Compressed speech is described as maintaining all consonant sounds, reducing all vowel sounds, and eradicating as closely as possible all pauses. (DS)

Discusses the child's awareness of music and the continuously developing realization of what music actually is. (Author/RK)

Suggests that skills need not be taught in isolation for they will be learned if the student has sufficient motivation. Suggests that teacher set in motion a reading, writing, speaking, listening and rewriting program with the ultimate goal of publication. Includes examples of the work of some of her own students. (RB)

Study concluded that use of Negro dialect or standard English made no significant difference in ability to answer literal questions; sex and level of readiness did. (Author/MB)

Excerpted from a chapter in the forthcoming book, Children Learn to Communicate" (Prentice Hall). Considers the problem of how bibliotherapy can be placed appropriately in an English program focused on creative problem solving. Case studies. (RB)

Findings demonstrate that the function of receptive vocabulary is different from and more highly developed than the expressive vocabulary regardless of socio-economic level. (Authors)

Suggests ways in which the newspaper can be used to teach reading and other language arts skills. Also gives suggestions for its use in other content areas. (VJ)

Purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of student expectancy and the locus of control variable upon increasing reading rates. (Authors)

Traces the trends in reading instruction, and proposes that reading be taught according to the Quantity Reading Method in which students are given a brief course in reading skills, followed by opportunities to read widely and quantitatively. References. (VJ)