This book is the first in a series of historical resource guides developed by the Far West Center of Curriculum Adaptation Network for Bilingual Bicultural Education (CANBBE). This unit, for grades 1-9, focuses on Mexico's revolt against Spanish rule and highlights famous persons and events of the period. The materials can serve as a reference on…

This workbook in Italian for learning the numbers from one to ten is intended for use in a bilingual education setting. It is introduced and concluded by a song about playing "ring around the rosy" with numbers. Each paqe has a pen and ink drawing illustrating the number and a sentence about the picture and the number. (AMH)

This guide for music teachers in Spanish/English bilingual education is an attempt at gathering the basic musical vocabulary and presenting it in English and Spanish, and is adaptable to all levels. The units cover: forming an estudiantina, including cost ssand method of instruction; symbols of musical notation and definition of musical terms, in…

This volume originated with a desire to supplement the social science curriculum in grades 4 through 8 of the Chinese Bilingual Pilot Program. The volume thus consists of ten chapters, or stories, reflecting the life experiences of one Chinese American which may be used to stimulate discussion and study around the topic of the heritage of Chinese…

This is the first of a reading series designed primarily for students who are interested in continuing to learn Chinese in a Chinese bilingual program at the secondary level. It follows "The Golden Mountain Reading Series" developed for students in the elementary grades. Each lesson contains the following elements: vocabulary,…

This resource guide is designed as an aid to primary teachers of Mexican-American children. Besides including basic introductory material, the volume provides suggestions for parent involvement, classroom learning activity centers, and extensive resource materials. Classroom learning activity centers include: Art, Book, Communication, Discussion,…

The Children and Parents Interacting program is a federally funded Title VII project designed to create and promote greater Hispanic parent involvement in the educational system. The program represents a joint effort of Monroe and Dade County Public Schools and Florida International University's Center for Latino Education. The major thrust of the…

The text is designed primarily for students who are continuing in the Chinese Bilingual Pilot Program, ESEA Title VII, at the seventh grade level. This text was written because there is an insufficient amount of Chinese bilingual materials in the area of social studies at the junior high school level. The two emphases of the Multicultural Social…

This Teacher's Guide is intended to accompany Book One of the series which is designed primarily for students who are interested in continuing to learn Chinese in a Chinese bilingual pilot program at the secondary level. For each lesson, the guide includes the following: (1) an introduction to the writer; (2) a summary of the lesson; (3) a…

Learning resources for Portuguese-American bilingual education in reading development and social studies comprise this series. The two-fold purpose of the series is to improve reading skills of bilingual students and to increase appreciation of the Portuguese culture. The materials are designed for intermediate and secondary Portuguese-American…

The ten Chinese (Cantonese) short stories given in the student's reader are provided here, as well as a teacher's guide for their use. The English titles of the stories are: (1) "The Dictionary"; (2) "Come, Have Some Rice Noodles"; (3) "Where Shall We Go"; (4) "Beautiful Day"; (5) "The Little Dog's…

"The Mexican Experience" is a two-volume cultural resource for use at the secondary level. It may also be used at college and adult levels for introductory cultural awareness. It offers an instructional package on Mexican culture, stressing an art-architecture perspective with content ideas applicable to classes in Spanish, English as a…

This project-developed and tested aural-oral guide is designed especially for use at the preschool and kindergarten levels. It is designed for the teacher of Spanish-speaking children as a series of lesson plans or scripts around such topics as school, the family and pets. Vocabulary enrichment, syntactical drill patterns, and pronunciation and…

This resource guide for teachers of elementary Mohawk contains the following elements: (1) an outline of language learning levels, (2) a description of developmental traits of elementary school students, (3) an indication of elementary school curriculum areas that can be taught in Mohawk, and (4) a development of the language component of the…

This activity supplement is intended to accompany the Puedo Leer/I Can Read Teacher's Guide for initial reading in Spanish for bilingual children. The supplement, which consists of a teacher's guide and a set of charts on card stock, provides suggestions for a wide variety of pre-reading activities and approaches, which expand on the activities…