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Download full textHARRIS, ALBERT J.; SERWER, BLANCHE L. – 1966
THE RESULTS OF A STUDY OF THE TIME ALLOCATED TO VARIOUS ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE ARTS BY 48 TEACHERS OF 1,600 FIRST-GRADE DISADVANTAGED URBAN CHILDREN IN NEW YORK CITY ARE REPORTED. TWELVE CLASSES EACH WERE ASSIGNED TO ONE OF FOUR METHODS USED IN THE CRAFT PROJECT (COMPARING READING APPROACHES TO FIRST-GRADE TEACHING WITH EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 1
Connecticut State Dept. of Education, Hartford. – 1968
This bulletin, the fourth in a series, describes the Demonstration City Project in Danbury, Connecticut, a model school system designed to research and develop federally-funded programs in close cooperation with educational consultants. Central to the project's goal of turning potential into accomplishment and bringing children up to grade level,…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Experimental Schools, Federal Programs
Laffey, James L., Comp. – 1968
A bibliography, with descriptive abstracts, of articles dealing with research on reading in the content fields is presented. The listing is divided into two parts: a bibliography from research literature which focuses on general content reading skills and an "Other Subjects" bibliography selected from literature dealing with areas other than the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Language Arts, Mathematics
Wagner, Betty Jane – 1977
This paper reveals ways in which teachers can use roles and role playing to facilitate children's understanding and expression, by giving an example of a drama in which the teacher assumed a role. In this dramatic situation, a group of eight-year-olds and nine-year-olds was asked to assume the roles of American Indians whose valley was threatened…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Elementary Education, Fine Arts, Interdisciplinary Approach
Lockette, Agnes – 1977
This paper stresses the essential role of concrete play experiences in the early childhood curriculum. The paper examines the value of play, shows how to facilitate language arts development through planned play activities, notes that play provides the early sensory experiences that are the foundations for language arts development, points out the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Concept Formation, Curriculum Design, Early Childhood Education
Verner, Zenobia Brown; Willis, Bettie – 1977
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of the newspaper as instructional material to promote classroom verbal interaction. Eight experimental classes (two each of tenth-grade English, sixth-grade reading and algebra, and eleventh-grade American history) used the newspaper for one week as an instructional tool to reach previously…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials
Stansell, John C. – 1978
Learning centers should be considered a fundamental strategy in the instruction of language skills, functioning more in the mainstream of the language arts curriculum than on the periphery. In view of the fact that language is founded on thought that is derived from the learner's experience, learning centers provide a language experience approach,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Language Arts
Milner, Joseph O. – 1978
A relationship is established in this paper between three increasingly broad curriculum matters: Kohlberg's moral development concept; Sample's and Ornstein's theory of cerebral hemispheresity; and legislator-mandated competency testing. The interplay which must develop between the findings in the fields of cognitive psychology and neuropsychology…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Heinig, Ruth Beall – 1977
Pragmatics, or functional communication, refers to the transactions that occur between people, or the actual performance of language in social contexts. This paper discusses several functional communication theories, applies these theories to the education of children, and offers a number of practical techniques for teaching creative dramatics.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Creative Dramatics, Elementary Education
Sieben, J. Kenneth – 1977
This speech acknowledges that competency-based education is prominent today because the general public seeks accountability; it wants results in education. After cautioning about the danger of reducing the humanities to a measurable system, the report points out how behavioral objectives can relate advantageously to the teaching of English. It…
Descriptors: Accountability, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Competency Based Teacher Education
Hollifield, John H. – 1977
This report describes the development of a complete set of curriculum materials that uses the Teams-Games-Tournament (TGT) instructional process for elementary language arts instruction for grades four through six. The TGT instructional process is a cooperative group-teaching method that requires materials to be objective based and presented in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Games
Silverman, Charles, Ed. – 1976
In the spring of 1975, the High/Scope Productive Language Assessment Tasks (PLAT) were administered to virtually all second-grade and third-grade children at five centers, who had been enrolled in the Follow Through program since entering school; the PLAT was also administered to groups of non-Follow-Through children at four of five sites.…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Research, Educationally Disadvantaged, Language Arts
Scruggs, James A. – 1976
Attended by migrant personnel representing 25 counties participating in the Florida Migratory Child Compensatory Program, the conference aimed to explore teaching techniques which have been successful in meeting the migrant child's needs, to provide opportunities for the exchange of information on effective program designs, and to develop plans to…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Compensatory Education, Conferences, Early Childhood Education
Peer reviewedBraun, Carl, Ed.; Riffel, J. A., Ed. – Manitoba Journal of Education, 1975
Articles in this issue are concerned with reading instruction aimed at preventing reading disability. Topics discussed in the six articles are: classroom practices which aggravate reading problems, a model for individualized reading instruction which allows for several levels of individualization, a data based instructional system for improving…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Childhood Interests, Dictionaries, Educational Games
Breneman, Beth – 1975
This paper describes the value of the cloze procedure for teaching language and composition, classroom diagnosis of language difficulties, and research into the process of composition. Any aspect of language structure, including word order, form class words, connectives, inflectional endings, and function words, could be taught through use of the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Diagnostic Tests, Language Arts, Language Handicaps
