A description of how the Karuk Indians of northwestern California gathered and prepared acorns for food includes illustrations and Karuk words for utensils and processes. The booklet explains how women of the tribe gathered, dried, stored, cracked, ground, leached, and cooked acorns to make acorn soup. Illustrations supplement descriptions of…

The Bilingual Program Resource and Training Center, in its first year of a new three-year funding cycle, provided instruction in English as a second language (ESL), native language development, and basic education, in addition to a job counseling and placement component, to approximately 1,900 students of limited English proficiency (LEP) at 16…

Project JOBS (Job Opportunities for Bilingual Students) is a Title VII-funded project providing English as a second language (ESL) and content area and career-related instruction to students of limited English proficiency (LEP) at South Shore High School and James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York. In 1985-86, Project JOBS was in the third…

Designed in consultation with Ojibwe elders and tested with students of all ages, the illustrated bilingual booklet uses rhyming "guess who" English riddles with Ojibwe translations to teach about the special characteristics and centrality of 20 woodland animals in American Indian culture. Animals included are the bald eagle, bear,…

Project CERCA (Career Exploration through Reinforcement of Correlated Academics) at Flushing High School (New York) seeks to improve English language proficiency and performance in the academic content areas, to help develop native language skills, and to instill career awareness. The project serves a target population of Hispanic students, most…

Project BETA is a multi-site program serving 224 recent immigrants in ninth through twelfth grade. Originally intended as an enrichment program for gifted and talented students with limited English proficiency (LEP), in practice, the program is open to all LEP students in three targeted languages: Korean, Vietnamese, and Haitian Creole/French. The…

Project TEACH completed the first year of a three-year program serving 190 newly arrived limited English proficient (LEP) students from the Caribbean, Central America and Cambodia. Virtually all students belonged to low-income families and many had received little formal education in their native countries. The primary goal was to facilitate…

Project PROBE is a multi-site program located in two high schools. It is intended to increase career awareness among approximately 200 Hispanic students and 100 Chinese-speaking students through instruction in content areas, English as a second language (ESL), students' native language, and computer literacy, supplemented by enrichment resources…

A discussion of the use of native languages in the instruction of limited English proficient Asian students addresses three questions: (1) whether the students' native language should be used as a means of instruction; (2) whether there is a transfer of skills from the native language to the second language; and (3) how the language and culture of…

In its final year of funding, Project COPE provided instruction in basic skills and career development to 388 students of limited English proficiency (LEP) in grades 9 through 12 at three sites in Brooklyn and the Bronx: 150 Hispanics at John F. Kennedy High School, 150 Haitians at Prospect Heights High School, and 88 Italians at Christopher…

In its first year, the Cooperative Work-Study Program for Bilingual Students offered full and partial programs of bilingual instruction and career exploration, as well as supportive services, to 160 students at Evander Childs High School, Bronx, New York. Full program students spoke Spanish at home and in the community; partial program…

This handbook is designed to assist California's public school teachers of limited-English-speaking native Cantonese-speaking students in understanding this minority group. The first two chapters address general background factors concerning this language group: immigration history, educational background, and historical and sociocultural factors…

In 1982-83, Project CHASP offered bilingual instruction and support services to 100 Cambodian and 75 Hispanic limited-English-speaking students in the 9th and 10th grades at Theodore Roosevelt High School, Bronx, New York. The goal of the program was to develop student proficiency in the English language skills necessary for full mainstreaming…

The book presents the Makah alphabet decided upon in a public workshop held by the Makah Language Program in 1978, before which there was no standard Makah orthography. The 10 vowels and 34 consonants of the alphabet are presented in relation to English sounds. The book groups vowels sounds together but devotes a page to each consonant telling how…

Project ELITES provides bilingual education to 307 Spanish-speaking, Arabic-speaking, and Greek-speaking students at Fort Hamilton High School, Brooklyn, New York. Project ELITES's philosophy is to mainstream students after two years of participation. The program's individualized approach is obtained through a 3-tiered instructional format:…