Recognizing that behavioral objectives do not constitute a reading program but rather are instruments by which teachers may continually evaluate students' progress, determine their instructional needs, develop programs to meet those needs, and assess the results of those programs, this manual provides suggested behavioral objectives for four major…

This document lists language arts skills that average children should be expected to acquire at each grade level from one through six. For each grade, the skills are listed in three major categories: reading skills (word recognition, comprehension strategies, critical reading, and study skills); written communication (writing and language skills);…

This document, third in a series of 11 subvolumes of a handbook prepared to provide training for educational research and development personnel in the development of instructional materials, deals with the task of sequencing and grouping criterion behaviors. Document content is arranged according to the steps involved in performing the task. This…

The pamphlet is an adaptation of social studies objectives for 17-year-olds and adults developed in 1974 by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. It is to be used by schools in Kansas as a guideline in evaluating and developing local social studies programs. Its contents have not been field tested. The objectives are presented as…

Designed for use by local schools in developing language arts programs, this guide is organized into eight sections. An introductory section contains a rationale for language arts in the school program, discussions of the characteristics of a good language arts program and of student language rights, lists of general communication goals for…

Developed by professional educational staff, the curriculum of developmentally sequenced objectives for preschoolers (SOP) is designed for use in infant stimulation programs, for preschool training for all levels of retardation, with severely and profoundly retarded school age children, and for trainable and educable children during the earlier…