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Direct linkNational Council of Teachers of English, 2015
For the over 25 million students enrolled in America's colleges and universities, postsecondary writing instruction is critical for success in college and beyond. In writing courses, students gain experience analyzing expectations for writing held by different audiences and practice meeting those expectations. This experience contributes…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Writing Instruction, Educational Principles, Language Arts
Oak Park Public School District 97, IL. – 1984
The purpose of this curriculum outline is to define the basic language arts requirements for junior high school students in the Oak Park (Illinois) school district. For grades 7 and 8 the topics covered in mechanics, spelling, capitalization, punctuation, parts of speech, language usage, and sentence style are outlined. In addition, a summary of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Guides, Junior High Schools, Language Arts
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation and Records Branch. – 1988
This booklet provides Grade 6 teachers, administrators, and students with samples of students' writing that exemplify the criteria used to score students' written responses on the June 1988 Grade 6 English Language Arts Achievement Test. The writing assignment required students to read the beginning of a story and use their imaginations to…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Emond, Susie; And Others – 1983
To determine the characteristics of, problems with, and teachers' attitudes toward the elementary language arts curriculum, a survey was distributed to 160 elementary teachers (101 teachers responded; 86 females and 15 males--a 63% rate of return). Results showed that teachers perceived no difficulties communicating either with other teachers…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Evaluation, Discipline, Dramatics
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1988
Prepared to assist administrators and other developers of curriculum at district and building levels, this syllabus outlines general criteria for an effective integrated curriculum in English language arts, suggests the instructional objectives that need to be addressed, and provides direction for the evaluation of student progress and program…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Language Arts
Download full textEpstein, Joyce L.; Salinas, Karen Clark – 1990
A literature review was conducted in an effort to locate programs that could improve opportunities for learning for middle graders, and particularly educationally disadvantaged middle graders. Of the more than 200 programs that were reviewed, about 80 were identified as having promising components for middle grades educators. Section I discusses…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary School Curriculum, Intermediate Grades
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1987
Part 2 of the Alberta (Canada) Education's "Program of Studies for Elementary Schools 1978" (amended 1981), this bulletin describes the planned design, parts, and scoring of the grade six English language arts achievement test to be written in June 1988, and based on curriculum specifications for an integration of thinking and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Critical Thinking, Educational Testing, Elementary Education
