Reported in this document are the evaluation results of five model teacher inservice language arts/reading projects geographically dispersed and operationally unique. Contents include an introduction describing the joint efforts of the Bureau of Educational Personnel Development and the National Council of Teachers of English in carrying out the…

Designed to investigate the understanding of the linguistic form that connects a clause to another clause or another word, the test contains four sections. The students are instructed to read the first part of a sentence and then choose the answer which best completes that sentence. Each multiple choice item contains the correct answer and three…

Designed to assess teachers" attitudes toward a variety of objectives for teaching drama, the "Place of Drama" questionnaire contains 32 items. A principal component factor analysis of results from a large-scale tryout yielded the following categories among the items: noncognitive personal development, ethical growth, literary…

Based on research findings which suggest that stop and nasal sounds are difficult to discriminate by some children in the beginning years of school, this test is designed to appraise the ability of children to discriminate fine differentiations of stop and nasal sounds in minimal word-pair items. The major criteria for choice of test items were…

These indexes, a set of measures of growth in syntactic fluency, are derived from the research in written syntax of Hunt and Christensen. They are a means of linguistic analysis of each T-unit (independent clause and its modifiers) in a writing sample. The indexes include: mean T-unit length; number of words in free modifiers, final position only;…

Designed to measure comprehension of intact and deleted sentence structures corresponding to selected deletion transformation rules, this test is intended to be used with primary age children. Eight test passages were constructed at each of the first reader and high second reader levels from stories in the Ginn Basic Reader so that each passage…

A block of time commencing at 9:00 a.m. and ending at 11:00 a.m. for each school day of the week was set aside for instruction in social studies, language arts, and audiovisual education. This blocking required that students move into the three specialized areas of instruction as special material was available in the class-laboratory rooms. Team…

Presented is the report of the gifted child project, conducted in the Decatur public schools, Alabama, from 1969 to 1970, consisting of an inservice program for 83 teachers and administrators and a pilot project in language arts for students in grades 9 and 10 in one high school. It is reported that the three teachers from the pilot project will…

This document is a guide for a half- year elective course offering secondary students the opportunity to examine writers' insights on environments in a variety of literary types. In addition, language and composition experiences are developed utilizing the communications media. Though representative literary selections are suggested for…

The purpose of this book is to illustrate how the principles revealed by linguistic research can be translated into classroom practice. Emphasis is placed on: (1) a methodology which offers opportunities for children to create knowledge based on their observations of language tested against their intiutive speech, and (2) a content which is…

The inability of the emotionally handicapped youngster to respond appropriately to sense stimuli is shown by cluttered, inaccurate, or aggravated reactions. For him, school is full of frustrations and failures. He must be provided with relevant motivational and pleasurable learning activities to interest him long enough for teaching to take place.…

Developed by the Oregon Elementary English Project, this curriculum unit on language games and activities is intended for grades one and two. The games and activities are designed to make the child aware of language indirectly by requiring him to construct sentences of various kinds, observe relations between parts of sentences and between words,…

Developed by the Oregon Elementary English Project, this curriculum unit on poetry is intended for grades one and two. The primary objective of the unit is to encourage the appreciation of poetry among children. The suggested questions or exercises are limited to simple comprehension or discussion questions; no attempt is made at any sort of…

Developed by the Oregon Elementary English Project, this curriculum unit on stories is intended for grades one and two. The purpose of the unit is to build in students a foundation for enjoyment of literature. The suggested questions or exercises that deal with the stories are limited to simple comprehension or discussion questions; no attempt is…

In order to determine the relevancy of linguistics for contemporary elementary school English instruction, three related considerations were explored: (1) definitional dimensions of English, (2) identification of the basic nature of linguistics and of the work of the linguist, and (3) identification of the basic nature of contemporary elementary…