This programmed workbook is designed for use with the introductory reader for the beginning audiolingual Latin course. The workbook allows the student to work without direct teacher aid, to work and review at his own speed, to correct answers immediately, and to pursue good independent study habits. Like the reader, the workbook is structured by…

This is a report on the first year of a pilot program for building reading comprehension in all subject areas, conducted in six school districts located in a rural area near Phoenix, Arizona, during the school year 1972-1973. Over 50 percent of the high school students were bilingual or bi-cultural. In order to remedy reading retardation, teachers…

The project purpose was to develop and field test a program of instruction for young deaf children which could be used in existing classrooms. The main program contained two areas of instruction in written language: verb vocabulary at a high level of generalization and sentence structure. The program materials were field tested with 78 children in…

This study--a follow-up to one conducted by Giles in 1965-- compared the written compositions of fourth grade pupils who had been in Project Head Start in the summer of 1965 with those of comparable pupils not in the program to determine possible differences in their written language development. Seventy Negro students were divided by sex and…

Behavioral objectives for various skill areas related to reading are listed for eleven levels (A through K). Each level deals with seven or eight skill areas, and each area has from one to 12 objectives with specific examples given for each objective. The skills for the various levels are visual discrimination, auditory discrimination, literal…

This study was concerned with whether or not supplementary work in the subskill areas of comprehension would increase the overall comprehension level of pupils more than supplementary work with vocabulary development exercise. Sixth-six fourth grade pupils in a middle-class suburban community in central New Jersey were selected as subjects. A…

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…

Supplementary instructional materials developed by master teachers for use in foreign language classrooms are compiled in this booklet. The materials are intended for teachers of French, German, Spanish, and FLES. A wide variety of activities focusing on vocabulary development, grammar, conversational skills, and classroom games is included. (RL)

Instructional objectives of the Dade County Public Schools Quinmester Program in German for use with "Lernen Wir Deutsch: Part 1" focus on the development of basic skills through the use of short dialogues and structured exercises. The contents of this guide focus on: (1) course description, (2) broad goals and performance objectives,…

Instructional objectives of the Dade County Public Schools Quinmester Program in German for use with "Lernen Wir Deutsch: Part 2" focus on development of basic skills through the use of short dialogues and structured exercises. The grammar of the course includes the study of nouns, pronouns, and verbs. Possessive determiners are…

Instructional objectives of the Dade County Public Schools Quinmester Program in intermediate Spanish focus on the development of reading skills and mastery of various grammatical items. They include the article "lo," the plueperfect, and the subjunctive. This guide contains: (1) course description, (2) broad goals and performance…

Several hundred military terms in Russian are contained in this pamphlet. Terms pertaining to army, navy, and air force weaponry and procedures are presented on aural comprehension enrichment word cards with English translations on the reverse side. (RL)

Several hundred military terms in Vietnamese are contained in this pamphlet. Terms pertaining to army, navy, and air force weaponry and procedures are presented on aural comprehension enrichment word cards with English translations on the reverse side. (RL)

This paper discusses the relationship between cloze demands and reading comprehension and describes a cloze program used in a third-grade classroom. A series of exercises, including word attack, sentence completion, and vocabulary-development tasks, were given regularly by teachers to the students in their third-grade classrooms. Included in the…

Part one of this bibliography lists 47 studies on the teaching of vocabulary, grades five through adult. Studies are divided into four sections on the basis of the measure used in comparing methods: general vocabulary; content area vocabulary; word lists, word parts, and related tasks; and concepts. For each study, the students involved, methods…