The School Curriculum Objective-Referenced Evaluation (SCORE) system is an item bank that can be effectively and inexpensively used to develop criterion referenced tests which reflect an institution's educational objectives. SCORE also allows for test construction, formatting, and reporting. Flexible in design, SCORE educational objectives are…

The purposes of this study were to describe the use of creative dramatics within an average ninth grade arts class and to document the behavior changes in verbal and nonverbal communications, creative thinking and behavior, feeling of group closeness, self-confidence, and attitude toward the course. A teacher inexperienced in drama conducted the…

Materials listed in this annotated bibliography include selections chosen from all major subject areas, restricted largely to publications of the past 10 years, relating to each of the major school levels, and having practical significance to teachers and administrators as well as to school practice. Entries are listed under the following…

The main intentions of the two-day teachers' conference on language disabilities held at East Carolina University were to provide background information on how children acquire linguistic habits, to identify and suggest remedies for certain socioemotional problems which interfere with learning, to isolate problems arising from diversity in…

Designed for use in grades K-12, this teacher's resource manual advocates the use of a language-experience approach and diagnostic-prescriptive techniques derived from modern linguistic theory for the promotion of students' facility in written composition. The program utilizes an individualized approach and relates writing instruction to speaking,…

Recently those in the teaching profession have begun to realize the importance of listening skills. Of the 4 areas of language arts, listening is the primary skill. Phonics and listening are related in that there is a significant relationship between the child's ability to discriminate between letter sounds and his ability to listen. The child…

The contents of this issue consist of articles concerning various facets of the teaching of reading. A guest article by Patrick Groff is entitled "Phonics Teachers: Join the Consumer Movement." Other articles focus on volunteers in public schools, the high risk child, the importance of good vision, the testing of tests, the…

The two volumes of this sourcebook are designed for elementary teachers to help encourage children's creativity. The volumes offer activities and suggestions for language arts teachers who are interested in a variety of approaches to helping children appreciate poetry; do elaborative thinking; understand generic and specific words; understand…

Science fiction merits critical appraisal for structure, characterization, language, and stylistic elements that it shares with other prose forms. This report discusses science fiction as a subject in the language arts curriculum in the middle grades as well as in the high school. It is placed in a historical and philosophical framework that makes…

This selective bibliography is one of nine documents compiled to provide titles and descriptions of useful and informative reading documents which were indexed into the ERIC system from 1966 to 1974. The 245 entries in this section of the bibliography concern reading materials and are arranged alphabetically by author in one of the following 12…

The ideas for teaching English which are presented in this book are proven classroom practices for the new or experienced English teacher. The criteria for the teaching-learning sequence as it is used in the book are introduction (discover, listen, observe, read, and research), deliberation (analyze, consolidate, experiment, interpret, and…

The dynamics of verse can be tapped to serve individual readers at the elementary and secondary levels. Choral speaking, or any group speaking together, can eliminate the fear of failure for the lone reader. A verse choir can be organized to use pitch, power, phrasing, tempo, voice quality, and movement to interpret a piece of literature. Although…

Even though linguistics has freed us from misconceptions, we have continued to seek answers to usage problems primarily by looking to linguistics. The myth of the verbal authority of standard speakers has given way to the evaluation of statistical frequency of forms. No matter how extensive or accurate the statistics, they must still be followed…

This study was designed to assess the impact of the Project English manual "English Language Arts in Wisconsin," to evaluate the teaching of English in Wisconsin public secondary schools, and to investigate teacher inservice and preservice training. Questionnaires involving one third of the population of secondary English teachers tapped…

This language arts minicourse guide for Lampeter-Strasburg (Pennsylvania) High School contains a topical outline for a basic vocabulary development course. The guide includes a list of eleven course objectives; an outline of the content and concepts to be studied in the basic vocabulary course; a description of the vocabulary, definitions of the…