Reading in Consumer and Homemaking Education Programs: A Guide for Reinforcing Basic Skills. Vocational Home Economics Education.

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New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. Div. of Vocational Education.

Teachers; Practitioners

Basic Skills; Behavioral Objectives; Child Development; Clothing Instruction; Consumer Education; Family Relationship; Foods Instruction; Fused Curriculum; Home Furnishings; Housing; Learning Activities; Lesson Plans; Nutrition Instruction; Occupational Home Economics; Reading Skills; Secondary Education; Statewide Planning; Textiles Instruction

This guide is intended to assist home economics teachers in designing lessons and activities that will reinforce reading skills in consumer and homemaking education programs. Included in the guide are a total of 60 mini-lessons on the following areas of home economics: child development; family relationships; foods and nutrition; consumer education; housing, home furnishings, and equipment; and clothing and textiles. Each activity contains some or all of the following: content area, level of difficulty, home economics content objective, reading objective, learning activity, and source. An appendix contains the answers to all the activities. Also included is a matrix that details (1) the number(s) of the learning activities in which a particular reading skill is reinforced and (2) whether a given reading skill is required to pass the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test. (MN)

1988

ED288072