Outlined in the brochure are the language arts, motor perception, and curriculum modification components of Project Success (Nebraska), a program funded by Title III for elementary level students with specific language disabilities (SLD). Numerous cartoons and photographs are included. Characteristics such as reading slowly through having an…

Communication theory, classical rhetoric, and love of language are three major roots that may inform and stimulate elementary speech teachers. First, books, puppets, and painted illustrations may be useful in teaching communication theory. For example, children may be made aware of the paralinguistic potential by working with puppets, allowing the…

One of a series prepared by the Hawaii Newspaper Agency, this teaching guide offers 100 ideas for using the daily newspaper to teach lower elementary classes language arts, social studies, and mathematics. The 100 ideas may be adapted to either group or individual instruction; however, the teachers highly recommend individualized instruction. (SW)

One of a series prepared by the Hawaii Newspaper Agency, this teaching guide offers suggestions on using the newspaper as an instructional aid in the classroom. Following a list of do's and don'ts for teachers who plan to introduce the newspaper to students, this booklet contains general ideas on how to teach students in the language arts and how…

Designed to assess the ability of subjects to apply concrete operations to data in a reading format, and to determine if there is any difference with regard to type of paragraph or type of question, this test consists of four short paragraphs, each of which established one of the following operations: an additive classification, a multiplicative…

Designed to investigate how the beginning reader understands the antecedent/anaphora relationship in written discourse, this test contains four stories which were drawn from basal readers and modified so that the categories of pronouns were represented in proportion to their occurrence in the basal readers. Stories were further modified so that…

The aids consist of excerpts of curriculum guides that are representative models for sections of the "Criteria for Planning and Evaluation of Curriculum Guides." The criteria were established by the National Council of Teachers of English Committee on Curriculum Bulletins and were designed to facilitate the planning and evaluating of curricula.…

Nineteen environmental education objectives are listed to be incorporated into the junior and senior high school Language Arts Program. Under each objective there are suggested activities that integrate environmental concepts into appropriate language arts activities. This document is a product of the Milwaukee Public Schools' Master Plan for…

The pilot edition of the curriculum guide for elementary gifted education of the Cranston, Rhode Island, school department offers a resource framework for the presentation of academic material while providing for individual instruction and initiative. The curriculum funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act offers…

This guidebook is designed to be both a resource book and a tentative curriculum outline. The language arts program described for grades 7 through 10 attempts to provide students with a basic background from which they can draw information and skills as needed for their successful work in the English electives offered in grades 11 and 12. The…

The problem of this study was to identify the language arts program in Ohio two-year colleges with technical programs. Some of the research procedures involved: (1) a survey of the literature to gain background and direction; (2) development of items for the four questionnaires which would reveal the identity of the technical language arts program…

To determine the effect of background music during classroom instruction in vocabulary and grammar and in the delivery of speeches, sophomore high school students were divided into an experimental group (66 students) and a control group (60 students). For one semester the experimental group heard classical background music during instruction,…

This handbook is intended to provide some basic guidelines for the high school age tutor of young children. Areas discussed include the development of language in children, organization of teaching time, and use of instructional materials. (CK)

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 2 and 3. SUBJECT MATTER: Language arts. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide has two main sections, level two and level three, each subdivided into listening skills, speaking skills, and writing skills. The material in each section is set out in three columns: skills, teaching procedures, and materials. The guide…

This book is comprised of essays, reports, and recommendations which were prepared by some 40 scholars who participated in The National Development Project on Rhetoric. The project, which was sponsored by the Speech Communication Association, had as its primary objective the development and amplification of a theory of rhetoric to meet current and…