The focus of this journal edition is remedial writing instruction in high school and college. Articles in the journal are: "The Remedial Student is Different," by Karl K. Taylor; "Writing Apprehension: (I) Combating Fear of Failure," by Donna K. Gorrell; "Writing Apprehension: (II) Where Does Fear of Writing Come…

This paper describes the instructional components of the Bilingual Access Program (BAP) at Elgin Illinois Community College, a federally funded 5-year project established to supplement regular vocational programs as a means to provide language training to limited English-speaking adults so that they leave with additional employable skills related…

BECAUSE CHILDREN OFTEN CONCENTRATE ONLY ON RHYME AND RHYTHM WHEN WRITING POETRY, AN EIGHTH-GRADE CLASS WAS INTRODUCED TO THE USE OF SPECIFIC WORDS, SOUNDS, IMAGERY, AND CONTENT. THE STUDENTS READ VARIOUS MODERN POETS AND TOOK A "FIELD TRIP OF THE SENSES," VISITING ZOOS AND MUSEUMS TO FIND SUBJECTS FOR POEMS. WRITING POEMS MODELED AFTER…

Based on the reports of forty-four experienced part time teachers, this pamphlet examines the overall situation in the evening institutes in the West and East Ridings of Yorkshire. Subjects covered include: subject and special problems, teaching aims, kind of students, difficulties, effective teaching, and lessons learned by teachers. The age…

Supplementing language arts for the educable mentally handicapped, the guide provides a representative unit on newspapers with core area activities, vocabulary, and 33 lesson plans. Sub-topics include community orientation, occupations, leisure time and recreation, weather, local history, money management, homemaking and home repair,…

Intended for teachers, educators, and specialists who are interested in the problems of learning disabilities, the text presents principles and practices necessary in the clinical teaching approach to children with learning disabilities. Areas considered include learning disabilities in general, the brain and learning, and special education and…

In this collection, numerous professional writers who have worked with students in public school classrooms offer ideas for helping students learn to write creatively. The ideas are grouped into six major sections: "Teaching Writing,""Writing Ideas" (gimmicks, letters and dialogues, writing from observation, writing and literature), "Drama, Film,…

This document describes the development of an instrument to identify and diagnose developmental deficits at age 5 and the planning of a deficit centered training curriculum to prevent learning disabilities. An evaluation of the effectiveness of this curriculum, based on measures of the children's developmental growth and their academic achievement…

Designed for elementary/secondary teachers working either with segregated Alaska Native classes (i.e., the Rural Transition Center and Native Core) or those working with integrated classes in either urban or rural areas, this guide presents a variety of instructional information. Presenting suggestions, research, comments, activities, etc., this…

A product of a conference sponsored by the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education for classroom teachers from national associations representing seven academic areas, the book explores the various relationships between traditional academic disciplines and career education concepts. The book is designed to motivate teachers to include…

Introductory sections of these guidelines give the point of view and goals of bilingual-bicultural education. Definitions of some terms commonly used in this area follow. A section on program organization gives guidelines for assessment, staff, staff development, instruction, methodology, instructional materials, community involvement and…

Parents and professional educators agree that reading competence is a necessary prerequisite for successful achievement in nearly all other aspects of the elementary and secondary school curriculum. Successful school achievement is also seen as necessary for later occupational and economic achievement. It is commonly believed that reading failure…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether lower-class students would exhibit greater retention of reading vocabulary with a language experience approach to reading than with a basal text approach. Sixty low socioeconomic level students from the seven first grades of one elementary school in a small South Carolina town were randomly…

The problem of this conference panel was to develop means (strategies, materials, techniques) by which children of cultural and linguistic minority groups can learn to read and communicate effectively in English as well as in the language or dialect of their respective group. The six areas of approach, as outlined in this panel report, are:…

This course offers students the opportunity to read and listen to 19th and 20th century Spanish short stories as well as moral, literary, and satirical fables of different epochs. (Several of the fables are included.) The student is thus exposed to new vocabulary and to the literary form of the short story. The authors represented here belong to…