| American Literature Courses |
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Listing of available curriculums, classes, and resources for American Literature at the high school level. |
| Design Your Own Spelling Curriculum Without Paying for a Book |
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Suite 101.com by Teresa Higginbotham. Every year as we prepare curriculum, we buy a spelling book. It is always filled with pages of exercises for the children to practice the spelling list for the week. Although some spelling programs and not overly expensive I discovered that we would use the list but maybe only do one of the pages in the workbook. We used other activities either through the internet, or through a downloaded shareware program. So we really were only using about 1/4 of the book we paid for. If you decide you would like to teach spelling without a book You need three things--the lists,the rules and activities to help your children learn. |
| Grammar and it's Teaching: Challenging the Myths |
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Grammar is often misunderstood in the language teaching field. The misconception lies in the view that grammar is a collection of arbitrary rules about static structures in the language. Further questionable claims are that the structures do not have to be taught, learners will acquire them on their own, or if the structures are taught, the lessons that ensue will be boring. |
| Journal Writing in Experiential Education: Possibilities, Problems, and Recommendations |
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Educators who work in the field of experiential education often encourage or require
their students to keep journals. Journals are a time-honored venue for facilitating reflection, an important component of experiential education. |
| Learning History through Children's Literature |
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Teaching history using children's literature, both fiction and non-fiction, is an old idea enjoying new vitality in the elementary and middle school curriculum. This Digest discusses (1) the revival of interest in teaching history through children's literature, (2) research-based guidelines for teachers of history and children's literature, and (3) an innovative method of teaching history using children's literature. |
| Literature Circles |
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Concise discussion of Literature Cirlces along with links to teacher resources. |
| Literature Circles |
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The purpose of this Digest is to introduce some procedures for implementing literature circles and to review some recent findings regarding the benefits of literature circles on students' learning. |
| Literature Circles Build Excitement for Books! |
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Literature circles are one of the hottest trends in language arts teaching. Two experts in the field offer insights and advice about using this instructional strategy. Included: Valuable resources for teachers who want to learn more about using literature circles in their classrooms. |
| What is Journal Writing? |
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Journal writing is a learning tool based on the ideas that students write to learn. Students use the journals to write about topics of personal interest, to note their observations, to imagine, to wonder and to connect new information with things they already know. |
| Writing Instruction: Current Practices in the Classroom |
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Over the past forty years, the emphasis in writing instruction has shifted from product to process. A companion ERIC Digest entitled "Writing Instruction: Changing Views over the Years" gives an overview of this development during the period from 1960 to 1999. The present digest focuses on the experiences of individual teachers as they searched for ways to put the principles of process writing into practice in the classroom. |
