The elective program for tenth grade academic English outlined in this document has been designed to improve students' attitudes toward and responses to the study of the language arts. The program consists of six minicourses, each of which covers a six-week period. The first course, required of all students, involves the study of communication…

The goal of this guide is to provide a secondary language arts curriculum which encompasses student centered, relevant learning experiences with equal attention given to reading, writing, thinking, and oral communication. The guide contains curriculum check lists for grades 7-12, reading skills check lists for reading levels 4-12, a reading…

These proceedings are published primarily for the purpose of helping teachers to improve their reading instruction. The contents include "Official Program"; "I Wish Children Literature" by Lee Bennett Hopkins, which discusses the importance of providing children with good reading materials; "Black English and Reading" by Ronald W. Bruton, which…

This conversation between Louis E. Haga and Harry Berger, Jr., is part of the National Humanities Faculty "Why Series." The discussion in this booklet touches not only on reading and writing, but on some of the cultural and structural consequences of typography and print literacy. Some of the other topics discussed include reading…

The language arts program presented in this guide is a two-year curriculum for the junior high school which may be used in either a teacher-centered or a student-centered approach. The emphasis is on a balance between grammar and writing study and literary study. Contents consist of an outline for a grammar and writing curriculum, an outline for a…

The teaching of literature and reading is explored in the four articles in this issue. Titles and authors of these articles are as follows: "Utopia and the Social Relevance of Reading Literature" by Patrick Brantlinger; "Free Reading in the High School English Class" by R. Baird Shuman; "Word Finds as a Reading 'Find'" by Barbara S. Ballirano; and…

The art of listening is no longer neglected, as may be seen by the materials (recreational and educational), articles, and book chapters which have come forth in the last five years. However, in order to improve communication among people, listening should be taught and teachers should integrate listening skill development into classroom…

This handbook for teachers contains language lessons for young children. Through sequencing and feedback, the program uses a direct method of teaching and learning standard English. It is an expository approach, in which progress is based on performance, rather than on the knowledge of rules. Each unit is organized so that language development and…

This language arts curriculum guide, principally designed for teaching culturally advantaged pupil of above-average intelligence, aims (1) to specify a relatedness between the subjects comprising the English language arts, (2) to specify behavioral objectives, (3) to suggest learning processes that allow pupils to order their inner feelings by…

In order for teachers to be of assistance to disturbed children it is necessary that they recognize behavioral manifestations indicative of emotional disturbances and become familiar with those approaches which have been attempted in in order to select the approach which appears most applicable to the individual child. The author describes the…

GRADES OR AGES: 7-12. SUBJECT MATTER: English language arts. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into two major sections, English language skills and course guidelines. The literature guidelines at junior high level cover mythology, non-fiction, the novel, and spoken arts; at senior high level they include wit and humor,…

This handbook describes the 1969-70 Region II West Virginia New Careers in Education Program which includes three training and development components: (1) a 4-week summer preservice institute for teachers (K-12) and teacher aides and a 1-week institute for principals; (2) weekly inservice seminars for teachers and aides, on-the-job training for…

The Tucson Early Education Program is working with "orchestrated instruction," a cooking experience which is an experimental attempt to pull together the various components of early education. Individual subskills such as arithmetic and language arts are learned for a larger project that the children are interested in, and skills are developed as…

The purpose of this project was to investigate the feasibility, reliability and optimal procedures for using "practitioner consensus" as a means of identifying competent language arts instructors. Practitioner consensus was defined as agreement among professional personnel regarding instructors' level of competence. The professional personnel of…

This booklet is a source of activities and instructional materials for teaching environmental education concepts in grades K-6. Contents are organized into the areas of language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies and are subdivided by suggested grade level. A listing of basic environmental understandings is referenced with the various…