For those students who qualify, the Advance Program offers an opportunity to follow a stimulating curriculum designed for the academically talented. This guide for ninth grade English was developed to broaden the student's skill and understanding of the history of the English language, composition, grammar, vocabulary development, and literature.…

Approaches and materials which are used to develop the vocabulary of high risk students at the University of Southern Colorado, an open enrollment university, are described in this paper. A basic skills reading course is required of students scoring below the 22nd percentile on the Cooperative English Test and a developmental reading course is…

This document contains 21 reading activities for students in kindergarten through grade six. A description and procedure are given for each activity, including a list of materials needed. The activities include a variety of word games, multimedia approaches, and creative writing exercises. (LL)

Due to recent interest in the use of elaborative contexts to enhance associative learning, the effectiveness of elaboration as an instructional technique in vocabulary development was evaluated with 107 educable mentally retarded children in three primary level classes. Ss were given vocabulary instruction under one of three instructional…

The tape scripts in this manual of Hebrew are intended to accompany audio tapes which have been prepared for use in the presentation and practice of the grammatical structures recommended for Level 1 in the New York City Foreign Language Programs for Secondary Schools. It is hoped that the tapes and accompanying scripts will serve as key aids in…

Four grade 6 classes in the Auburn Public Schools, Washington, were involved in a sequence of 30-minute lessons (8 weeks) developed by the experimenter to ascertain the effectiveness of direct systematic vocabulary instruction emphasizing prefixes, suffixes, and root words. Some elements of sentence structure, mnemonic devices, and etymology were…

To determine the effect of verbalization on the acquisition of manipulative skills in young children, a puzzle-assembly experiment was designed. Each of 65 Head Start children between the ages of 47 and 58 months was randomly assigned to one of the four treatment groups: practice with verbalization (PV); practice with no verbalization (PNV);…

Specific teaching techniques and examples for vocabulary development are presented in this paper. The categories presented for vocabulary development include "Etymological Approach,""Wide Reading,""Prepared Word List,""Word Derivation Method,""Contextual methods for Familiar Words,""Contextual Methods for Unfamiliar Words,""Theme Studies,""Content…

This study is a description of the Kurdish of the city of Sulaimaniya, Iraq. Kurdish dialects cover an area embracing parts of eastern Turkey, Soviet Armenia, northern Syria, western Iran, and Khorasan in Iran. The language is described in terms of (1) phonology, (2) morphology, (3) morphophonemics, (4) word formation, and (5) syntax. An appendix,…

Produced for primary and intermediate grades, this student booklet provides a study of ecological terms. These include environment, interrelationships, ecology, organisms, energy, food chains, food web, producers, consumers, decomposers, energy cycle, and ecosystems. Line drawings and a minimum amount of narrative make up its content and it may be…

The focus of this study was to analyze the classroom language of kindergarten teachers and to relate this information to various normative estimates of the language repertoire of young children. A total of 104 5-minute samples were tape recorded for 15 kindergarten teachers. Transcripts were later checked by an independent listner. These scrits…

Presented are 45 lesson plans for teaching expressive oral language to trainable mentally retarded students. Lessons cover the following major topics: self concept, shape and color, simple protective directions, names of furniture, clothing, and animals and their sounds. Each lesson plan includes a list of materials needed, how to arrange the…

Developed by utilizing only Jicarilla Apache people as resources to preserve the authenticity of the material and information, this booklet presents information on the Jicarilla Apache celebration of "Go-gii-ya". "Go-gii-ya" is a religious feast and ceremony held annually over a three-day period which climaxes on the fifteenth…

The Basic Word Vocabulary Test (BWVT) was extended downward by administering it orally to 96 pupils selected randomly from grades one through four. Estimates of aural understanding vocabulary at each grade were obtained and were found to be much lower than results from previous studies, due to the strict criteria of the BWVT. Correlations with the…

The so-called "threshold level," defined as minimum basic vocabulary, is analyzed. It is felt that the "Lexicon for Threshold-Level English" contains too many rare words and exemplary sentences that are empty of expression and sometimes unidiomatic. (Text is in German.) (IFS/MS)