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Non-Sexist Language Curriculum Guidebook, Maureen Parrella Steiner
Non-Sexist Language Curriculum Guidebook, Maureen Parrella Steiner
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Included is a skills development curriculum unit for secondary English students which encourages the use of non-sexist language with creativity within the content area. The study contains lists of objectives, writing, reading and group activities, an attitude survey for students and an evaluation checklist for teachers. Classroom discussions, films, fairy tales and skills development exercises are used to help students recognize and find alternatives to sexist language. The rationale for the teaching of non-sexist language is based on the theory that how we speak stems from how we think, and visa-versa. If sexism in reading and writing is identified and …
An Integrated Listening Skills Program For The Kindergarten Class, Bonita Duggan Diamond
An Integrated Listening Skills Program For The Kindergarten Class, Bonita Duggan Diamond
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This study will attempt to develop a Listening Skills Curriculum in the areas of auditory discrimination, auditory sequencing ability, and grammatic completion for the purpose of improving auditory comprehension. These three skills are components of auditory comprehension. Auditory discrimination and auditory sequencing ability have been chosen as two skills to develop in this program because past research indicates that improvement in these skills does correlate with improvement in auditory comprehension. Grammatic completion is a modified form of auditory closure in which the student completes the sentence with the grammatically preferred inflectional ending. It is expected that exercises in this skill …
Poetry Curriculum, Patricia Thran
Poetry Curriculum, Patricia Thran
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this project is to aid the classroom teacher in exposing children to poetry through a curriculum guide with enabling activities which will encourage children to develop an appreciation and understanding of poetry.