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Strategies To Increase The Critical Reading Skills Of Secondary Students, Laurie Ann Guy Jan 2000

Strategies To Increase The Critical Reading Skills Of Secondary Students, Laurie Ann Guy

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This paper will examine what research has revealed about reading and learning in the areas of word recognition, scaffolding to develop understanding, metacognition and application of new knowledge in real world situations. The study then will go on to link what is known about learning to strategies that have already been developed by secondary teachers to increase critical reading skills.


Writing To Learn In The Secondary Social Studies Classroom: Strategies For The Disinclined, Sharon Price Mckiernan Jan 2000

Writing To Learn In The Secondary Social Studies Classroom: Strategies For The Disinclined, Sharon Price Mckiernan

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This thesis begins with sufficient research to support the contention that secondary teachers should be using writing in the classroom, proceeds to question why some are not, and then supplies specific lesson plan ideas which can be adapted to suit most needs in the secondary history classrooms.


Embellishing The Art Of Writing Instead Of Impairing It During First-Grade Studies, Maria Carmen Canelo Jan 2000

Embellishing The Art Of Writing Instead Of Impairing It During First-Grade Studies, Maria Carmen Canelo

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No abstract provided.


Environmental Print And Emergent Literacy, Kathleen Marie Colwell Jan 2000

Environmental Print And Emergent Literacy, Kathleen Marie Colwell

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Emergent literacy is the awareness that print, logos, labels, and pictures carry a message. An emergent reader already knows something about the world of print from their environment.


Writing Anxiety And The Developing Writer, Barbara Lois Kime Shields Jan 2000

Writing Anxiety And The Developing Writer, Barbara Lois Kime Shields

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No abstract provided.


Research-Based Phonics Instruction For Beginning Readers, Laura Lyn Diamond Jan 2000

Research-Based Phonics Instruction For Beginning Readers, Laura Lyn Diamond

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No abstract provided.


Parents Reading Aloud To Their Children, Margaret Anne Smith Jan 2000

Parents Reading Aloud To Their Children, Margaret Anne Smith

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No abstract provided.