The course offers instruction in writing processes, collaborative writing strategies, methods of organization, research skills, discourse conventions of Standard Written English, rhetorical strategies, computer-based writing, and the production of expository academic essays. ... Course Outcomes Outcome 1: Writing Process Students will understand and engage in writing as a process. ... Writing Matters: A Handbook for Writing and Research. ... Connections: Guide to First-Year Writing @ Clayton State. ... See the First-Year Writing website (clayton.edu/ firstyearwriting) and your instructor f...

• Word Count: 6229
• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School

In 1838, he started a journal, which he wrote two times a week called "Common School Journal" for teachers and lectured on education to all who would listen. Around the time he started writing his journal, he developed six principles of education that should be followed. ... A local woman of no high education who teach the children basics, like counting, their ABC's, simple reading and writing, and daily chores around the house (or in at a farm). ...

• Word Count: 2694
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Those included the domains, which were basically the topics the students would focus on for a certain amount of time and all their subjects (math, reading, writing, etc.) would all have to do with that one topic (i.e. the four seasons). ... There was also a writing area, where the students picked different words from a bag and had to write different sentences with those words. ...

• Word Count: 6745
• Approx Pages: 27
• Grade Level: High School

She laid the foundation for the techniques in detecting early reading and writing problems of children. ... Students are measured by letter identification, word test, concepts of print, writing vocabulary, hearing sounds in words and text reading level. ... If a child shows difficulty during the writing portion of the thirty minute lesson, the teacher implements various strategies to aid the student's comprehension such as questioning methods; (4) Introduction and reading of a new book (Center, Wheldall & Freeman, 1992). During the lesson, the student is continually involved in holist...

• Word Count: 3195
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

If students are not reading on the grade level they should be, then they certainly are not writing and comprehending on the appropriate levels. ... Many teachers articulate that their instruction is driven by fundamental needs and interests of their students; however, when asked to incorporate vocabulary , reading, and writing into their daily instruction practices, it becomes a challenge and sometimes impossible to do due to every day constraints. ... Vocabulary, reading, and writing are complementary. ...

• Word Count: 3505
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Professional influences: Its emphasis is back to the basics, the 3 R's were emphasized (reading, writing, and arithmetic). ... Teachers should keep abreast with journals and visit seminars. ...

• Word Count: 5657
• Approx Pages: 23
• Grade Level: High School

While the students work on crafting an essay or journal, the teacher can select from a variety of relaxing songs such as Baroque, Chinese, Celtic and others. When the children are working on their writing, the melody helps them express "inner thoughts and feeling and develops the understanding of rhythm, pitch and form." ...

• Word Count: 2625
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Abstract Reading Comprehension research has a long and rich history, when examining the process of reading comprehension and the effective instruction of it. What comprehension is, how comprehension occurs and how to teach comprehension have driven hundreds of research studies in the last 30 yea...

• Word Count: 3864
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abstract: The traditional way of teaching reading affects the students' reading ability. This paper analyses its disadvantages and gives some suggestions and measures from different aspects. They are vocabulary, reading habits, reading skills, outside reading and also the psychology of the current s...

• Word Count: 3965
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School