Since the project evaluation for the last years indicated that pupil achievement and growth were significant, the corrective program in reading, language arts, and mathematics operated with Title 1, 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, and State Act for Disadvantaged Children funding was continued during the 1973-74 school year in seven…

Adaptable to all age levels and to various areas of the language arts curriculum, the activities suggested in this book are examples of the types of experiences that teachers have found interesting and exciting for children and that call for involvement on the part of the children. The activities have been used successfully by teachers in…

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…

This study showed the effectiveness of two parent education programs designed to increase young children's sustained attention to verbal stimuli. Forty 18- to 24-month-old children and their mothers served as subjects under three different conditions: Full Treatment Program of home training, home visits, group meetings for mothers, and curriculum…

The purpose of this study was to determine and to interpret the effect of two differing approaches to reading instruction on the self-social concepts of first grade children. The concepts analyzed were self-esteem; social interest; individuation; complexity; realism; identifications with mother, father, teacher, and friend; and preferences for…

Vocabulary diversity is a measure either of the language spoken within a fixed time period or of the total utterances, sentences, or words. To measure children's language development as revealed by the diversity of their spoken expression, a comparison was made of the vocabulary of 15 first-grade children of average ability, of first-grade primers…

Designed for teachers and prospective teachers of English, this book briefly discusses the theoretical constructs of humanistic approaches to each aspect of English education in the secondary school and illustrates practical designs for humanistic learning which teach each aspect of the language arts and which are intended to draw the methods…

A curriculum on the language arts was designed especially for hearing-impaired students for use with computer-assisted instruction (CAI). Basically the third-grade level is approximated in the curriculum which is designed as a supplementary but self-contained set of lessons. There are 214 lessons of 20-30 exercises each, approximately sufficient…

Foreign workers, particularly those who have been in Austria for a long time, are already included in training and other educational programs promoted by the labour market administration. Regulated by a 1972 decree of the Federal Ministry of Social Administration, vocational training of foreign workers is steadily gaining in importance in Austria,…

It is the United Kingdom policy that all children, whatever their background, should have equal educational opportunity. School attendance is compulsory for all children and is enforced; educational responsibility rests largely with local authorities. So far as the education of immigrants is concerned, government objectives have been to promote a…

The Region 1 Right-to-Read Project was initiated in seven Texas school districts in 1972-73 and was continued in the 1973-74 school year. All seven districts decided to use a bilingual Spanish-English reading approach beginning at the kindergarten level. In September 1973 the program was expanded to include first grade students who were in the…

The over-all purpose of this research project was to improve teacher efficiency in the undergraduate special education program at Southern Connecticut State College through the training of prospective teachers in the following three areas: interpersonal skills, attitudes and values toward minority groups, and clinical teaching approaches for…

Designed to assess analytically the quality of children's fictional stories, this study is composed of a set of twelve scales: structure, word usage, characterization, setting, point of view, conversation, detail, appeals to senses, values, ending, sentence structure, and situation. Each scale is scored 0, 1, or 2, with the highest possible score…

Designed to assess the quality of children's narrative compositions, the Glazer Narrative Composition Scale (GNCS) consists of eighteen scales outlined under plot, theme, setting, characterization, and style. Each scale is scored 1, 2, or 3, depending on how much of the scale element is present in the narrative, with the highest possible score…

In recent years there has been increasing interest in the effects of bilingualism on cognitive growth and on the bilingual's attitude toward himself and his 2 language communities. One of the most widely quoted studies on bilingualism is that of Peal and Lambert (1962) who dealt with the relation between intelligence, attitude, and achievement in…