Ways in which schools can develop the lively arts of language--listening, speaking, reading, and writing--through furnishing a learning ecology, is the focus of this paper. The establishment of a learning ecology is described as being based on the primacy of talk. In this context, teachers must personify the ways in which talk joins people. The…

A program for teaching poetry was administered to 82 working class children, testing the suggestion that improved ability in writing poetry would result in improvement in their attitude towards literature in general, and in their ability to write prose. Although limited by the small number of intact groups and possible questions on the validity of…

The Oregon Small Schools Program, (an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III project) held a week-long institute in the summer of 1972 to demonstrate how construction can be individualized even with a large class load by organizing the curriculum and schedule so everyone can work at his own pace on meaningful projects. Given in this…

The purpose of this study was to enumerate, categorize, and compare the types of reading comprehension questions and activities included in the manuals of selected basal reading series. The Barrett Taxonomy--Cognitive and Affective Dimensions of Reading Comprehension was selected as the categorization taxonomy. Basal series were classified as…

Developed by the Oregon Elementary English Project, the lessons in this first of a two-part unit on the human language are built around Luther Click, a boy who turns into different animals to show that different creatures have different means of communicating. Intended for grades three and four, the six lessons develop the concept that different…

Developed by the Oregon Elementary English Project, the lessons in this second of a two-part unit on the human language intended for grades three and four revolve around the character Sad Sam, who gets lost in the woods and happens to observe four animals (bears, raccoons, geese, and robins). Having been introduced to Sad Sam in lesson 1, the…

As a part of the National Conference on Research in English cooperative research project concerning teacher behavior in the language arts, a literature survey was made to locate studies describing the behaviors of teachers during spelling instruction. The search was limited to studies reported during the period November 1966 to November 1971.…

A course designed to aid the student in developing effective skills for critical listening and listening for comprehension of ideas. Clear articulation, effective voice production, acceptable pronunciation, pitch variation, rhythm and phrasing are also practiced for cultural growth and social maturity. The course outline consists of: I.…

This working paper presents a twelve-part paridigm for testing the level of concept attainment in language arts. Items were selected for three topics: words, words in sentences, and connected discourse. Within each topic concepts presented in the middle elementary grades were identified, and ten concepts were randomly selected for each topic. Each…

A program of Afro-American studies was implemented for a duration of four months to assess the effect of such studies upon the racial attitudes of white American children. The study consisted of 85 children whose ages ranged from six to eight years. Not equated on the basis of sex, intelligence, or achievement, all of the pupils experienced the…

This booklet is designed to offer teachers and administrators a guide for identification of gifted and creative students. Suggestions for providing appropriate instruction, guidance, and experience in reading are also given. The editor understands the term gifted to include not only children of a very high IQ, but also "any child whose performance…

The Portland Project, an inservice training program in the teaching of reading for teachers, parents, principals, and teacher aides, was a federally-funded joint effort of Portland State University and the Portland, Oregon, Public Schools. It provided for one day of released time per week for teachers of grades one through four in four…

Services offered through this project were concentrated on the Mission District of San Francisco, California, where the highest percentage of monolingual and bilingual Spanish-speaking population is concentrated. The student linguistic target for project classes was half-and-half monolingual Spanish speakers and monolingual English speakers.…

This textbook, book 6 of "The Language of Man" series, covers semantics, the language of politics, language and race, the language of advertising, and the origins and growth of the English language. The material analyzed comes from many sources (advertisements, newspaper articles, poems, parodies) and attempts to demonstrate the effect of the…

The language arts curriculum of the Fort Benton school system was developed with funds under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to stimulate the inherent creative talents of the student with the skills of communication. Basic goals of the K-12 curriculum are to develop an appreciation of varied forms of literature and fine…