Intended for regular teachers with mildly handicapped learners, the handbook covers techniques for adapting instruction, for compensatory instruction, for remedial instruction, and for teaching basic survival skills. An introduction surveys types of appropriate modifications for mainstreaming. Adaptive techniques discussed include the following:…

This report examines data, on English language arts courses, generated by the Illinois Census of Secondary School Course Offerings and Enrollments conducted in l981-82. Data from the 1976-77 course census are also presented to illustrate stability or shifts in course offerings and enrollments. The first half of the document discusses the summary…

The Washington State Legislature requires that a sample of public school eleventh grade students be tested at least once every 4 years in the basic skills of reading, language arts and mathematics. A statewide assessment of eleventh grade achievement was made in 1981 using the California Achievement Test Form C. This report describes the…

Students in a high school creative writing class increased their awareness of the many aspects of a career choice by using interview questions cited in the article to develop verisimilitude in short-story characters they created. (AJ)

Awareness is the first prerequisite for teaching responsibility, says the author, and a major objective of the teacher should be to teach children, our future citizens, to be aware. (Author/RK)

Discusses several sources that deal with the affective development of children via reading and literature. (TO)

Ninety-one teachers in three elementary schools, kindergarten through sixth grade, participated in a study of the relationships between teachers' educational preparation in the area of children's literature and the role of children's literature in their classrooms. Each teacher completed a questionnaire about educational preparation, reading of…

The first of a series of documents about Project Success, an enrichment program for gifted elementary students, describes identification and evaluation procedures for the four project components: language arts, electricity, marine science, and art. Included among sample identification measures are a checklist on general characteristics and a test…

This document details the proceedings of the Fifth Meeting of the Steering Committee of the SEAMEC Regional Centre for Education in Science and Mathematics (RECSAM) convened in Tokyo, Japan, from March 31-April 7, 1969. From this meeting, steps were taken to broaden the membership of the International Advisory Council, ways and means of…

This article discusses features of spoken and written language which are seldom systematically taught, and outlines a methodology for the teaching of reading comprehension. (AM)

Part of the Grade Teacher special report, "Linguistics and the Language Arts.