This annotated film bibliography is a compilation of film listings suitable for early childhood education teacher training, parent education, and for viewing by children. The list has been gathered from a variety of sources including the National Association for the Education of Young Children's conference film showings for the past several years,…

Dia de Dar Gracias (Thanksgiving) is the subject of this primary level unit. The unit objectives are to: (1) know about El Dia de Dar Gracias as it is celebrated in the United States; (2) know how the Mayas celebrated it; (3) understand the context of the stories in the unit; (4) know about the main food used, the turkey; (5) distinguish other…

The short stories, poems, songs, and cultural descriptions about American Indians (volume 2 of two) are the result of a combined effort of the 7th grade students of Rice School District (Sacaton, Arizona), their teacher, and the parents and friends of the students of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation (Arizona). The 24 student contributors…

The concern of Pilot V (sponsored by the New Jersey Office of Migrant Education) is to establish and develop a sequential developmental curriculum focused on the needs of migrant children. Development is aimed at the instructional areas of language, reading, mathematics, and social awareness for kindergarten through 12th grade. The bilingual…

Monographs produced on the basis of two and a half years of research at The Demonstration Center for Language Handicapped Children are collected. The monographs address the following topics: a generalized evaluation model for language disability programs; the impact of the language center program on the individual child as determined from critical…

This course familiarizes students with punched-card and electronic data processing terminology, the cycle, the basic operations, and their relationship to these two systems. It includes a familiarization with the various devices, equipment, media, and typical business applications for each system; it also includes an introduction to languages used…

Tracing the broad movements in the teaching of English--both in theory and in practice--from its origin as a subject during the 1880's to the present day, this book focuses on the aspect of the teaching of English which has absorbed the greatest amount of teacher's time, energy, and enthusiasm: the teaching of literature. Chapters, following a…

A description is provided of a computer system designed to aid in the analysis of student programing work. The first section of the report consists of an overview and user's guide. In it, the system input is described in terms of a "dribble file" which records all student inputs generated; also an introduction is given to the aids…

The report summarizes research on the development of an objective scoring system and the formulation of scales useful in the assessment of psychological development and normal behavior using a five-card, orally administered and tape-recorded version of the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT). The TAT language scales which were developed represent…

The immediate purpose of the 1973 tri-state (Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin) Adult Basic Education workshop, a Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages project, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (four and one-half days) was the training or retraining of teachers in English as a second dialect or English as a foreign language to…

Focusing on language experiences as the key to effective learning and living, this Oklahoma state curriculum publication for grades one through twelve suggests viable alternatives in learning to cope with a world that demands immediate changes, adaptive solutions to a nonstatic environment, and a mental flexibility for harmonious interaction with…

The ETS Story Sequence task was designed to assess the young child's understanding and use of language in story sequence using receptive and productive skills. The stimulus materials are black and white cartoon-type drawings on cards. Story Sequence I used in Years 1 and 2 of the study consists of two practice items (3 cards each) and two test…

During the 1971-72 school year, data was gathered on pre and post test scores for reading and mathematics achievement from 2 groups of mobile migrant children receiving supplementary educational services. The program, a part of the California Plan for the Education of Migrant Children (Title I, Elementary and Secondary Education Act), used 2…

During the 1971-1972 school year, the regular educational programs in District 24 were supplemented with special educational services funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This evaluation report treats the several programs funded under the following headings: Pre-Kindergarten Program, Strengthened Early Childhood…

This program focuses on the elective English programs which are, in whole or in part, replacing traditional English offerings at the secondary school level. It is suggested that the newer elective English programs differ from traditional ones in at least six ways: (1) elective programs consist of a wide variety of courses; (2) students are…