This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 459 students in grades 1-3 at 15 elementary schools. The program employs a diagnostic-prescriptive approach to instruction in a nongraded setting through the use of the Lippincott Basic Reading program. When a child enters the program, he is introduced to a decoding…

Student satisfaction was used as an interim success criterion of competency-based instruction in this evaluation of the 1972-73 Reading and Language Arts Teacher Education (RELATE) project. Project RELATE is a field-oriented, competency-based teacher education curriculum developed by the Indiana University system. Students (N=30) enrolled as…

In order to provide 11th and 12th grade English students (in both standard and academic classes) with a more stimulating set of course offerings, a program was developed which incorporates one required course, communication skills, to be taken during the first school quarter and three elective courses to be taken during the remainder of the school…

The secondary English curriculum outlined in this guide consists of a required course during the freshman year followed by three years in the elective program, during which each student is expected to complete a one semester course in each of the three basic areas of language, literature, and writing plus three more courses from any one area. This…

This issue of "Kansas English" focus on composition and language study, kindergarten through grade six. The articles and authors are "Evaluating Process and Product in Children's Writing" by Robert L. Hillerich, "Written Language Development and Instruction of Elementary School Children" by Lester S. Golub, "From a Reading Desk" by Myrline…

This report summarizes an education workshop held in Anchorage, Alaska, in January 1969 by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The immediate objectives were to encourage group discussion, share and evaluate ideas and learning experiences, and make preliminary plans for an educational program which would provide for the development and practice of…

This publication is designed for use in Seattle, Washington at the intermediate, junior high, and senior high school levels. Its main goal is to extend the classroom into the museums, art galleries, parks, rivers, mountains and similar resources in such a way that a wide variety of subjects can interact to provide enriching experiences. The…

One experimental and three varied control groups (a total of 340 fourth graders) were used to investigate the effectiveness of a listening skill developmental unit produced by the Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI). Results from an analysis of the effectiveness of the unit in developing skills of listening comprehension,…

In a study of the relation between listening performance and reading performance, a standardized listening test ("Sequential Test of Educational Progress") and a reading test ("Stanford Achievement Battery of Tests") were administered to 247 sixth-grade pupils in Decatur, Alabama. The problem of the study was divided into three parts: (1)…

A study was designed to measure the effect of an individually prescribed instruction (IPI) program on the cognitive achievement of fourth and fifth graders. The 141 IPI students studied had been exposed for two years to the program which involved 600 students in two schools; they were compared with 198 non-IPI students from control schools matched…

This report contains 20 summary-descriptions of curriculum programs and materials selected by the Institute for possible inclusion in its synthesis and validation of a K-6 process-promoting curriculum. Each description includes information on the developer and publisher plus a list of references (mostly published descriptions and critiques).…

Elementary school administrators, suggested by state superintendents of public instruction, and names selected at random made up the population of this study concerning oral language arts. Responses to a questionnaire based on review of instructional materials provided six major insights into the status of speech instruction: (1) The term "speech"…

This collection of reprinted speeches delivered at the 1967 Ohio Conference on Disadvantaged Children covers the following topics: learning as the discovery of personal meaning, occupational and vocational training, characteristics of successful Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I Programs, the inherent difficulties of cultural…

The traditional content of teacher preparation courses in reading and language arts is compared with competency-based courses which use as a base a working definition of reading, psycholinguistic aspects of the reading process, and certain linguistic features, such as the language development of children, various grammars, and dialect variances.…

Designed to encourage sustained independent writing, this book demonstrates ways that children were stimulated to invent their own Utopias, their own religions, new ways of fighting wars, and different schools. Contents include the following: "Traveling to an Imaginary Place; "Religion"; "Question of Continuity in Writing"; "War"; "Moving Toward a…