Describes a reading program that is a combination of the best in existing reading series and includes a tailor-made word attack skills segment. (RB)

Creating and displaying artworks based on words helps students appreciate the subtle strengths of language. (JH)

Studied the effects of two methods of instruction in teaching the conceptual meaning of 15 unfamiliar words. (HOD)

Describes exercises designed to teach students the differences between one-word and two-word forms. (HOD)

Explains how antonymy (opposition) can offer another approach to vocabulary development in a classroom situation. (HOD)

Three week study of second graders indicated that nonsense words were more effective than meaningful words in teaching alphabetizing. (SP)

Outlines procedures by which teachers can foster and speed up student vocabulary growth. Discusses three aspects of categorization: word fluency, the list-group-label lesson, and feature analysis. (RL)

Suggests that spelling instruction must go beyond the use of a text or series and that spelling should be impressed on students as an important part of their writing. Proofreading, peer editing of compositions, and other techniques for spelling improvement are discussed. (SJL)

Discusses how young minds come to understandings about how words work, what conditions are necessary for these realizations, and how teachers can help. Discusses instruction that hinders, allows, or helps students' progress. (RS)

This teacher's guide for teaching decoding contains suggestions for teaching letter sounds and short vowel trigrams; words and syllables with long vowels; consonant blends and some digraphs; some common prefixes, suffixes, and irregular word parts; and dipthongs and vowel digraphs. Each of the five chapters contains several skills to be taught.…

A GUIDE FOR PLANNING SPECIFIC INSTRUCTION FOR DEVELOPING INDEPENDENT WORD ATTACK PRESENTS THE SKILLS NECESSARY FOR MASTERING SIGHT VOCABULARY, WORD RECOGNITION, AND THE USE OF THE DICTIONARY. SPECIFIC DEFINITIONS OF TERMS AND EXAMPLES OF TEACHING TECHNIQUES WITH THE SEQUENCE OF INSTRUCTION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHONETIC AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS…

ONE OF THE USES FOR POETRY IN THE CLASSROOM IS THAT OF STUDYING THE WAY A POET EMPLOYS FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE AND THE CONCRETE, SENSUAL IMAGE TO BRING INTO SHARP FOCUS, OR SUGGEST BY CONNOTATION, THE DEFINITION OF A SINGLE WORD. THIS, IN TURN, CAN LEAD TO STUDENT EXERCISES IN DEFINING WORDS IN CONCRETE SENSUAL LANGUAGE. BY TAKING A POEM WHICH SEEMS…

Suggests teaching word attack skills using these steps: present, practice, apply, review, and re-review. (MKM)

Reviews numerous meaning-based vocabulary methods that use comparing, contrasting, making analogies, or developing examples of concepts and relates them to the adult basic education setting. (JOW)