THE POSITION TAKEN IS THAT A PREWRITING PROGRAM OF FROM APPROXIMATELY 4 TO 6 WEEKS WILL AID CHILDREN IN DEVELOPING THE NEURO-MUSCULAR COORDINATION NECESSARY IN LEARNING TO WRITE. CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT TO TRACE AND THEN REPRODUCE VARIOUS FIGURES INVOLVING ALL OF THE BASIC STROKES OF MANUSCRIPT. EXAMPLES ARE INCLUDED. IT HAS BEEN FOUND THAT SUCCESS OF…

AN ANTHOLOGY OF CREATIVE WRITING IS PRESENTED. THE THEMES ENCOMPASS A RANGE AND VARIETY OF SUBJECTS. ELEVEN SECTIONS INCLUDE THE IDEAS OF THE STUDENTS ON THE FOLLOWING--THEMSELVES AND THEIR PLACE IN THE WORLD, THEIR FAMILY, THEIR SCHOOL, THE CITY OF CHICAGO, PATRIOTISM AND THE UNITED STATES, OUTER SPACE, HUMOR AND LAUGHTER, BEAUTY IN BOTH THE…

TWO NEWSLETTERS FROM THE COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROGRAM IN FRESNO INCLUDED PLANS FOR THE PLANNING GRANT PROGRAM, THE BASIC PROGRAM, AND THE INTENSIVE PROGRAM. THE BASIC PROGRAM SHOULD REDUCE PUPIL-TEACHER RATIO, PROVIDE PRESCHOOL PROJECTS THROUGH THE USE OF EITHER SCHOOL FACILITIES OR PRIVATE FACILITIES, PROVIDE REMEDIAL AND CORRECTIVE PROGRAMS IN…

Designed for use with gifted students in grades 6 through 8, the unit deals with suggestions for developing creativity through writing poetry. It is explained that the focus is on helping students recognize their own creativity before teaching poetry skills. Information on objectives, materials, and presentation methods is presented for the…

The three paradigms developed in this collection of essays represent especially fertile areas for language arts curriculum development at all grade levels. Intended to assist those educators who wish to see the implications of each type of curriculum spelled out in practical detail at every grade level, the book also is meant to be a resource for…

Addressed to junior and senior high school students, this beginning guide for writing speeches, research papers, and book reports outlines the processes of selecting a subject, organizing material and ideas, and beginning and ending a writing assignment. Offered as a supplement to classroom writing instruction, the guide assumes parental…

This volume contains evaluation reports of 1967-68 elementary school activities in the Los Angeles Unified School District, funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Included are all components which continued throughout the school year or were extended into the 1968 summer session. Elementary level activities, serving…

Several practical suggestions or guidelines for deriving objectives in traditionally difficult curriculum areas (written and oral communication, fine arts, social sciences, and humanities) are presented in this paper. The author believes that educators do not know how well they can define important, teachable objectives in these areas until they…

Models of record keeping strategies for reading and writing are presented in this booklet. "Why Records Should Be Kept" discusses the importance and advantages of keeping accurate records of pupil progress; "Commercially Available Materials" lists many of the record systems available from commercial textbook publishers; "Record-Keeping for…

In order to foster skills which would facilitate disadvantaged children's ability to learn to read, Buchanan and Sullivan developed the Readiness for Language Arts program published by the Behavioral Research Laboratories (BRL). A pilot study was run (1) to test the effectiveness of the BRL programmed materials on Head Start children and (2) to…

Implementation is the key to the success of a total reading program in any school system. Before beginning implementation, however, there are two prerequisite considerations which the author discusses here. The first is that there needs to be a program which is carefully defined by teaching and supervisory personnel. And the second is that the…

One of a series prepared by the Hawaii Newspaper Agency, this teaching guide offers suggestions for using the newspaper to teach English to nonnative speakers. Recommendations include teaching language through culture--not taking anything for granted in teaching English as a second language--and techniques for analyzing newspaper ads, headlines,…

This report displays and briefly describes the set of professional competencies and other learning outcomes that comprise the objectives for elementary majors enrolled in the Indiana University competency-based teacher education program known as RELATE (Reading and Language Arts Teacher Education). This report is divided into 10 units and lists…

The importance of the accumulating fund of language-related information available to teachers is the result of several developments: (1) There has been an increase in the amount of available research data; (2) The computer has made possible research previously impossible to design; (3) Data are more readily available through centers with acronymic…

In the last decade, curriculum specialists in the Language Arts have expanded the field to include listening. A compelling reason for increasing the listening training of first grade and preschool children lies in their "listening readiness." They are required to listen for information in order to learn, follow directions, participate in…