Prepared for use in grade six, this language arts curriculum guide bases its reading strand on "Wings to Adventure" (Ginn 100), its English strand on "Roberts English Series" (Harcourt), its spelling strand on "Sound and Sense in Spelling" (Harcourt), and its handwriting strand on "Better Handwriting for…

The purpose of this project was to develop positive attitudes and knowledge of evaluation philosophy and techniques at the local building level. A set of procedures and instruments were devised through the efforts of the project staff to train participants to plan and carry out activities appropriate for assessing the particular education needs in…

The essay in this text cover major areas of interest, development, and scholarship in the teaching of oral language. Selection was made on the basis of what would best illustrate the principle of integration among the language arts and provide the most instructive classroom application of that principle. The essays are presented in seven sections.…

GRADES OR AGES: Junior high school. SUBJECT MATTER: A language development unit for reading, writing, speaking, and listening. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The introductory material explains the philosophy behind the unit and the way in which it should be taught. There are ten lesson plans and a short bibliography for teachers of books…

This volume of instructional materials in Czech contains 145 dictation exercises. The exercises, designed for use with students at the Defense Language Institute, are used primarily to develop aural comprehension in the target language. The exercises are presented in segments allowing for repetition and with pauses for transcription or…

This workbook provides written exercises integrated with the listening and production exercises in the "Manual of Articulatory Phonetics" (FL 002 882) These exercises are of five principal kinds--drawing of facial diagrams, transcription, matching of symbols, English phonemic transcription, and English vowel phonemes. Materials in the workbook are…

This professional book is addressed to prospective and experienced teachers of language arts at the elementary school level. The authors argue that creative communication, the goal of the language arts, is attained best when the teacher nurtures each child's creative potential at the same time that he teaches essential linguistic skills. The book…

The Cooperative Primary Tests were administered to 4,966 pupils in grade 2 of Vancouver schools in 1972 and results were compared with those of students in grade 2 in 1969. The battery included six tests. Scores on the first, a practice test, were not recorded. The listening, word analysis, and reading tests were used for this survey. Use of the…

To determine the effect on simultaneous aural-visual training on the silent reading ability of 72 educationally disadvantaged black college freshmen, three different means of training were investigated. One experimental group (aural-visual) had a simultaneous reading-listening type of training via individual listening headsets with the visual…

This teaching guide, which is the framework for the Conrad Area District (Delaware) Language Arts Program, includes for the third and fourth grades the areas of listening, speaking, reading, spelling, and writing. It has priority over the commercial guides due to its highly sequential development, its emphasis on individualization of instruction,…

This teaching guide, which is the framework for the Conrad Area District (Delaware) Language Arts Program, includes for the fifth and sixth grades the areas of listening, speaking, reading, spelling, and writing. It has priority over the commercial guides due to its highly sequential development, its emphasis on individualization of instruction,…

In the spring of 1971, an initial version of a program to teach selected prereading skills was tried out in three kindergartens. The three visual skills to be taught by the program were attending to letter order, letter orientation, and word detail. The sound skills to be taught were sound matching and sound blending. The program materials for…

Describes a four-step approach to help students evaluate the news reports that they hear and read. (RL)

The article compares the use of pattern drills to contextualized practice and suggests that although the second is a more personally meaningful approach, the pattern drills can provide a means through which the operations of many language features will be made more apparent to the learner. (NCR)

Equivalent forms of listening comprehension, oral reading, and oral reading comprehension tasks in (1) standard English, (2) black English, standard orthography, and (3) black English, nonstandard orthography were administered to black, inner-city children. Subjects scored highest on black English, standard orthography and lowest on black English,…