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Gray, Ann S.; Shriver, David K. – 1978
The handbook provides general information about the resource program for learning disabled (LD) students at the secondary level in Augusta County, Virginia. Noted in the section on program philosophy is the intention to provide academic skills and coping strategies through a unified combination of remedial and compensatory teaching. The section on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Coping, Curriculum
Call-Chronicle Newspapers, Inc. Allentown, PA. – 1981
More than 300 ideas are offered in this book as effective ways of using the newspaper for teaching in various subject areas. The first portion of the book contains a message to the teacher, a pretest for students in grades 5 through 12, and a section on introducing students to newspaper components and terminology. The major part of the book…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Consumer Education, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Download full textNearine, Robert J. – 1981
Higher Horizons (HH) 100 is a program providing groups of 100 underachieving secondary school students in Hartford, Connecticut, with an integrated program of academic, cultural, and counseling services designed to develop and improve their basic skills in language and mathematics, self-concept, and adjustment to school. The eight small cluster…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Counseling Services, Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged Youth
Strange, Dorothy Flanders; Kebbel, Gary W. – 1978
Most of the mechanical and content errors in the sentences written by journalism students can be attributed to four faulty patterns that can be traced to errors in the thinking process: fragmented sentence parts, personification, bureaucratic coding ("officialese"), and compressed sentences. While acceptable in spoken communication where…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer), Error Analysis (Language)
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. – 1976
Designed for use by local schools in developing language arts programs, this guide is organized into eight sections. An introductory section contains a rationale for language arts in the school program, discussions of the characteristics of a good language arts program and of student language rights, lists of general communication goals for…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Elective Courses
Petreshene, Susan S. – 1978
Practical, classroom-tested ideas for developing classroom learning centers are presented in this book. The sixteen chapters deal with the following topics: an overview of learning centers and individualization, basic considerations in setting up a learning center, getting started, mechanics of operating learning centers, room arrangement and…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Discovery Learning, Elementary Education, Handwriting
Schaefer, Larry, Ed.; Hungerford, Nancy, Ed. – 1978
The environmental education activities package for grades 6-8 contains activities in the following curriculum areas: (1) social science; (2) science; (3) language arts; and (4) mathematics. The activities are divided into seven sections based on seven environmental topics: (1) ecosystems; (2) population; (3) energy and resources; (4) economics,…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Curriculum, Ecology, Elementary Secondary Education
Oakes, Jeannie – 1980
After reviewing the importance of understanding tracking in terms of academic achievement and educational inequality, this paper describes a study that explored the day to day educational experiences of students in tracked classes and in heterogeneously grouped classes. The investigation focused on curricular content, instructional practices, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Curriculum, Educational Quality, English Instruction
Kuntz, Patricia S. – 1979
This index presents references to 413 children's textbooks and tradebooks about Africa. All of the entries were published in the United States between 1970 and 1979. The main purpose of the index is to aid elementary and secondary social studies and language arts classroom teachers as they develop curriculum for African area study programs.…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, African Literature, Area Studies
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. Div. of Instructional Services. – 1975
This handbook, designed for the language arts teacher, is based on the ideas that content area teachers must be responsible for specialized reading skills within their content areas and that reading instruction should not cease after the first six grades. Specific techniques and activities are suggested for developing the correlation between…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials
Offenberg, Robert M.; And Others – 1979
This study was designed to evaluate Project PACT (Parents and Children Together), which was developed to complement the existing Let's Be Amigos Model A bilingual program at Potter-Thomas School in Philadelphia, by involving Hispanic parents in the education of their children. The PACT project consists of two major programs: (1) a summer program…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adults
PAGE, SARAH M.; AND OTHERS – 1967
A LANGUAGE ARTS PROJECT WHICH SERVES 1378 DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN FROM GRADES ONE THROUGH SIX IN 23 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS IS EVALUATED IN THIS REPORT. RELEVANT INFORMATION IS PRESENTED UNDER THE FOLLOWING RUBRICS--HISTORY OF THE PROJECT, OBJECTIVES OF PROJECT TEACHING, PERSONNEL INFORMATION FOR THE TEACHER, CLASS ORGANIZATION, PROJECT TEACHER…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students, Exhibits, Federal Programs
COLETTE, SISTER M. – 1964
THIS SIXTH VOLUME OF RESEARCH ABSTRACTS PRESENTS REPORTS OF 35 RESEARCH STUDIES COMPLETED BY CANDIDATES FOR THE MASTER'S DEGREE AT THE CARDINAL STRITCH COLLEGE IN 1964. TWENTY-NINE STUDIES ARE CONCERNED WITH READING, AND SIX ARE CONCERNED WITH THE EDUCATION OF THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED. OF THE READING STUDIES, FIVE PERTAIN TO THE JUNIOR HIGH LEVEL…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, History Instruction, Junior High Schools, Language Acquisition
RILING, MILDRED E. – 1965
THE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN LANGUAGE STRUCTURE OF FOURTH- AND SIXTH-GRADERS WAS ANALYZED TO DETERMINE THE INFLUENCE OF CERTAIN VARIABLES. DATA WERE OBTAINED FOR 300 CHILDREN WHO WERE ORGANIZED INTO 3 GROUPS--WHITE CHILDREN IN GRADES 4 AND 6, AND NEGRO CHILDREN IN GRADE 4. COMPARISONS WERE MADE BETWEEN THE LANGUAGE OF THE GROUPS, TYPES, SEX, GRADES,…
Descriptors: Black Students, Elementary School Students, Factor Analysis, Geographic Regions
HAYES, ROBERT B.; NEMETH, JOSEPH S. – 1965
A COMPARISON WAS MADE OF FOUR DIFFERENT METHODS OF TEACHING BEGINNING READING. THE PROGRAMS STUDIED WERE (1) AN ECLECTIC, "WHOLE WORD" READING PROGRAM PRESENTED IN SCOTT, FORESMAN PUBLICATIONS, (2) A "PHONIC" READING PROGRAM PUBLISHED BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT, (3) A COMBINATION ECLECTIC, "WHOLE WORD - PHONIC" READING…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Evaluation, Grade 1
