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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 Comprehension (Literal, Interpretative, Critical, and Creative)

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Unless students understand the words they read, they lose interest in reading. Comprehension is critical for persons to become lifetime readers. This text includes the rationale and strategies for teaching literal, interpretative, critical, and creative comprehension. Pupils not only learn to use the comprehension skills as they read, but they also learn to identify questions that test their knowledge of these skills. Comprehension is taught as pupils listen or read orally and silently. Teachers learn the importance of moving beyond teaching only literal comprehension. Even in the lower grade levels, students can learn to infer, become a critic, and create as they read—if teachers teach them these important skills.