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Teaching Vocabulary (Eight Methods of Instruction) and Teaching Letter Names and Sounds

Teaching Vocabulary and Teaching Letter Names and Sounds

Choosing among eight different methods to introduce vocabulary allows teachers to develop students’ excellent visual and auditory discrimination, their ability to detect word parts, and identify syllables.

Teaching Manuscript and Cursive Penmanship Skills

As pupils learn to spell, write legibly and rapidly what they read, and proof their work, their reading levels increase and they use their ability to express themselves in writing more frequently.

Teaching Comprehension (Literal, Interpretative, Critical, and Creative)

Unless students understand the words they read, they lose interest in reading. Comprehension is critical for persons to become lifetime readers.

Teaching Critical Thinking and Specialized Study Skills

Critical thinking and specialized study skills assist a reader to obtain information more readily and to transfer the information so it makes sense and is used to serve meaningful purposes identified by the learner.

Teaching Writing (Creative and Expository) Skills, Book 1

Teaching Writing, Book 1, includes 36 sets of directives to teach at least 120 lessons. The teacher will be able to teach many writing skills with the use of this text.

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Teaching Manuscript and Cursive Penmanship Skills

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As pupils learn to spell, write legibly and rapidly what they read, and proof their work, their reading levels increase and they use their ability to express themselves in writing more frequently. From the exercises found in Teaching Manuscript and Cursive Penmanship Skills, students learn to evaluate the quality of their writing. They learn to proof and correct their writing. Rate building practices are important in writing and are included in penmanship instruction.

Not only can teachers find directives for teaching penmanship and proofing skills, but they also learn to develop pupils' visual sequential memory as they teach them to write.

This text includes directives for both manuscript and cursive handwriting along with directives for teaching the necessary prerequisite behaviors, such as the correct writing posture, how to hold a pencil, how to identify the lines on the paper for practice, and how to place the paper on the desk correctly.