported the growing evidence for the "direct effect" of instruction on children's text…

Offers a technique for teaching vocabulary that integrates the use of individual students' needs and experiences with the use of sentence context in determining specific situational word meanings. (FL)

Compares the effectiveness of two types of classroom vocabulary instruction with a noninstruction type homework assignment. (FL)

Describes a teaching strategy that can develop the student's cognitive ability for learning the labels for new thoughts, ideas, and concepts and a teaching strategy that promotes the learning more through modeling the teacher's interest in words. (HOD)

This manual is intended to assist teachers in implementing a comprehensive approach to teaching academic vocabulary at the classroom, school, and district levels. Using the manual's list of 7,923 terms, school and district teams can choose the most important vocabulary terms they want to teach to all students. All vocabulary terms are extracted…

To cope with a wide range of reading skill levels in their classes, high school social studies teachers must assess their students' competence and then help them develop skills to understand course materials. This article describes two assessment methods and five skill teaching methods. For journal availability, see SO 509 175. (AM)

Four hundred eighty-two articles appearing in "The French Review" between 1960 and 1979 are listed according to the following categories: culture, culture content, curriculum, Franco-American relations, grammar, history of the teaching of French in the U.S., linguistics, listening, teaching of literature, reading, speaking, teacher education,…

Presents five steps within a structured plan for motivating students to read widely, thus increasing their vocabularies. (JM)

Describes how one elementary educator teaches word study strategies that enlarge students' understanding of phonics and vocabulary. A primary level activity has students create a thematic word wall. An intermediate level activity has students conduct a new word hunt. A reproducible student page helps students sort words by sound. (SM)

Third grade students involved in group-assisted reading made greater achievement gains in comprehension and vocabulary than did those who were given no assistance. Group-assisted reading is easy to implement and may be used to help remedial readers perform better. (JD)

Describes a method of increasing vocabulary recognition of Chapter 1 elementary students by using mastery words from basal programs, sight word cards, and modified cloze stories. (MG)