Trade and textbooks received at the Educational Materials Center between January 1968 and October 1969 and related to English language and literature programs for elementary and secondary schools are represented in this annotated bibliography. The over-70 textbooks and textbook series are grouped under four headings: language study (composition,…

In a previous study, (ED 038 175) Mississippi children, who were a year younger (3 1/2 to 4 1/2) than Alabama children, had scored higher than the Alabama children on posttesting. This supplementary report gives the results of further investigation of this finding. Explanations may be: (1) the younger children began with higher IQ scores; (2) more…

A comprehensive ESEA/Title I program of small-group reading instruction for 500 elementary school children is described, and the results of this Intensive Reading Instructional Teams program are presented. Decoding, comprehension, vocabulary development, and independent reading are emphasized as a part of the team approach. Successful activities…

Establishment of Southwest Minnesota State College, a new 4-year college, has made possible the creation of an American Language Skills course to replace traditional freshmen English. Program emphasis is on integration and coordination of reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Students receive lectures on the reading process and on the…

This study recorded and analyzed data from 758 questionnaires completed by public elementary teachers from seven counties in West Virginia. The purposes of the study were to survey the time spent in oral language instruction, to survey amount of teacher training in methods of language arts instruction, and to examine the relationship of teacher…

The purpose of the study was to determine the effectiveness of a "packaged" language development program, on the general cognitive, intellectual, and language development of preschool children. A selected basic language program (Buchanan Language Readiness Program) and supplementary materials (other language programs), were used to…

Outlines for the development of a language arts curriculum in the elementary grades are presented in this state curriculum guide, which can also serve as a reference for the individual teacher of the communication skills. The philosophy behind the guide, suggested uses for it, and student evaluation procedures are followed by individual teaching…

Teacher recommended items for the gifted include books in the subject areas of language, social studies, science, and mathematics; all are classified as either elementary, junior high or senior high level. Additional items listed are art books, records, films, magazines and newspapers, and reference materials. A guide to publishers is provided;…

Four principles of language arts teaching in the open school are, first, "school" becomes "workshop," where emphasis is on giving students opportunities for self-discovery, self-discipline, and self-control. Second, "teachers" become "learning facilitators," so that instead of thinking about what he wants to teach, the teacher focuses on the…

The characteristics and components of a competency-based teacher education program within which the skills for teaching reading and language arts are developed and implemented are identified in this paper. A four-phase systemic curriculum model developed at the University of North Florida is presented. Twenty-five enabling objectives were written…

This paper reports on a two-year longitudinal study which determined the relative effectiveness of three methods of coordinating language arts instructional procedures and compared these methods with two methods in which components were not coordinated. The five treatment groups, to which 789 first grade students were randomly assigned, consisted…

This paper discusses a six-year study, the first of which was a two-year language arts program that began with four year olds, and the second part of which was a four-year effort to trace the progress made in reading by children who participated in that program as compared with the reading achievement of classmates who had not been participants.…

This booklet is designed as a guide for experimentation with the course of study in English-speech language arts for senior high schools. The theme for the twelfth-year course is "The Individual's Quest for Universal Values," and the emphasis in twelfth-year language-arts classes is on values of the inner life, on values in the arts and sciences,…

One of the major concerns of the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Advisory Council of the Career Opportunities Program (COP) is that traditional methods of recruitment and training are largely insufficient and leave much to be desired in quantity and quality of instructional staffs in low-income areas. As a result of discussions between the COP Project…

This issue of the "Arizona English Bulletin" provides ideas, suggests materials, and discusses techniques that may prove useful to English teachers who are also responsible for teaching intermediate, junior, and senior high school students how to read. The contents include "Reading, Language, and Thinking,""A Good English Teacher Is a Teacher of…