Materials for Spanish-English bilingual children's vocabulary development in grades K-6 include lists of English words and their Spanish counterparts for the typical course of study, which in grades one through six includes social studies, science, language arts, health and safety, and math. Related class activities in each area are suggested…

The STARS (Secondary Training for Alaskan Rural Students) materials resulted from extensive rewriting of the Vocational Adult Secondary Training (VAST) materials produced by the British Columbia Department of Education, after those materials had been used with the 9th and 10th grades on Kodiak Island. Revision was done by teachers who had been…

This vocational instructional module on common terms used in the study of electricity is one of eight such modules designed to assist recently arrived Arab students, limited in English proficiency (LEP), in critical instructional areas in a comprehensive high school. Goal stated for this module is for the student enrolled in electronics courses to…

This vocational instructional module on safety clothing for welding is one of eight such modules designed to assist recently arrived Arab students, limited in English proficiency (LEP), in critical instructional areas in a comprehensive high school. Goal stated for this module is for the student enrolled in welding classes to learn the terminology…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 10 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effects of bilingual memory on learning vocabulary through the device of semantic mapping; (2) native American and Anglo use of compliance-gaining…

As part of a series on career and life planning for adults, this booklet examines strategies and academic skills that can help reentry adult students. Part I discusses factors to be considered in planning a return to school: determining the motivation for returning, choosing an appropriate educational program, investigating nontraditional methods…

Designed to assist bilingual teachers in providing a coordinated program of studies for students in the Connecticut Migratory Children's Program and others whose native language is Spanish, this bilingual-bicultural mathematics curriculum guide for second grade is one of a series for pre-school through fifth grade. The overall focus is on Puerto…

Several studies have begun to investigate the claim that children can make most phonological discriminations when they begin to speak. This paper investigates how well children aged 2;3 to 2;11 can discriminate between pairs of minimally different real words, and it shows that the results are affected by how well the children know the words. It is…

A bibliography containing 150 entries covering 11 types of teaching materials is presented. It consists of a contents list, annotated entries, an index of authors, editors, compilers and adapters, and a title index. The entries are subdivided as follows: (1) composition; (2) comprehension and conversation; (3) translation; (4) grammatical points;…

This paper proposes a broad outline of a variable model of language development and explores several particulars of such a model in the language behavior of four two-year-old children. The process by which information about language is progressively transformed and integrated rather than merely being added together can be seen in the shifting…

Designed as supplemental material to on-going instruction in the vocational program, this first of three picture dictionary booklets in the Allied Health series is intended to assist the learning handicapped student to master the core vocabulary taught in the trade. Intended for individual or small group instruction with minimal supervision, this…

Designed as supplemental material to on-going instruction in the vocational program, this second of three picture dictionary booklets in the Allied Health series is intended to assist the learning handicapped student to master the core vocabulary taught in the trade. Intended for individual or small group instruction with minimal supervision, this…

Designed as supplemental material to on-going instruction in the vocational program, this third of three picture dictionary booklets in the Allied Health series is intended to assist the learning handicapped student to master the core vocabulary taught in the trade. Intended for individual or small group instruction with minimal supervision, this…

Designed as supplemental material to on-going instruction in the vocational program, this teacher's manual to the Upholstery series is intended to accompany three dictionary booklets (available as CE 024 422, CE 024 423, and CE 024 424) for use by handicapped students to help them master the core vocabulary taught in the trade. Information…

This module on the sun oscilloscope is the sixth of six (CE 028 296-301) in the auto mechanics course of a bilingual skills training program. (A Vocabulary Development Workbook is available as CE 028 294.) The course is designed to furnish theoretical and laboratory experience. Module objectives are for students to develop trade-related…