This publication is one of a series designed to inform and assist those responsible for foreign language instruction, including teachers, administrators, supervisors, and those engaged in teacher education. The complete series serves as a curriculum guide. The format of the series is such that it can be revised so as to keep materials current.…

The Ypsilanti Curriculum Demonstration Project's language training curriculum for three- and four-year old disadvantaged children, using the Bereiter Engelmann program, is provided. The purpose of the curriculum is to effect a behavior change in the child to enable him to achieve in the traditional education environment. Emphasis is given to the…

A learning program centered around the individual student developed for teaching Chinese is described. The program includes two tracks, a humanities track and a specialist track, to meet the needs of different students. The use of peer teaching is explained. (RM)

The guide describes the components of a comprehensive infant program for hearing impaired children 0-3 years of age and their parents. Primary focus is upon a home-centered, parent-guided, natural language approach to learning, based upon the child's daily activities. An interdisciplinary professional staff guides the parents in the individually…

This curriculum guide is designed for use in the first part of a 2-year audiolingual language program by French, Spanish, German, and Russian teachers, department supervisors and outside evaluators. The primary objective of the Language Usage course is to enable the learner to make his basic needs known to native speakers of the target language.…

This revised collection contains 91 objectives and evaluations for kindergarten through grade 12. Objectives appear in four sections: (1) Literal Comprehension, (2) Interpretation, (3) Vocabulary and Word Meaning, and (4) Comprehension of Non-written Materials. In Literal Comprehension the objectives contain location of specific information and…

This revised collection of 249 objectives and related evaluation items for kindergarten through twelfth grades is organized into two sections: (1) Grammatical Form, and (2) Sentence Analysis. This text departs from many traditional grammar materials by having parts of speech featured in two sections: (1) Form and word meaning (including comparison…

Performance objectives for the foreign language curriculum in Michigan schools are presented in draft form. Objectives are outlined for stages A (beginning) through D (advanced). The remainder of the volume deals with stage A. It provides a detailed description of the minimum behavioral objectives for basic language skills at the end of the…

This is the first revision of this collection for students in grades kindergarten through high school. The Listening section contains 31 objectives with one or more evaluation items in the following major categories: (1) Affective Listening, (2) Comprehension and Interpretation, and (3) Analytical Listening and Critical Listening. Oral Expression…

This revised collection is designed for students from kindergarten through high school contains 78 objectives in the following major categories: (1) individual word forms, (2) multiple word forms, (3) division of the form, and (4) history of the form. The individual word form is organized into four sections dealing with changes occurring within…

This guide delineates the scope and sequence of Spanish instruction in both junior and senior high schools indicating instructional goals in terms of behavioral objectives. Following a review of the Bloomington, Minnesota, school of philosophy and a discussion of the design of the foreign language behavioral objectives in the guide, the manual…

This revised collection is presented in a new format. Each objective consists of stating the general objective, giving directions, sample items, and answers. Objectives covering a wide range of writing problems are included emphasizing the improvement of clarity in expression. The text is divided into two categories: Mechanics and Usage. There are…

This collection is composed of 16 objectives and evaluation items for Junior High School Literature, grades 7-9. It includes objectives on poetry and the novel. Each objective contains three elements: (1) the objective, (2) measurement items, and (3) means for judging the adequacy of the student response. Each objective is stated in operational…

The purpose of this revised collection is to help prepare students in kindergarten through high school to do better work in all subjects. Usually one sample item is included for each objective, and it can be simplified or sophisticated according to any age group. This material is divided into two sections: (1) Reference Skills, and (2) Study…

There are 127 basic composition objectives in this revised collection for use in kindergarten through high school. At least one evaluation per objective is given. The objectives are organized as follows: (1) Story Writing which covers fanciful and realistic types such as: myths, fable, short story, fiction, and writing dialogue; (2) Letters both…