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Reviews: Professional Materials, Robert Hafner, Elizabeth Gibboney, Sherry R. Myers, Jeanne M. Jacobson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Science Learning: Processes and Applications. Carol Minnick Santa and Donna E. Alvermann (Eds.) 1991. Books for Children and Young Adults: The Day Patch Stood Guard; The Day Veronica Was Nosy; The Day Sidney Ran Off; The Day the Ducks Went Skating; The Pumpkin Man and the Craft Creeper; Monster Goes to School; Monster's Birthday Hiccups; Fast Forward; Reynard the Fox; Androcles and the Lion and Other Aesop's Fables; Tales of Edgar Allen Poe; Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince and Other Stories

School-Based Staff Development To Encourage Reading In Elementary And Middle Schools, Linda Mixon Clary

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Recent educational reports, conferences, and articles have urged schools to allow students to read more than the seven to eight minutes per day currently allocated in many schools. Unfortunately, the basic skills emphasis of the last several years has drawn our attention away from emphasizing wide reading in school and allowing school time for students to read. This article contains several ideas for staff developers to use in helping schools plan how to encourage wide readings.

Reading Horizons Vol. 32, No. 3

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons, volume 32, issue 3.

Using Poetry In The Intermediate Grades, Luethel M. Kormanski

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Poetry is the natural language of children. When children are observed at play, their enjoyment of rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, and other elements of poetry is obvious. One would assume that poetry would be emphasized in language arts instruction; however, this literature form is often a neglected aspect of this curriculum. Survey research suggests that the sharing of poetry by teachers with their classes decreases as students enter the intermediate grades and middle school grades.

Living Through Literacy Experiences Versus Literacy Analysis: Examining Stance In Children's Response To Literature, Joyce E. Many

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

In her transactional theory of reader-response, Rosenblatt (1978) has hypothesized that a reader's stance, or focus of attention when approaching literature affects the individual's reaction to and understanding of a work. An efferent stance indicates the reader's attention is focused on the information to be learned and can lead to a study of the text. From an aesthetic stance, on the other hand, the reader's focus is upon the lived-through literary experiencce and the experiences, thoughts, feelings, images, and associations which are evoked.

Can Middle School Students Summarize?, Andrea Giese Maxworthy, Arlene Barry

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

One frequently needed study skill is summarization. Summarizing text information is a valuable study activity which helps students understand and remember important ideas. In order to summarize, students must reduce the text to its main points. This requires an ability to analyze text structure and discard inessential information.

The Development Of Basal Reader Teacher's Manuals, Lynda Stratman Robinson

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Teacher's manuals were developed in the early years of the twentieth century to provide teachers with information on how to present new teaching techniques in reading. Over the years, these manuals have continued to attempt not only to present new techniques and ideas in response to research but also to provide teachers with increased amounts of materials so that teachers can offer instruction to meet the needs of individual children. No manual can ever take the place of a well-prepared teacher, but most manuals provide suggestions and supplementary materials which can be valuable to teachers.

Expanding Horizons, Sharon Crawley, Linda Jones Mccoy, Victoria Hammett, Mary P. Deming, Maria Valeri-Gold

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Mother Goose is Alive and Culturally Relevant; Predictable Books in a Middle School Class Writing Program; Computers and the Developmental Learner

Wmu Board Of Trustees Annual Meeting January 31, 1992, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Approval of the Minutes
• Correspondence
• Remarks by the President
• Election of Officers
• Recommendation re Honorary Degree
• Academic and Student Affairs Committee Recommendations
• Grant Report
• Personnel Report
• Gift Report
• Personnel Report
• Appointment of External Auditor
• Recreational Facility Utilities Construction Contract
• Lease Agreements/Muskegon Regional Center
• Assignments of Patent Agreement/Polyform, Inc., Battle Creek
• Executive Session
• MSU/KCMS Agreement
• Remarks by the Provost
• Public Comments
• Adjournment

Western News, January 30, 1992, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: WMU/KVCC partnership boosts transfer rate for minority students, Device could help hearing impaired with telephone talk, Events planned in celebration of Black History Month, Search for dean of business college under way; committee plans to recommend finalist by April, Faculty members share their expertise with talented high school students

Western News, January 23, 1992, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story Highlights: Geologist uses Teflon to speed up recovery of petroleum spills under $93,000 EPA grant, CEO Council asks WMU to take on business center, Group's spans four decades of education in music school, Two promoted to positions in Division of Continuing Education

Western News, January 16, 1992, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story Highlights: 1991 recycling efforts net 336 tons of paper and cardboard, University has 'wiggle room' in charting its futures, Public events planned to commemorate King birthday, Levin to focus on economic implications of educationally at-risk students in Jan. 22 lecture, Miller to be honored as 1992 'Man of the Year', Brewer writes atlas with nature center authors on 215 breeding bird species in Michigan, University earns more than $250,000 each in gifts and grants during November; board learns, Blasch honored for contributions

Western News, January 9, 1992, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story Highlights: Renovation to result in road changes; office relocations, Wolpe to discuss Cold War, alienation in Clark Lectures, Citizens group formed to support public higher education, Coyne honored as advocate for students with Distinguished Service Award from trustees, Retirement options for p/tJa staff members include incentive window and supplement plan, Stamm to direct budget and allocation process as executive assistant in academic affairs office, Beam book provides pointers on preparing successful reports for students and professionals

Chaos And Order, Mystery And Knowledge, The Beautiful And Mundane: College Student Conceptualizations Of Nature, William W. Cobern

Scientific Literacy and Cultural Studies Project

What do students believe about the world around them? Hawkins (1983) suggested that young students can have a difficult time understanding heliocentrism because their personal experience is literally geocentric. What this illustrates is that meaningful learning in the science classroom presupposes students who enter with beliefs about the world compatible with science as it is taught in the classroom. The study of student beliefs (or for that matter, teacher beliefs) at fundamental levels is the study of worldview (Cobern, 1991a). The research reported here was an interpretive study of beliefs about nature, a delimitation of worldview, held by women college …

Human Capital And Economic Development 1992-93, Department Of Economics

Werner Sichel Lecture Series

"Human Capital and Economic Development" is the twenty-ninth Annual Public Lecture Series organized by the Department of Economics at Western Michigan University. This year's series, which aims to explore the role of Human Capital in Economic Development from the national and international dimensions, is co-directed by Professors Sisay Asefa and Wei-Chiao Huang of the WMU Economics Department, and is co-sponsored by the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. All lectures are open to the public and no admission is charged. A question and answer session will follow each lecture.

Medieval Danish Wooden Sculpture: Roods: Part Ii: 1400 A.D. - 1600 A.D., James Mills

Early Drama, Art, and Music

An index of Danish examples of rood figures in the areas covered to that date in Danmarks Kirker, now represented by the website danmarkskirker.natmus.dk. This digitized version includes text pages only.

University Employee Service Recognition Program 1992, Western Michigan University

25 Year Club

25 Year Club

• New Inductees
• Members
• Retirees
• Thirty-five Years of Service
• Thirty Years of Service
• Twenty Years of Service
• Fifteen Years of Service
• Ten Years of Service

Different Perspectives On The Natural World: Biology Professors And Their Students, William W. Cobern

Scientific Literacy and Cultural Studies Project

The science classroom is the location of complex interactions between students, teacher, curriculum, and environment. These interactions can lead to conflict where the various factors pertaining to students, teacher, curriculum, and environment are at odds. Interest in these types of conflicts has led to numerous studies of classroom processes including those concerned with gender, ethnicity, religion, and language (e.g., Fraser, 1989). Worldview is a factor of more recent interest to researchers and is at an early stage of methodological development and nascent investigation (Cobern, 1991c). Pertaining to the classroom, worldview research focuses on the fundamental beliefs held by teachers and …

Institutional Data Reference Book (1992-93), Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Fact Books

• General Information
• Enrollment Information
• Institutional Comparison
• Student Information
• Faculty Information
• Budgets and Resources

The Jury, Bryan Charles

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Gratitude, Lucienne Roe

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Wicker People, Karry Blank

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Bare Branches, Alysia Dewitt

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Lemon Lick Of..., Bryan Charles

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Nine Ways To Ingest A House Fly, Silva Semerciyan

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Watercolours, Andy Bikichky

Calliope (1954-2001)

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No Way Out, Mike Thompson

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Catch The Chase, Lucienne Roe

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Make-Believe Reality, Brad Ryder

Calliope (1954-2001)

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Beside Still Waters, Lynette Mallett

Calliope (1954-2001)

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