This publication, compiled by the NCTE Committee on Curriculum Bulletins, provides informative and evaluative annotations for 50 elementary and secondary curriculum guides. These guides, reviewed and recommended in 1965-1969, are presented to publicize good curriculum planning and guide writing and to provide models for schools revising their…

To develop a rationale for the implementation of a field-based program for teacher education in reading and language arts is the purpose of this paper. The field-based program is discussed in terms of its evolution from the traditional university program, the interrelationship between the competency-based and field-based programs, and a possible…

This paper identifies some basic propositions regarding teacher preparation utilized by a curriculum development team in the development of a competency-based teacher education curriculum in reading and language arts. The propositions underlying this development effort had their genesis in the research and literature in teacher education, were…

This report of a feasibility study, conducted under the provisions of a model elementary teacher education grant from the U.S. Office of Education, is in five parts. Chapter one contains an overview of and rationale for a performance-based teacher education program, a brief history of the study, the attitude and ability goals expected from…

Discussed and examined are the responses from 150 teachers who tried out the language arts curriculum developed by the Oregon Elementary English Project. Sections in this volume include an introduction to the Project, methods used in preparing the curriculum, results of the curriculum and an evaluation of the results, discussions of the curriculum…

Papers delivered at a four-day study session on the English Language Arts Curriculum, K-12, in Connecticut schools are presented in this bulletin. The focus of the study was: (1) the current status of English and reading programs and recommendations for their improvement, and (2) suggestions for the improvement of a preliminary draft of a new…

The Objective-Item Bank presented covers 16 sections of four subject areas in each of four grade levels. The four areas are: Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, and Science. The four grade levels are: Primary, Intermediate, Junior High, and High School. The Objective-Item Bank provides school administrators with an initial starting point for…

The Objective-Item Bank presented covers 16 sections of four subject areas in each of four grade levels. The four areas are: Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, and Science. The four grade levels are: Primary, Intermediate, Junior High, and High School. The Objective-Item Bank provides school administrators with an initial starting point for…

The Objective-Item Bank presented covers 16 sections of four subject areas in each of four grade levels. The four areas are: Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, and Science. The four grade levels are: Primary, Intermediate, Junior High, and High School. The Objective-Item Bank provides school administrators with an initial starting point for…

Advocating the whole language philosophy as an approach which makes language learning easy and fun for hearing-impaired children, activities involving reading favorite books, shared reading, and rewriting stories wherein new words and sentence structures are introduced in the context of the whole story or poem. (CB)

Presents an example of economics teaching in a "language arts format." The example shows how students might learn basic economics vocabulary by reading a story (supplied) and writing about its events. (GEA)

Outlines how the Language Arts Curriculum was evaluated for scope and sequence within the Winnsboro Independent School District (Texas). (MD)

Argues that the language arts curricula of the public schools should be more student centered and that future innovations should be aimed at meeting each student's needs. (RB)

A report by the Educational Resources Information Center at the National Council of Teachers of English; includes ERIC abstracts of documents pertinent to this topic. (Author)