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A Special Dvd Homework Project To Assist At-Risk Students With Reading Practice, Mary Kathleen Kronemeyer
A Special Dvd Homework Project To Assist At-Risk Students With Reading Practice, Mary Kathleen Kronemeyer
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this project was designed to give students and their family's additional support in language arts through a technologically facilitated means to review the skills and strategies that are covered in one theme of the first grade Houghton Mifflin Reading Program. This project provides this additional instruction via a DVD which models ways for the students to practice spelling, practice sight words, reinforce the grammar shills of nouns and verbs and review definitions of vocabulary words.
Guided Reading: The Effects Of Using Guided Reading In The Classroom, Betty Lynn Austin-Byrd
Guided Reading: The Effects Of Using Guided Reading In The Classroom, Betty Lynn Austin-Byrd
Theses Digitization Project
This project set out to find the best methods for use in a Guided Reading classroom as well as the results that would be produced from a year long use of guided reading in a first grade classroom. Guided Reading produces reading results in early and emergent readers as it provides structure and assessment practices for the teacher to instruct and guide students through the process of learning to read.
The Impact Of Children's Literature On The Environmental Awareness Of A Population Of Second Grade Students, Iris Jackeline Russo
The Impact Of Children's Literature On The Environmental Awareness Of A Population Of Second Grade Students, Iris Jackeline Russo
Theses Digitization Project
This project aimed at helping second grade children gain environmental sensitivity and awareness by infusing the existing English Language Arts curriculum with environmental activities. The purpose is to demonstrate how one can infuse the California state's mandated curriculum, Houghton Mifflin, with children's literature in order to promote environmental sensitivity and awareness.
Acquiring Reading Comprehension Skills In Third Grade Students Through The Support Of Web Based Interactive Technology, Lisa Christine Harich
Acquiring Reading Comprehension Skills In Third Grade Students Through The Support Of Web Based Interactive Technology, Lisa Christine Harich
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of the project is to develop an instructional tool, which will help third grade students in building their reading comprehension skills. The instructional tool will allow for more practice time to be worked into the day after a direct instruction lesson has been delivered. Students will be able to practice their reading skills in an interactive format rather than simple lecture or discussion.
Promoting Responsible Environmental Behavior In Second Grade Students, Mary Annette Kirchhoff
Promoting Responsible Environmental Behavior In Second Grade Students, Mary Annette Kirchhoff
Theses Digitization Project
This project provides a convenient way to incorporate environmental education into the already exiting curriculum. Many of the environmental lessons and activities provided in this project cover language arts and math standards as well as providing students with the environmental knowledge, sensitivity, and skills they need.
Aesthetic Scanning: Refining Critical Thinking Through Oral Language Activities, Elaine Diana Golledge
Aesthetic Scanning: Refining Critical Thinking Through Oral Language Activities, Elaine Diana Golledge
Theses Digitization Project
This study examines the use of aesthetics in the art education curriculum as a strategy for building oral language skills and critical thinking skills. In this study reproduced artworks were used to stimulate discussion; students learned to scan paintings using a technique called aesthetic scanning during which they learn how to look at a painting orally through guided questioning by the classroom teacher. It was concluded that providing oral language opportunities through the implementation of the aesthetic scanning program was an effective way to promote oral language skills and critical thinking skills in the kindergarten classroom. Arts, as a core …
Tell Me A Story About Feathers: Teaching Discipline Through Literature, Carol Tripoli Rondeau
Tell Me A Story About Feathers: Teaching Discipline Through Literature, Carol Tripoli Rondeau
Theses Digitization Project
This project contends that the instructional time given to language arts is the appropriate time to teach discipline. Sample lesson plans incorporating the teaching of discipline into California's third grade curriculum are offered to inspire and inform educators to become teachers of self-discipline.
Integrating Computer Software Within The Houghton Mifflin Language Arts Program, Leslie Serine Ouren
Integrating Computer Software Within The Houghton Mifflin Language Arts Program, Leslie Serine Ouren
Theses Digitization Project
This project was created for third grade teachers who use the Houghton Mifflin Language Arts series and want to integrate computer software into their writing curriculum. The website created includes all the writing assignments that the students are to complete and the required software used to complete the assignment.
Critical Dialogue: A Study Of Social Justice And Academic Language In Emergent Literacy, Anna Teresa Vãsquez
Critical Dialogue: A Study Of Social Justice And Academic Language In Emergent Literacy, Anna Teresa Vãsquez
Theses Digitization Project
This project documents the implementation of the Critical Dialogue Instructional Framework and analyzes the development of emergent writer's use of academic language functions .
Literacy Instruction In The All-Day Kindergarten Program, Lannette Christine Celaya
Literacy Instruction In The All-Day Kindergarten Program, Lannette Christine Celaya
Theses Digitization Project
This project begins by looking at kindergarten from a historical perspective. It reviews research relating to all-day kindergarten and half-day kindergarten programs. It demonstrates that increased instructional time is beneficial especially for those low-achieving or disadvantaged students.
Word Study: An Interactive Approach To Word Solving, Nancy Watkins Walker
Word Study: An Interactive Approach To Word Solving, Nancy Watkins Walker
Theses Digitization Project
This project addresses the problems some second grade students face when reading and writing due to decoding and encoding confusions and difficulties.
Literacy Through Writing, Glenda Jean Lindberg
Literacy Through Writing, Glenda Jean Lindberg
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Integrating A Science/Language Arts Curriculum Through The Use Of Theme Cycles In A First And Third Grade Classroom, Mary Carrillo, Lorena Montoya
Integrating A Science/Language Arts Curriculum Through The Use Of Theme Cycles In A First And Third Grade Classroom, Mary Carrillo, Lorena Montoya
Theses Digitization Project
A collaborative science curriculum created by a first and third grade class. The students were provided with the global theme of change and were invited to brainstorm topics of interests that were utilized to create a science theme cycle.
Relationship Between Early Entrance Age And "At-Risk" Students In Later Years, Victoria Ann Sanabria Budinko
Relationship Between Early Entrance Age And "At-Risk" Students In Later Years, Victoria Ann Sanabria Budinko
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Videotaping: A Tool For Self-Evaluation In Language Arts Processes, Linda Marie Niblack
Videotaping: A Tool For Self-Evaluation In Language Arts Processes, Linda Marie Niblack
Theses Digitization Project
The project represents an ethnographic study of second grade children using video technology to facilitate self-evaluation in the reading/writing processes.
Using Whole Language Strategies With Learning Disabled Children, Turi Moffitt Lindquist
Using Whole Language Strategies With Learning Disabled Children, Turi Moffitt Lindquist
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Integrating Science Through Literature, Debra J. Pender
Integrating Science Through Literature, Debra J. Pender
Theses Digitization Project
Whole language method--Integration of science and literature--Language centered orientation--Integrated curriculum.
Integrating Literature Across The First Grade Curriculum Through Thematic Units, Diana Gomez-Schardein
Integrating Literature Across The First Grade Curriculum Through Thematic Units, Diana Gomez-Schardein
Theses Digitization Project
Transformational theoretical model -- Literature-based thematic units -- Reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
A Reading Program For Reading Specialists In Primary Grades, Mary E. Dominick
A Reading Program For Reading Specialists In Primary Grades, Mary E. Dominick
Theses Digitization Project
Whole language method.