A descriptive history is presented of the Children's Theatre Association of Baltimore, an independent community children's theater, focusing on the years 1943-1966, the period in which founder Isabel Burger was in office. The Association's educational goals, influence, and contribution to the community are stressed. A major portion of the research…

GRADES OR AGES: Kindergarten. SUBJECT MATTER: Reading. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide has five main sections; 1) comprehension skills; 2) attitudes and interests; 3) word recognition skills; 4) study skills; and 5) oral expression. Each section has sub-sections giving an overall description of the topic, a list of comprehension…

GRADES OR AGES: Elementary. SUBJECT MATTER: Language arts. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: There are three main sections: 1) listening and speaking; 2) written language, with subsections on composition, handwriting, and spelling; and 3) reading, with a subsection on literature. There is also a brief glossary and a list of phonetic aids for…

A set of abstracts in the working stage is presented. A total of 46 is included. The basic focus of this collection is on ways to communicate as an alternative to destructive behavior. (CK)

THE RESEARCH CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT INCLUDED TWO STUDIES--(1) OPERANT PREFERENCE FOR RATE OF NARRATION AND (2) ORAL READING, SILENT READING, AND SPEAKING RATES. THE FIRST STUDY WAS BASED ON A DOCTORAL DISSERTATION FOR WHICH OPERANT-CONDITIONING TECHNIQUES AND CONJUGATE REINFORCEMENT WERE APPLIED IN RECORDING PREFERENCES FOR NARRATIVE RATE. THE…

"Chance Dance" is a success-oriented learning technique which gives students an opportunity to explore a word or a concept through oral expression, dance, and creative writing. This is done by first eliciting from the group all possible verbal associations for a selected word or concept and then, in smaller groups, choreographing some of these…

Examines the effect of varying the quality of evidence in a persuasive message. Concludes that, while good evidence may not be necessary to persuasive communication, poor evidence is detrimental. (PD)

Proposes research that analyzes differences in the linguistic behavior of individuals and groups, within the context of three conversational situations, in order to determine whether these differences can be ascribed to sociocultural differences. (AM)

Examines the relationship of phonological characteristics of children's imitative utterances to the characteristics of spontaneous utterances in early stage I. The findings indicated that, while these imitative utterances were subject to the same production constraints, they were not subject to the same selection and avoidance rules operative in…

Suggests that speech communication instructors consider teaching a unit advertising course and offers a series of instructional alternatives for constructing such a unit. (MH)

Discusses the need for establishing instruction which aids student understanding of mass media process and effects and which facilitates rational and influential responses to media. (MH)

Explores the nature and functions of conflict, its role in fundamental individual and social life processes, and its theoretical relationship to communication from a system-theoretic perspective. Indicates a distinction between conflict and para-conflict, and suggests that the latter is characteristically the object of study in speech and…

Attempts to refine the concept of indirect communication by distinguishing a number of different forms of indirect communication such as hinting, suggesting and insinuating. (MH)

Presents a revised version of the keynote address to the Central States Speech Association (1977) by Marie Nichols, Professor of Speech Communication, Emerita, University of Illinois. (MH)