One of 6 state reports of projects and programs operating in cooperation with the Regional Curriculum Project, the document highlights major curriculum-change programs in South Carolina which were initiated in 1966. The 4 projects reported are "Curriculum Study in Berkeley County," which had as its purpose the identification and…

This report of PROJECT DESIGN, funded under ESEA Title III, assesses the English language arts of the Fresno City Unified School District, kindergarten through the 12th grade. A linguistic inventory was administered by mail to 75 randomly selected elementary, junior high, and senior high school teachers. A linguistic analysis of student…

Efforts to individualize the secondary school English curriculum (Poway High School, California) have led to the development of a program of approximately 20 non-graded courses in literature, language, and composition which allows students to choose their own courses and to make decisions about content, structure, and methods of evaluation in a…

Sixteen-millimeter educational films are listed in this catalog with description, running time, and whether black and white or color. They are listed under 24 subject headings grouped into six categories: The Arts; People, Places, and History; Health; Science; Social Science; and Sports and Recreation. Cross references are provided throughout.…

A language arts program for Navajo children is presented in this curriculum guide based on needs outlined in the Bureau of Indian Affairs' publication "Curriculum Needs of Navajo Pupils." The program should provide each Navajo pupil with an opportunity to acquire a basic mastery of the English language in order to integrate his own…

Instead of emphasizing forms and types, teachers of communication should emphasize the kinds of actions that verbal communications are--both for those who make them and for those who receive them. Because, in verbal communication, language becomes a vehicle by which we exert "force" on another, language arts studies ought to begin with the study…

Focusing on literature, language, and composition as related components of the total literature-centered English program, this curriculum guide emphasizes the skills of reading, listening, speaking, and writing. Each of the four sections--developmental reading, composition, language, and literature--provides guide points or discussion on five…

The purpose of this study was to describe, analyze, and compare the original writings of two fourth-grade classes. Selected aspects of content and structure were used to determine the effects of an integrated and individualized approach to the teaching of the language arts by the same teacher. The data were collected over a 2-year period. The…

With the belief that the sense of confusion prevalent among secondary school composition teachers arises from the lack of a unifying theoretical construct within which they can teach, a theory of the art of writing was devised, based on James L. Kinneavy's "Theory of Discourse" which offers a unifying description of the relationships among…

Five factors should be considered in understanding the value of children's literature in the elementary school curriculum, as both an aesthetic and utilitarian experience. Children's literature is significant (1) as an information supplement in science, art, social studies, mathematics, and other curriculum subjects; (2) as a vital part of the…

The evaluations of five 1-week NDEA Institutes for State Supervisors of English and Reading, held during 1968-69, are contained in this report. The individual institutes discussed are (1) "New Content in English Programs" at Urbana, Illinois, (2) "Literature and School Programs" at Tallahassee, Florida, (3) "Language and…

Developed around the concept that a modern language arts program is planned to help students use language and understand the nature of language, this curriculum guide for grades five and six offers pedagogical approaches to comprehending ideas through listening, observing, and reading, and to expressing ideas through speaking and writing. Sections…

Developed for a high school quinmester unit on existentialism, this guide is designed to help students examine the philosophy and life style of the existentialist. Performance objectives for the course include defining the human capability of choice, analyzing existential works that reflect attitudes of philosophical disorientation and literary…

In order that the teacher trainee may gain knowledge, skills, and proficiency in the communication skills instruction of elementary school children, this handbook of modules focuses on five major areas of the language arts--listening, speaking, reading, writing, and dramatizing. Eight modules are included: "Overview, Interrelationship, and…

Designed to assess readers' evaluations of poems or other works of fiction, the Poetic Evaluation Rating Scale (PERS) is a set of 15 semantic differential scales. After each set of 11 poems, the reader checks a point along a line between two adjectives with opposite meanings (bi-polar adjectives). Each pair of adjectives is 1 of the 15 scales, all…