Office of English Language Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, United States Department of State, Washington, D.C. — 67 p., ill.
Compiled by Anna Maria Malkoç and Ruth G. Montalván.
Bright Ideas: A Teacher’s Resource Manual offers twenty-six practical teaching strategies and techniques that originally appeared in Ideas Plus, a special series of publications produced by the National Council of Teachers of English. These contributions come from instructors of English in elementary, junior, and senior high schools and colleges throughout the United States of America. Instructional methods discussed in the book focus on techniques for teaching listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
A Dream House. A Journal-Writing Pot of Gold. Adopt-a-Word. Contrasting Moods. Describe. That Face. Descriptive Portraits. How to Beat Page Fright. Natural Writing—Three Ways. Noun Poetry. Novel Dialogue. Obtaining an Honest Writing Sample. One, Two, Three—Testing. Poetry à la Emily Dickinson. Portraits in Poetry. Quote for the Day. Search for Identity; Or, What’s in a Name? Sentence Combining as a Prereading Activity. Speaking Precisely. Take This Word and Use It. Teaching Inferential Thinking. Tell-and-Show Dictionary. Ten Little Letters Standing in a Row. The Door. Using Pictures to Teach Poetry. Write Your Way Out of This One. Writing for an Audience.