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 PUBLISHED SCHOLARSHIP:  BOOKS

 

“Picture Writing, Food Groups Interactive Bulletin Board, Reading Any Map, Garden Cameras, Meet a Tree, Catalog Puppets, Apartment Shopping.” In Short, Deborah J., Ed.  New Ways in Teaching English at the Secondary Level.  Alexandria, VA: TESOL, 1999.

 

“Menus, Shopping for Furniture, Comic Strip Sequencing, Jigsaw Puzzle Writing.”  In L. Schinke- Llano & R. Rauff (Eds.), New Ways in Teaching Young Children.  Alexandria, VA: TESOL, 1996.

 

Interactive Bulletin Boards as Teaching Tools.  Washington D.C.: National Education Association, 1989.

 

PUBLISHED SCHOLARSHIP:  JOURNAL ARTICLES

 

“Garden Planning: Finding Meaningful Memories.” Growing Ideas. National Gardening  Association’s Journal of Garden-Based Learning, (April, 1999.)

 

 “Scooters and Acceleration.” Science Scope. (March, 1999).

 

“Growing Our Own Outdoor Science Lab.”  Science Scope.  (March, 1997).

 

“Working with Mainstreamed Classroom Teachers and their ESL Students.”  TESOL Matters.  (June/July 1997): 13.

 

"Working with Mainstreamed Classroom Teachers."  Secondary Education Interest Section Newsletter of TESOL.  (1995). 

 

"Working with Mainstreamed Classroom Teachers."  Elementary Education Interest Section  Newsletter of TESOL (1995).

 

"Creative Freedom Improves Research Results." Christian Educators Journal.  (February/March, 1990).

 

"The Takeover: Making the Classroom Yours."  Christian Educators  Journal. (October- November, 1989).

 

Photo Series on Cooperative Learning.  Language Arts. (Feb 1988).

 

"Newspapers Facilitate Content Area Learning: Social Studies." (with James Wells and Sharon Kossack).  Journal of Reading. (December 1987).

 

"What's Right with Small Christian Schools?" (with Elaine Brouwer).  Christian Educators Journal. (Oct-Nov 1987).

 

"Student-Centered Activities: Alternatives to Textbooks." Christian Educators Journal. (Feb-Mar 1987).

 

"Planning to Teach Reality - Integrated by God's Word." Christian Educators Journal. (Apr-May 1987).

 

"Readability and the Bible: Which Version for Your Students?"  (with Dr. James Worthington.)  hristian Educators Journal.  (Dec 1985-Jan 1986).

 

"ESL in the Church."  Innovations. (Sept 1984).

 

"The Readability of Managerial Accounting Textbooks." Teaching English in the Two-Year College. (Winter 1984).

 

"Bookmaking for Beginning ESL Students." TESOL Newsletter.  (Feb. 1984).

 

"Talking During Story-Time?  Of Course!"  The Reading Teacher. (May 1983).

 

Educational Resource Informational Clearinghouse (ERIC) Published in Full. "Fairy Tales and Fantasy:  Bridges to Literature --Using Fairy Tales and Fantasy to Motivate the Reluctant Reader."  Document ED 280 061 (1987).

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

[Review of  America: The Early Years; and America: After Independence.] by Chamot, Anna and  Michael O’Malley.]  TESOL Quarterly  Vol. 23, No. 1 (March 1989): 133-134.

 

[Review of Why Didn't I Think of That? by Williams and Verner.] Middle School Journal.  (November, 1988).

 

[Review of Write!]   TESOL Newsletter. (Oct 1985).

 

[Review of Turning Points.] for Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1988.

 

[Review of New Horizons in English. New Edition]  for Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1989.

 

[Review of New Horizons in English and English for a Changing World.] for Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1983.

 

VIDEO

 

"Teaching the Bible to New English Speakers."  A 3-hour training video for ESL teachers/tutors. University Presbyterian Church, Seattle, WA, 1986.

 

TRAINING MANUALS/HANDBOOKS

 

Taking Your Class Outside: A Guide to Outdoor Education, 2000

 

Using the Newspaper as a Teaching Tool, 2000

 

Garden Science Activities.  Teacher Handbook, Grades K-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8.  1993.

 

Bible Studies for New English Speakers: A Resource Book for International and Refugee Ministries.  Seattle: Brim Press, 1982, 1986. (Also: workbook and 3-hour training video)

 

"Summer Spelling Fun."  Booklets for Grades 3,4,5,6.  Northshore School District, 1982.

 

"A Handbook for Using the Newspaper in the Eighth Grade Classroom."  Estacado Jr. High School, Plainview TX, 1981.

 

"What We've Learned the Hard Way: Language Development Grades 6-12" (with David Adcock.)  Region XVII Education Service Center, Lubbock, TX, 1980.

 

INTEGRATED CURRICULUM UNITS

 

It’s a Jungle…” Rain Forest Alert, 2000.

 

Reaching for the Torch: The Growth of Women’s Rights in America, 2000.

 

In My Lifetime, 1999.

 

The Weather Guide. (Newspapers in Education, Dayton Daily News.) 1999.

 

Winter Olympics, 1998.

 

OTHER

 

Bible Chants I (2006).

 

Gospel Chants (2005).

 

“Best Birthday Books.”  Creating Keepsakes (June, 2001).

 

“Organizing Classroom Activities to Meet Diverse Students’ Learning Needs.” Doctoral Dissertation, 1999.

 

 “Blue Ribbon National School of Excellence” Report.  Yellow Springs High School, 1997.


“The Rating of Sixth Grade Student Writing by Four Rater Types:  Teachers, Peers, Parents, and Businessmen.”  Master’s Thesis, 1983.

 

Grade One Math Criterion-Referenced Test.  Northshore School District, Bothell, WA, 1982.

 

"Learning To Spell:  What Recent Research Tells Us." For district elementary school principals.  Northshore School District, Bothell, WA, 1982.

 

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