The components of a competency-based English curriculum, grades K-12, are described, taking into account competencies at various levels rather than grades. The content areas at each level include listening, speaking, reading, writing, language, literature, and media. An explanation is provided at each stage of development for: needs assessment;…

This 9-week, Quinmester program is a survey of music in the jazz idion, particularly major musicians and their music of the last two decades. No musical prerequisites are necessary. Objectives include the ability to distinguish major performers, the blues form, instruments, major compositions and to become aware of jazz as an American art form,…

This secondary level Quinmester course is designed to teach the principal types of vocal, instrumental, and operatic compositions of the Romantic period through listening to the styles of different composers and acquiring recognition of their works. The course is intended for students who have participated in fine or performing arts and for pupils…

This guide incorporates the recommendations and suggestions of project teachers who were involved in establishing a secondary English program for low achieving, disadvantaged students. The ultimate purpose of the program is to foster successful language experiences which can improve students' self-concepts. The guide is divided into sections on…

This booklet is intended for classroom teachers who would like to teach reading within the context of television. Most of the activities presented in this booklet pertain directly to reading, but other aspects of a language arts program (listening, speaking, and writing) are also given some attention. The activities are designed to serve as a…

This study examined whether dialect background interferes with the comprehension of school material due to structural and phonological differences and whether reading or listening is a more efficient mode for presentation of school material. The population of 304 black male adolescents was randomly assigned to four groups, and seven passages of…

This investigation was designed to study the relative importance of certain factors of creativity in predicting concurrent success in learning Spanish. The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, Form B, Verbal and Figural Batteries, were used to approximate creative potential and the Modern Language Association Cooperative Test: Spanish, Form MA,…

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…