Chapter 1 contains a general description of the Israeli school system, with a history of education in Israel and a summary of the education situation in Palestine; a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the school system's division into general, religious, and labor trends; a detailed account of the organizational framework; an…

This special issue of the "Indiana English Journal" is devoted to such articles on literature in the classroom as "The Boys of Summer" by Saul Bachner, "Sexual Stereotypes and Persuasive Techniques in Children's Literature" by Marilyn Faulconer and Thomas Tortoriello, and teaching "Silas Marner Again" by…

This guide was developed to help teachers instruct children in the language arts and develop children's language skills. Section 1 presents such topics as motor skills, listening skills, visual skills, vocabulary development, comprehension, oral expression, and written expression. Each topic is divided into three parts: skill sequence, teaching…

This ungraded curriculum guide was designed specifically for slow learners in basic, secondary level English classes. The content, built on the rationale that the slow learner can learn to spell and use standard English in speaking and writing, consists of twenty-three objectives for each of which several activities and techniques are listed. A…

In order to meet the needs of the students in a small rural school (Corbett High School in Oregon), 3 projects have been instituted which are geared to individual student interest, vocational choice, and ability. The first project, a non-graded language arts program, was developed by existing staff. Students in grades 9 through 12 are grouped by…

The study was designed to determine whether (1) creativity training using behavior modification techniques would produce significant gains in test scores of experimental over control subjects; (2) conditioned skills would generalize to a different problem operation--for which training was not given; and (3) training in fluency and flexibility…

This study attempted (1) to identify the auding levels of achievement of first grade children, (2) to compare the auding achievement of children in the first grade who had 1 year of pre-primary instruction with children in the first grade as their first year of systematic schooling, and (3) to explore the extent of the relationships between the…

When applying for federal funding of an academic project, the writing of the proposal is important and should include a description of the institution and its population, a statement of the problem to be alleviated, an outline of the proposed attack on the problem, a specific catalog of each necessary item, and an itemized statement of the…

Developed for a high school quinmester unit on comparative biography, this guide provides the teacher with strategies to aid students in examining biography from "Plutarch's Lives" and Cellini's "Autobiography" to Nabokoc's "Speak, Memory." Special emphasis is placed on comparison of biographies of the same person and…

Outlined in the brochure are the language arts, motor perception, and curriculum modification components of Project Success (Nebraska), a program funded by Title III for elementary level students with specific language disabilities (SLD). Numerous cartoons and photographs are included. Characteristics such as reading slowly through having an…

Communication theory, classical rhetoric, and love of language are three major roots that may inform and stimulate elementary speech teachers. First, books, puppets, and painted illustrations may be useful in teaching communication theory. For example, children may be made aware of the paralinguistic potential by working with puppets, allowing the…

One of a series prepared by the Hawaii Newspaper Agency, this teaching guide offers 100 ideas for using the daily newspaper to teach lower elementary classes language arts, social studies, and mathematics. The 100 ideas may be adapted to either group or individual instruction; however, the teachers highly recommend individualized instruction. (SW)

One of a series prepared by the Hawaii Newspaper Agency, this teaching guide offers suggestions on using the newspaper as an instructional aid in the classroom. Following a list of do's and don'ts for teachers who plan to introduce the newspaper to students, this booklet contains general ideas on how to teach students in the language arts and how…

Designed to assess the ability of subjects to apply concrete operations to data in a reading format, and to determine if there is any difference with regard to type of paragraph or type of question, this test consists of four short paragraphs, each of which established one of the following operations: an additive classification, a multiplicative…

Designed to investigate how the beginning reader understands the antecedent/anaphora relationship in written discourse, this test contains four stories which were drawn from basal readers and modified so that the categories of pronouns were represented in proportion to their occurrence in the basal readers. Stories were further modified so that…