Instructional objectives of the Dade County Public Schools Quinmester Program in introductory Latin focus on the development of vocabulary, pronunciation, greetings, and numbers and songs. Other grammatical structures include nouns, verbs, and English derivatives. An introduction to classical mythology is included. Appendixes contain a short story…

Developed for secondary school teachers who are looking for effective ways to develop and extend the reading skills of students, this handbook provides the teacher with a description of programs, tested lessons, and methods used. It also includes suggestions for (1) understanding the comprehension skills and the kinds of assignments necessary for…

Criticism of traditional methods of foreign language vocabulary study points out the need for a well-organized and systematic approach to information retrieval. A dual method is proposed which involves a learning and retrieval unit. Detailed description of the two systems illustrates how the student may allot and use his revision time in the most…

THE SETS OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS PRESENTED IN THIS VOLUME WERE DESIGNED TO CALL INTO THE LEARNING SITUATION THE MOST HIGHLY DEVELOPED COGNITIVE APTITUDES OF INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS. THE ASSUMPTION BEHIND THEIR DESIGN WAS THAT LEARNING DIFFICULTIES IN VARIOUS SUBJECT-MATTER AREAS COULD BE MINIMIZED BY ALTERING THE CONTENT OF TEXTUAL MATERIAL TO FIT…

Teaching methods and suggestions for social studies instruction, for remedial mathematics instruction, and for stimulating students to read were discussed. (RK)

Linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic aspects of word knowledge are examined. Vocabulary techniques are discussed according to how they build up word frequency, vocabulary growth in native speakers, underlying forms, semantic structure, word association, and case relations. (SCC)

A phenomenon called "pragmatic variation" is discussed as a child's individual system of behavior in response to a question the child doesn't understand but realizes that he must verbalize an answer to. (NCR)

In testing kindergartners and first graders in their comprehension of the words "before" and "after," it was found that when temporal terms are acquired, they are first used as prepositions and then as subordinating conjunctions. (Author/NCR)

Preschool children's comprehension of the adverbial modifiers "very" and "sort of" was experimentally investigated in 64 children. (Author/NCR)

This experiment used two groups of preschoolers and one group of young grade-schoolers to test for their comprehension of presuppositions and negation in complex syntax. (NCR)

Native signs used as basic kin terms in 20 sign languages from several sign language families are examined. (Author/NCR)

Discusses how a vast and easily acquired vocabulary of cognates is one element in facilitating the development of listening and speaking skills. (NCR)

As stated by Kane (1968), secondary students of mathematics must not only deal with the traditional written language code of English but also encounter concepts communicated through symbol systems. These dual language patterns can compound existing reading comprehension problems. Here is a plan mathematics teachers can use to improve the reading…

Your students will be using and building on reading-related skills during the rest of their schooling and throughout their lives. Here are some learning exercises emphasizing reading-skill activities as well as projects related to other curriculum areas. (Author/RK)

The achievement of labeling was investigated in a longitudinal study of one mother-infant dyad, using video-recordings and analysis of joint picture-book reading. Participating in a ritualized dialogue, rather than imitation, was found to be the major mechanism through which labeling was achieved. (Author/SW)