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ERIC Number: ED345922
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 145
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Color Your Classroom IV: A Reading Guide on the Secondary Level.
Mississippi Materials & Resource Center, Gulfport.
This curriculum guide, designed for use with secondary migrant students, contains activities in the reading areas of structural analysis, literal comprehension, inferential comprehension, vocabulary, and reading in the content areas. Within these four broad areas, activities are presented in the following specific skill areas: (1) hearing syllables; (2) using syllables; (3) root words; (4) compound words; (5) contractions; (6) prefixes; (7) suffixes; (8) main idea; (9) related details; (10) classification; (11) sequence; (12) conclusion; (13) following directions; (14) cause and effect; (15) generalization; (16) figurative language; (17) summarizing; (18) punctuation; (19) critical (creative) reading; (20) predicting outcomes; (21) sight words; (22) multiple meanings; (23) time and identity signal words; (24) word meanings; (25) context; (26) appropriate reading speeds; (27) following directions; (28) chart, graph, and map reading; (29) locational skills; and (30) organizing. The skills are correlated with the numerical coding of the Reading Skills List published by the Migrant Student Record Transfer System. Each activity page contains the skill name and number, the objective, directions, and follow-up activities. The pages are illustrated, with many suitable for reproduction for classroom use. The functional reading activities are presented in a high interest format, emphasizing games and "hands on" approaches. (KS)
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Learner; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: Department of Education, Washington, DC.; Mississippi State Dept. of Education, Jackson.
Authoring Institution: Mississippi Materials & Resource Center, Gulfport.
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A