One aspect of a balanced reading program is thinking activities that involve analytic, creative, critical and other higher level behaviors relative to reading selections. The following questions discussed in the paper are meant to be helpful as guidelines for principals in purchasing materials, supervising teachers, and evaluating the effects of…

Certain teaching performances needed to elicit and reinforce specific linguistic performances from the students fall under the categories of speaking a variety of standard English, reading, spelling, vocabulary, and grammatical structures and writing. As a model of linguistic usage, the teacher must speak a standard variety of English, build on…