To enable junior high school students to relate the processes of reading, writing, and thinking through deliberate instruction and extensive classroom practice, a skills extension project was devised to develop original materials linked to the content areas of English and social studies. Another phase of the project provided for inservice training…

This is the first of two parallel workbooks designed to accompany videotaped lectures on automotive repair for non-English-speaking adult students. Each of the 11 units is devoted to one aspect of auto mechanics (e.g., power tools, welding, painting). After listening to the lectures, the student is expected to complete exercises of the following…

This is the second of two parallel workbooks designed to accompany videotaped lectures on automotive repair for non-English-speaking adult students. Each of the 11 units is devoted to one aspect of auto mechanics (e.g., power tools, welding, painting). After listening to the lectures, the student is expected to complete exercises of the following…

This answer key provides correct responses to the questions and tasks posed in the exercises of the reading comprehension portion of a course in English as a second language for adult nursing aide students. The types of exercises covered include Cloze passages, comprehension questions, and vocabulary exercises. The key is useful both to the…

This is the second of three readers in a series designed to impart survival communications skills to students of English as a second language. Four units cover the following topics: (1) measuring in feet and inches, and measuring from a scale model (as a step toward furnishing an apartment); (2) how to use a bus system, by way of the example of…

This is the first of three readers in a series designed to impart survival language skills to students of English as a second language. Four units cover the following topics: (1) telling time; (2) learning about one's community, by way of the example of the imaginary island of Mahimahi; (3) reading menus and newspaper advertisements; and (4)…

This is the first of four volumes devoted to reading instruction, in a series of materials for teaching English as a second language to adult nursing aide students. The two units included deal principally with survival skills. The first unit is an introduction to Mahimahi Island, the imaginary quasi-Hawaiian locale used throughout the series. The…

This is the third of four volumes devoted to reading instruction, in a series of materials for teaching English as a second language to adult nursing aide students. The three units included deal with fundamentals in nursing: asepsis, measurement and abbreviation, and emergencies. Each unit consists of readings interspersed with Cloze passages,…

This is the second of four volumes devoted to reading instruction, in a series of materials for teaching English as a second language to adult nursing aide students. The three units included deal with fundamentals in nursing: nutrition, characteristics of the hospital staff, and anatomy. Each unit consists of readings interspersed with Cloze…

This learning module, one of a series of 127 performance-based teacher education learning packages focusing on specific professional competencies of vocational teachers, deals with the task of assisting students in achieving basic reading skills. Addressed in the individual learning experiences included in the module are the following topics: the…