Intended for reluctant readers as well as for readers with a special interest in detective stories, this high school English course consists of the following eight units: the history of detective fiction, the psychology of violent crime, crime and society, the procedures of crime detection, the mind of the detective, analysis of the detective…

This booklet provides ideas for a multidisciplinary storytelling course designed to train fifth grade students to act as tutors for second grade students. The various sections of the booklet contain the following: the rationale and objectives for the course, hints on planning the course, an introduction to storytelling, suggestions for teaching…

One of a series of teaching guides produced by the Wisconsin Writing Project, this booklet focuses on suggestions for teaching reading and writing in elementary, middle, and high school language arts classrooms. The first section offers 16 reading/writing activities, a list of topics for language experience stories, and an annotated list of…

This compilation of statistics, opinions, and projections focuses on the state of children in contemporary society. A review of statistical data on the conditions of childhood includes data on child mortality rates, illiteracy, malnutrition, energy resources available to children, and childhood suicide. Teenage pregnancies, alcoholism and drug…

An advanced placement literature course for high school seniors that stresses the development of the techniques of literary and artistic criticism is described in this paper. Also set forth in the paper are the philosophy underlying the course, the course objectives, textbooks and other required materials, the method of evaluation, the teacher's…

The 198 titles in this bibliography were selected as representative of current developments in the teaching of English in England. The selections are arranged in 13 categories: general works, language and linguistics, the primary school, talking and listening, drama, writing English, teaching poetry, reading, the mass media, materials for the…

Maintaining that sentence-combining language experience is the single most beneficial tool currently available to improve student writing, this paper speculates about the value and effects of the adoption of the language experience approach across the English curriculum. It presents six tasks that need to be undertaken by teachers, researchers,…

THIS JOURNAL PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A YEAR FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF READING INSTRUCTION AT THE HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE LEVELS CONTAINS ORIGINAL ARTICLES, REVIEWS OF ARTICLES, AND AN EDITORIAL SECTION OF BRIEF STATEMENTS OF IDEAS AND PROBLEMS RELEVANT TO READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS INSTRUCTION. THE SPRING 1968 ISSUE PRESENTS A DISCUSSION OF 10 WAYS…

TEACHER EDUCATION THROUGH APPLIED METHODS (TEAM), AN EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM FOR THE INTEGRATION OF ELEMENTARY METHODS COURSES, IS DISCUSSED. SPECIALISTS WHO MAY FORM A TEACHING TEAM ARE OFTEN FROM THE AREAS OF LANGUAGE ARTS, MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, SOCIAL STUDIES, AND INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA. THE PURPOSES FOR DEVELOPING A TEAM APPROACH ARE TO REDUCE THE…

Problems associated with teaching English language arts to Mexican American pupils are examined. Attention is given to curriculum considerations, methodologies, and innovations for effecting success in language arts development for these children. The four major strategies discussed include: (1) readying the child for the common curriculum, (2)…

Los Angeles Unified School District elementary school activities funded during 1967-68 under Title I/ESEA are evaluated in this volume. English language arts and prekindergarten activities, the two major areas included in the evaluation reports, are divided into the following components which represent a 3-year continuing implementation: (1)…

This document is an end of the budget period report of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III Inservice Education and Curriculum Project conducted by the Linn County Board of Education in conjunction with seven other Iowa counties in order to "assist local schools in improving the school program in selected academic and service…

English teachers have a responsibility to interpret for students the current linguistic insights into language and to lead them in an open-minded inquiry involving (1) careful observation of language data, (2) translation of this observation into rule-like descriptions, and (3) verification of the rules to determine if revisions must be made. In…

Teachers in the content areas of the curriculum must expend effort and use ingenuity in motivating students to learn the literacy skills of listening, speaking, thinking, reading, writing, and computing. To foster this enthusiasm for learning, seven elements are essential in any teaching strategy: interests (knowing the students' interests and…

Communication and language arts are central in any consideration of the essential learning skills. This paper focuses on communication skills for fifth and sixth graders, particularly the language skills of speaking, reading, and writing for which schools assume major responsibility. The integral relationship between language abilities and…