This paper examines the relationship between linguistic and communicative competence in terms of the student's acquisition of French as a foreign language and the interface of testing for each competence in the context of achievement testing. Reaching an acceptable level of communicative competence requires practice and guidance in understanding…

A training program designed to teach high school students to be specific in their writing is described in this booklet. The first section of the booklet explains the three stages of the program: (1) daily practice in translating a "telling" sentence into a "showing" paragraph; (2) application of "showing" writing to…

Time management may be the most important study skill. The effects of a specific teaching technique designed to alter the time management skills of undergraduate students in a voluntary study skills course were assessed. Of the 95 subjects, 34 were enrolled in the course and were exposed to time management instruction, 31 were future course…

This unit focuses on heroes and heroines, and, specifically, on elementary school pupils' perceptions of heroes and heroines. Heroes and heroines are defined as people whose qualities are admired by fellow members of a social group. Because this unit deals with heroes and heroines on a global level, it is stressed that heroic qualities are…

This document contains an instructional booklet for teachers and a book of spiritmaster handouts for use by students in fifth and sixth grade social studies programs on law-related education. The general objective of the unit is to help elementary school pupils understand and deal successfully with a variety of rules, responsibilities, and laws.…

This document contains an instructional booklet on rules for use by social studies classroom teachers in grades two and three as they develop and implement a law-related education program. It also contains spiritmaster handouts for use by students. Objectives of the unit include helping primary school pupils clarify their feelings and beliefs…

The instructional materials described here are designed for teachers and administrators who are interested in establishing an individually guided educational program at the elementary school level. The topics addressed are individualized instruction and methods of planning and implementing such a program. The goal of the program is to develop…

The programed materials for inservice teacher education described in this document are designed to make the teacher think about questioning techniques and learn some of the principles of good questioning procedures. The program is designed as a home study course. This descriptive report provides further information on the purposes and content of…

Four scales developed by Marion Monroe for recording, describing, analyzing, and rating children's oral language skills are described and presented in this paper. The skills assessed by the scales are first described as follows: (1) how a child thinks, as revealed by the quality of ideas; (2) how a child thinks, as revealed by definition of words;…

Seven hundred and fifty compositions, randomly selected from National Assessment of Educational Progress essays written by 9-, 13- and 17-year-olds, were analyzed in a study of the skills that go into the writing of a good composition. The essays were first rated as high, medium, or low in quality. A total of 43 different indices reported or…

Guidelines are presented to aid junior high and high school social studies classroom teachers in developing and implementing history programs. Designed primarily for teachers in Nova Scotia, the guidelines can also help teachers in other locations develop basic history programs for grades seven through 12. The document is presented in seven…

The purpose of this document is to explore some strategies which may be helpful to new projects during their planning and implementation years. Each chapter of the document is composed of a separate project description. Topics discussed in this paper include: 1) the adaptation of educational research to improve elementary reading comprehension; 2)…

Intended for teachers of preschool and kindergarten children, this manual is designed to share effective practices and products that have been either developed or refined by pre-elementary Right to Read programs. The first section of the manual discusses a variety of activities that focus on cognitive, language, personal/social, and motor…

Social studies teachers face pressures from demands for greater emphasis in the areas of multicultural aspects of the world population, expansive technological changes, citizenship and moral education, and accountability for basic competence. The latter demand offers an opportunity to return to the broad perspective of teaching students not "what…

This article discusses the potential for creative language production through poetry writing in the foreign language class. Specific techniques and activities which stimulate creative thinking, speaking, and writing in the foreign language are presented. The techniques are (1) collaboration poem-wishes; (2) comparison poems; (3) metaphor poems;…