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Peer reviewedGifford, Ann Porter – Reading Improvement, 2002
Suggests there are many ways to assess students' progress in understanding the elements of a story. Discusses how to stimulate students' ability to analyze how adding another character, changing the setting or twisting the plot can create new and interesting versions of a the common folktale, "The Three Little Pigs." Includes a 37-item annotated…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Education, Folk Culture, Instructional Improvement
Peer reviewedRichardson, Maurine V.; Miller, Margaret B. – Reading Improvement, 2001
Suggests a possibility of resolving the problem of reading motivation for some students. Considers that children and adults like to read about familiar places such as their home state with people and settings that they know about written by authors who live or have lived in that state. Includes a list of 50 books (arranged by state) for the upper…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction, Reading Instruction, Reading Material Selection
Peer reviewedWillems, Arnold L.; Willems, Wanda L. – Reading Improvement, 1979
Offers a rationale for the practice of elementary school teachers reading frequently to their students and discusses guidelines for book selection and for planning read-aloud sessions. Includes a bibliography of read-aloud books. (FL)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Books, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedLehman, Barbara A.; Crook, Patricia R. – Reading Improvement, 1989
Provides five lesson plans on the United States Constitution, which have students read multiple tradebooks in order to synthesize information from several sources in preparation for written or oral reports. Provides a 13-item annotated bibliography of tradebooks about the Constitution. (RS)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Constitutional History, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing
Peer reviewedDarkatsh, Manuel – Reading Improvement, 1982
Annotates 16 children's books that have as their main thrust the development of children's visual awareness through puzzles, pictures, and games. (FL)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
