This volume contains evaluation reports of 1967-68 elementary school activities in the Los Angeles Unified School District, funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Included are all components which continued throughout the school year or were extended into the 1968 summer session. Elementary level activities, serving…

Several practical suggestions or guidelines for deriving objectives in traditionally difficult curriculum areas (written and oral communication, fine arts, social sciences, and humanities) are presented in this paper. The author believes that educators do not know how well they can define important, teachable objectives in these areas until they…

Models of record keeping strategies for reading and writing are presented in this booklet. "Why Records Should Be Kept" discusses the importance and advantages of keeping accurate records of pupil progress; "Commercially Available Materials" lists many of the record systems available from commercial textbook publishers; "Record-Keeping for…

In order to foster skills which would facilitate disadvantaged children's ability to learn to read, Buchanan and Sullivan developed the Readiness for Language Arts program published by the Behavioral Research Laboratories (BRL). A pilot study was run (1) to test the effectiveness of the BRL programmed materials on Head Start children and (2) to…

Implementation is the key to the success of a total reading program in any school system. Before beginning implementation, however, there are two prerequisite considerations which the author discusses here. The first is that there needs to be a program which is carefully defined by teaching and supervisory personnel. And the second is that the…

One of a series prepared by the Hawaii Newspaper Agency, this teaching guide offers suggestions for using the newspaper to teach English to nonnative speakers. Recommendations include teaching language through culture--not taking anything for granted in teaching English as a second language--and techniques for analyzing newspaper ads, headlines,…

This report displays and briefly describes the set of professional competencies and other learning outcomes that comprise the objectives for elementary majors enrolled in the Indiana University competency-based teacher education program known as RELATE (Reading and Language Arts Teacher Education). This report is divided into 10 units and lists…

The importance of the accumulating fund of language-related information available to teachers is the result of several developments: (1) There has been an increase in the amount of available research data; (2) The computer has made possible research previously impossible to design; (3) Data are more readily available through centers with acronymic…

In the last decade, curriculum specialists in the Language Arts have expanded the field to include listening. A compelling reason for increasing the listening training of first grade and preschool children lies in their "listening readiness." They are required to listen for information in order to learn, follow directions, participate in…

GRADES OR AGES: Senior High School. SUBJECT MATTER: Language arts. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The subject matter for the program has been divided into two major areas: writing and language, literature and humanities. Students are required to take one course from each area in each quarter. The first part of the guide includes an…

The personal-growth model of the language arts, based on views expressed at the 1966 Dartmouth Seminar, emphasizes creative drama as important in contributing to children's language development. However, any increase in creative drama within language arts programs is jeopardized by current conditions, which include limited economic resources,…

Help kids create poems, stories and plays orally and they'll be readier to write. (Editor)

Developers of language arts programs for the gifted need to examine language structure, language function, and motivational activities to develop syntactical modeling, vocabulary, spelling, and creative writing. (DB)

In Language Arts program attention should be given to oral communication and listening skills as well as reading skills.

As a project, one literature class sent ballots to 260 schools and asked the children to vote for their favorite book.