From 3 to 5 pieces, they choose one to make into a book. ... This block ends with "author's chair" in which several students each day share work in progress or their published book. ... Occasionally the teacher comes to word that they have to "stretch out" by the way it sounds. ... When the timer sounds, the children put away their work and come to the sharing area to hear what their classmates have written. ... Brainstorming-  The teacher tells the class that they are going to make a class book about dinosaurs. ...

• Word Count: 1940
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

., children cannot learn to read without an understanding of sounds. They must know the alphabet and the sounds that letters make in order to communicate verbally. ... The sounds should not be taught as a separate "subject- with emphasis on drills and pure memorization. ... The understanding of sounds of many children will arise from their interest, knowledge and ideas. ... There are many opportunities to teach the sound that makes a letter when children want to know. ...

• Word Count: 2309
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In a book titled Japanese Society Today Tadashi Fukutake summed up the effects that the past had on the Japanese educational system of today. ... The Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Japan compiled a book called The Japan of Today and in the book it is stated that, "The central concept in Japanese education today is to produce self-reliant citizens of a peaceful and democratic state and community with respect for human rights and a love for truth and peace" (115). ... While many sources by others site the Monbusho as one of the many problems with the Japanese educational system, the wordin...

• Word Count: 1948
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example, The Pronunciation Book by Bowen & Marks or 'Sound Foundations' by Adrian Underhill seem very different from a book such as Ship and Sheep by Baker. ... " Achieving Intelligibility can be carried out through segmental (individual sounds) or suprasegmental (features of speech which extend over more than one sound segment in an utterance, such as a pitch, stress or juncture pattern) approach. ...

• Word Count: 2008
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The conversation between him and his mother, once a "flood of intimate sounds", is now a yes or no based conversation. ... Everywhere you see him, he reads a book. ... He also gives his own definition of a book. "An important book" should not be enjoyable to read. ... He asks this rhetorical question: "Could anything shorter be a book?" ...

• Word Count: 2210
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

For example, a math or spelling program that contains all kinds of interesting images and sounds can capture the attention of students with ADHD. ... Their movement is limited by the impairment of their body parts; therefore, they might experience difficulty in activities that involve using fine motor skills such as turning book pages and controlling computers. ... According to the textbook, there are ten tips for a better memory in which four of the tips can be found in using assistive technology in learning; they are attention, pictures, sounds, and relaxation (Woolfolk, Winne, & Perry, 2012...

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Description of the Issue of Inequality The issues of inequality are prevalent in this book. ... It is this concept that is pervasive throughout this book. ... When applied to this book, the hegemonic curriculum deals with what type of emphasis is placed on which subjects that are taught in school. ... Sociological Concept # 3 Hidden Curriculum/Gender Code These sociological concepts go hand in hand when used to describe situations in this book. ... McCourt writes, "when she sways up the aisle to my desk the boys make woo woo sounds and, Whaddya doin" the rest of my life Daniela? ...

• Word Count: 1906
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Chapter three in Kieran Egan's book, Imagination in Teaching and Learning, discusses the general characteristics of the imagination that occurs in our students between ages eight and fifteen. ... This could be something he expands more on in later chapters, but for now I feel that he made it all sound so simple to implement. ...

• Word Count: 2250
• Approx Pages: 9

This learner thinks in rhythms, sounds, and patterns. ... Creating songs to help them memorize things that were in their lesson or even allowing them to create a book report to a song melody. ... Musical learners obviously have the ability to produce and appreciate music, they think in rhythms, sounds, and patterns. ... They are sensitive to all sounds they hear, especially what they hear in t...

• Word Count: 2052
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In his book Pedagogy of the oppressed, he describes a new and targeted methodology of pedagogy. ... In his book, he stresses the importance of changing the mechanism of thought of the oppressor and the oppressed. ... It sounds as utopian and unrealistic as Paulo Freire's concept but this has been the same for the beginnings of all dramatic changes in society throughout history. ...

• Word Count: 1485
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

His premises (from his 1987 book, Cultural Literacy ) are: • In an anthropological perspective, the basic goal of education is acculturation, the transmission to our children of the specific information shared by the adults of the group or polis. ... But in missing an appropriate theory to organize the details, he has missed a great deal "and so bequeaths us a list (a practicum) in lieu of a sound practical theory. This book explains why we need to make some very specific educational changes in order to achieve a higher level of national literacy. ... That new insight is centra...

• Word Count: 2166
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When I would visit, he would let me go through his book shelves and enjoy texts from all subjects as much as I pleased. ... I never recall him once sounding like a robot who was reciting the only thing he knew from teaching the same subject for twenty plus years. ...

• Word Count: 1444
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The early experiences in reading were filled with questions about what word is pronounced what way and why certain arrangements of letters sounded the way they did. ... Rather than having the teachers spit useless interpretations of the book at us, we were given the task of interpreting it for ourselves. ...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

-(Plato's Republic, Book vii, 518) No scheme of human life was so important to Plato as education. ... If the character of the people is sound, laws are unnecessary; if unsound, laws are useless. ...

• Word Count: 2037
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Modern information technology is one of the most distinguished and interesting human inventions in history. Information technology has become a necessary social component is modern academic institutions. It plays a major role in today's academic society with substantial communication and knowledge ...

• Word Count: 2100
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate