This teaching guide for the Batavia (New York) City Schools outlines the English program at the junior high level and describes each course, its behavioral objectives, and suggested instructional materials and activities for use in the course. Following an introduction and a general explanation of the department's goals and methods of…

This curriculum guide provides a systematic sequence of experiences in the language arts for students in kindergarten trhough the ninth grade. The guide is organized in two main sections: (1) A Continuum of Skills, with divisions on decoding, critical skills in factual material and literature, handwriting, spelling, and grammar; and (2) Child…

This study is concerned with the concept of rhetorical stance: the interrelationships among speaker, content, and audience in a communication situation. It is hypothesized that when the rhetorical stance model is applied to the secondary English curriculum, the teaching of literature will improve. This hypothesis is confirmed by evidence gained in…

This issue of "The Leaflet" focuses on the black experience. Included are four poems by Lawrence Johnson, "Little Girl Black,""Be's That Way Sometime,""My Blackness," and "Three Songs of Freedom"; two papers originally presented at the 1973 New England Association of Teachers of English Conference, "Teaching English to the Disadvantaged in Large…

This monograph contains 47 lesson ideas that elementary and secondary English teachers may find useful for classroom activities. Each item describes the aim of the lesson and the grade level and provides suggestions on how to carry out the lesson. Some of the activities suggested include "Advertising a Play,""Write Your Own Obituary,""Studying the…

The first step in ascertaining the content areas in which prospective high school English teachers need preparation is to conduct a survey of teachers already in the schools. In this survey, teachers would rate both the importance of each content area in their teaching and their competence as teachers in those areas. After information from the…

This two-volume curriculum guide, designed to meet the functional reading needs of Maryland's 182,000 public school students in grades one through twelve, contains objectives, activities, and materials for classroom use. The guide, part of a reading program started in 1972 and described in "Effective Reading Programs...," is used by…

Designed for use by teachers of mentally gifted children, this book is one of a group of curriculum materials prepared by the California State Department of Education for a project on the mentally gifted. The contents of this book on literature are divided into four chapters, each of which deals with some aspect of literature instruction in…

This paper discusses the role of linguistics in educational planning and argues that, in order for sociolinguistic principles to be introduced and implemented, it will be necessary for sociolinguists to remember the failures of linguistics in the past, to rethink their attitudes concerning the relationship of their discipline to education, and to…

This bulletin is one of four containing reprints of working papers used in developing the teacher performance specifications for the Georgia educational model for the preparation of elementary school teachers (ED 025 491). "Teacher performance specifications" are defined as descriptions of behaviors regarded by the Georgia study as…

Evaluation was made of the Wilson School District's oral Spanish and oral English development programs for preschool and first-grade children with limited proficiency in English and/or Spanish. The program consisted of 3 major components: an English Oral Language Program (EOLP) for children using nonstandard English, a Spanish Oral Language…

This study investigated the effects of using three strategies for reading on the comprehension of fiction and nonfiction selections by fifth graders. The subjects (N=270) were grouped into three different reading ability levels and randomly assigned to the three strategies for reading: (1) subjects read the entire selection and then answered 10…

This curriculum guide for kindergarten has a format that is highly readable and easy for a teacher to use. For each area of the curriculum (math, language arts, science, social science, and art) specific objectives and accompanying activities are provided. Detailed directions help the teacher enable children to get the maximum benefit from each…

While the increased availability of specific materials designed for language arts curriculums offers teachers convenience, it is important to continue to evaluate materials according to their usefulness as tools to aid the teaching-learning process. Language arts materials can be classified according to function: (1) those that encourage imitating…

The four lectures in this publication were composed with the common concern for making the study of high school English more effective and more delightful. Papers are (1) "Robert Frost's Chicken Feathers" by C. W. Geyer (discusses the influence of oral folklore and humor on Frost's poetry); (2) "Nature in Literature" by Gerhard T. Alexis; (3)…