Discusses the category of back-translating which translates back to the source language to assure both integrity of message and integrity of form. Describes translation types which illustrate increasing degrees of reconstructive translation. Suggests that the translation gains in status at the expense of the original and upsets some rules of…

Photography as a means of developing creative self-expression and supporting language arts skills in the Lincoln-Eliot School, Newton, Massachusetts. (LS)

Selecting textbooks can be a difficult and overwhelming process. Inundated with choices of texts and supplemental materials, teachers have many factors to consider. This brochure is designed to assist with the process by offering both key questions for discussion and criteria for evaluating textbooks.

Describes the type of evidence a survey of the type being conducted by the C.C.T.E. might produce, and some of the uses for those results. (AN)

The use of Captioned Entertainment Films' movie classics as language arts aids for deaf students is discussed in terms of thought organization, reading skills, and language and composition development. (CL)

To benefit rather than suffer from language, we must keep it in its place, in balance with other functions of the organism. (DD)

Illustrates the variety of materials available in the ERIC system, from lesson plans and teaching guides to classroom games and descriptions of individualized activities, for planning language arts lessons. (DD)

In this study we attempted to illuminate why measures of instruction sometimes fail to meet discrete tests of validity. We used a triangulation strategy -- multiple methods, data sources, and researchers -- to investigate teachers' and observers' reports on a daily language arts log. Data came from a pilot study of the log conducted in 8 urban…

This report summarizes Austin ISD's 2007 student academic assessment results on the state test,TAKS, in reading/English language arts and mathematics to determine how many students performed in the following scale score ranges: less than 2000, between 2000 and 2099, between 2100 and 2199, and greater than or equal to 2200. Students must make a…

This article addresses the importance of opening space for young people to engage in critical media literacy learning using popular culture texts. Children's background knowledge includes a wide-variety of texts that are often ignored or excluded from school curriculum. The author shows how popular music, for example, can offer powerful…

The author presents three fragments from the art work of a class of American elementary school children to illustrate the imaginative power of children's thought and language.

This book demonstrates how formative assessments, unlike standardized tests, provide the kind of communication between teachers and students that help teachers make instructional decisions to improve student performance. Included are fully developed examples of standards-based formative assessments in reading comprehension, writing, notetaking,…

This paper describes a comprehensive set of studies designed to assess the potential for commercial reading programs to teach reading in science. Specific questions focus on the proportion of selections in the programs that contain science and the amount of science that is in those selections, on the genres in which the science is portrayed, on…

Students and teachers at Hand Middle School in Columbia, South Carolina, were in the midst of a two-year, comprehensive renovation and construction project in which some sections of their 75-year-old, historic building were being renovated and new sections added. When parts of the school were boarded up and oversized machinery first moved onto…