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| English In Education | 9 |
Author
| Barnes, Douglas | 1 |
| Blackie, Penny | 1 |
| Cate, Dick | 1 |
| Doolan, Moira | 1 |
| Fawcus, Winifred | 1 |
| Fox, Caroline | 1 |
| Grugeon, Elizabeth | 1 |
| Morris, Ronald | 1 |
| Phillips, Terry | 1 |
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Peer reviewedFawcus, Winifred – English In Education, 1971
Author suggests that childrens books would be more useful to their readers if they were more childlike in language and concept, thereby providing food for non-logical as well as logical thought. (JB)
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Early Childhood Education, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedFox, Caroline – English In Education, 1971
Article relates the findings of a 1971 National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) study of a series of textbooks, which found the situation unsatisfactory. Author requests that more study be done on the subject. (JB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Problems, English Education, Humanities Instruction
Peer reviewedGrugeon, Elizabeth – English In Education, 1971
Author feels that, in the period between the child beginning to master the skill of reading and his becoming a confident, independent reader, it is important for the teacher to help in the selection of books for him. (Author/JB)
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Books, Childrens Literature, Language Experience Approach
Peer reviewedDoolan, Moira; And Others – English In Education, 1971
Article explains series of programs by British Broadcasting Corporation, designed to help slow readers, by presenting exciting material, read aloud, while children read along in class, thereby enabling the children to make the connection between the characters on the page and the excitement of the story being read. (JB)
Descriptors: Educational Radio, English Education, Reading Development, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedBlackie, Penny – English In Education, 1971
Author describes attempts to encourage students to ask questions in class, in the belief that the more generally accepted Socratic Method, in which the teacher asks the questions, is less effective. (JB)
Descriptors: English Education, English Instruction, Learning Processes, Student Behavior
Peer reviewedCate, Dick – English In Education, 1971
Author discusses the novel A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and its relationship to our uses of fantasy in everyday life. (JB)
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Identification (Psychology), Imagination
Peer reviewedMorris, Ronald – English In Education, 1971
Article shows that learning to read is one of the first major challenges with which schools confront children. To the extent that a child does not also learn how to learn, or learn to develop a positive view of himself as a learner, learning to read has not been educative. (Author/JB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Reading, Early Childhood Education, Language Arts
Peer reviewedPhillips, Terry – English In Education, 1971
Author explains that children feel the meaning of some poems in relation to their own experiences, rather than having a direct understanding of the situations presented in the poems, and that by reaching an understanding of these experiences, children become able to interpret the poems on a more mature level. (JB)
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Childhood Interests, Content Analysis, Poetry
Peer reviewedBarnes, Douglas; And Others – English In Education, 1971
Article examines some of the processes by which a group of pupils work together to create a group response which will be acceptable to all of them, in the course of this bringing their private responses to a sharper focus. (Author)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Group Activities, Group Discussion, Literary Criticism
