Supplementary instructional aids for unit four of Spanish as a Second Language for second graders, including visual aids and ditto masters for seatwork by students, are contained in this revised supplement. A teacher's guide corresponding to this unit gives the timetable for when these materials are to be used. Illustrations and worksheets are…

The annotated bibliography cites 397 high-interest, low-vocabulary materials and teacher resource books for the Migrant Adult Basic Education Project (MABE), which provides literacy instruction to migrant adults during their residence in New York State. Materials are listed for language arts, reading, math, social studies, "survival" skills, and…

Similarities and differences in language acquisition and variations in patterns of language dominance were studied with three four-year-old girls. The ideoqraphic study of child speech involved a monolingual English-speaking child, a monolingual Spanish-speaking child, and a bilingual English-Spanish-speaking child. The following measures were…

This study, conducted by the Metropolitan Communications Steering Committee for the Board on Telecommunications-Computer Applications of the National Research Council, identifies telecommunications technologies that could provide useful services for homes, businesses, and governments up to the year 1980. The present state of telecommunication…

The secretarial skills collection is composed of 47 objectives and related test items designed for business education courses in grades 10 through 12. Objectives are organized into the following categories: (1) typing; (2) shorthand; (3) office machines; (4) office practice; and (5) business English and communication. Each objective contains three…

To identify and describe extension role types, all educational assistants in the Small Farm Program, agricultural specialists, and community development and local government specialists in Missouri were asked to fill out questionnaires asking how frequently they performed 56 activities broadly representing what extension field staff might do.…

Part of a series devoted to the topic of career education in transportation, this manual, which is intended for use by students in grades 9-10, provides learning activities for a career exploration program in the field of transportation. Following the program plan outlined in the teachers' guide (CE 013 879), the activities are divided into the…

The purpose of this project was to develop an articulation model which can be adopted by any school system in Illinois. The objectives were to field test and evaluate the Project MAVE (Model for Articulated Vocational Education) Articulation Model(s) in various educational settings and to refine the model(s). There were seven implementation…

This book is designed to assist those who work with non-English dominant students by providing resource information relevant to second language teaching and learning. The articles in the series encompass both theory and practical learning techniques in six general topics. The third text of the series includes five articles on reading and writing.…

This Gulf Arabic text is designed for those who want to acquire a conversational tool beyond the basic level; it is also of interest to Arabists, anthropologists, and Arabic dialectologists. The language in this text is used in informal situations by the indigenous populations of the southern coast of the Persian Gulf. The text contains 21 lessons…

An outline is provided of Food Service 225, a course offered at Orange Coast College dealing with the organization and management of food service departments within health care, community care, and school feeding programs. The outline first presents a course description, which covers prerequisite course work, the role of the course within the…

A state-of-the-art convocation brought together a select group of 30 American Indian leaders to discuss national goals for American Indian education. The conference was held in order to clarify the role of the National Indian Education Association, to unify the major national organizations and agencies involved in Indian education, and to…

An understanding of the structure and function of discourse in social communication and in its internal representation to the individuals is sought in this multidisciplinary collection of papers. The approaches are divided into theoretical orientations and empirical orientations. The theoretical papers deal with: (1) comprehension in conversation,…

The purpose of this Child Development Associate (CDA) training module, one of a series of 18, is to provide the CDA intern with an understanding of both the processes involved in the development of language skills and the role of the teacher in enhancing language development. The module stipulates competency-based objectives and provides essential…

Components of the Reading/Writing Skills Center (RWSC) at General College, University of Minnesota, are described and assessed in this paper. The paper discusses changes made in the RWSC during 1978-79; procedures followed when students first come to the RWSC; the training and responsibilities of the undergraduate RWSC tutors; student evaluations…