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Teaching Reading to a Non-Reading Fifth Grade Boy
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This 4 page report discusses the processes involved in teaching reading in developmental context and the situation in which a teacher must deal with a fifth grade boy who is new to the school, without any background records. The child has verbal skills but cannot read. The report considers the ways in which a teacher would provide instruction in word recognition, comprehension, and vocabulary. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: BWread5.rtf

Teaching Reading To ESL Primary Students
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A 43 page paper. Sections in this paper include: an abstract; introduction, which includes demographic data; the importance of reading; reading development; teaching ESL students how to read in English; epilogue/summary; and lesson plans. Reading is a complex and sophisticated skill that poses many challenges for fluent-English speaking students and even more challenges for those students who are learning to speak English but lacking this skill, students face an impossible situation during and after school years. There are developmental considerations in teaching a child to read. Reading development begins with learning sounds and the rules of sounds. Research and theories are discussed along with recommendations from different experts. The 6 Appendices each present instruction in how to teach ESL students sounds or the Appendix presents a lesson plan for primary students. 2 illustrations reflecting data are included. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
Filename: PGeslrdn.rtf

Teaching Rounding Off Decimals
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A 3 page lessons plan that address the task of teaching how to round off decimals to the nearest tenth to fifth grade students. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khdecten.rtf

Teaching Science to Children
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A 4 page paper consisting of personal reflection on personal attitudes toward science and how they developed, followed by an assessment of personal learning style and ideas of how science should be taught to children. As warning not to operate under preconceptions, the paper includes mention of Dr. Ben Carson, largely ignored by his white teachers in the 1950s and 1960s but who has been the director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins since 1984. The paper praises the Montessori philosophy of "following the child." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: KSeduScience.rtf

Teaching Seniors About Strokes
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This 6 page paper offers a lesson plan for teaching seniors (over age 55) about strokes. The focus is identifying signs or symptoms of strokes, risk factors and preventing stokes. Data are included. Two handouts for the class are included. Bibliography lists sources.
Filename: PGstrkls.rtf

Teaching Short Story Writing within an Elementary School Framework.
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(4 pp) Today, we think of teaching writing as a process of "scaffolding'" or supporting children's language development in ways that broaden the writer's expressive possibilities, deepen his/her understanding of written language and text, and socialize the young writer into the role of literate adult. It is our responsibility and challenge to initiate prospective teachers, as well as ourselves, who may not have been taught writing in this way, into the problems and possibilities of teaching the writing process inventively and meaningfully. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BBshstER.doc

Teaching Special Needs Children
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A 3 page paper providing the writer's own personal philosophy of teaching special children. The paper describes particular strenghts and weaknesses that have an impact on the effectiveness of teaching special education, as well as personal observations of children's needs.
Filename: Persphil.wps

Teaching Strategies for Children with ADHD
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This 6 page paper provides an overview of potential strategies for teaching children with ADHD. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: MHADHEdu.rtf

Teaching Strategies For The ADHD Student
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A 4 page paper. Some of the teaching strategies discussed in five journal articles are reported. These strategies address enhancing student attention, increasing motivation, teaching social interaction skills, and the potential of technology. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PGadhdt.rtf

Teaching Strategies With Ethnic Groups
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A 16 page research paper. This essay begins with an illustration of the ratio of ethnic groups within the United States, then provides a definition of culture, race, and ethnic group because these are often vaguely defined. The writer then discusses the aims and needs for multicultural education, i.e., teaching different ethnic groups. The subjects of teaching about ethnic groups and strategies for teaching in diverse classrooms are also discussed with specific suggestions provided. 1 graph is included. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: PGeth6.msw