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Arnold, Sarah Louise; Kittredge, George Lyman – Ginn and Company, 1907
This textbook is designed to guide children to an intelligent appreciation and enjoyment of good English, to help them speak and write correctly, and to introduce them to the study of grammar. The book provides selections from good authors, in prose and verse, together with full instructions for their use in different ways. Exercises for reading,…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Textbooks, Reading, Writing (Composition)
Arnold, Sarah Louise; Kittredge, George Lyman – Ginn and Company, 1900
This textbook is designed to guide children to an intelligent appreciation and enjoyment of good English, to help them speak and write correctly, and to introduce them to the study of grammar. The book provides selections from good authors, in prose and verse, together with full instructions for their use in different ways. Exercises for reading,…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Textbooks, Reading, Writing (Composition)
The Mother Tongue. Book I: Lessons in Speaking, Reading, and Writing English. Revised Edition [1908]
Arnold, Sarah Louise; Kittredge, George Lyman – Ginn and Company, 1908
This textbook is designed to guide children to an intelligent appreciation and enjoyment of good English, to help them speak and write correctly, and to introduce them to the study of grammar. The book provides selections from good authors, in prose and verse, together with full instructions for their use in different ways. Exercises for reading,…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Textbooks, Reading, Writing (Composition)
Arnold, Sarah Louise; Kittredge, George Lyman – Ginn and Company, 1905
"The Mother Tongue" is introduced to the British teacher as an excellent example of the best way of teaching a vernacular in the early stage. This edition has been revised to make it more completely at home in an English schoolroom, but in essentials it remains the work of its American authors. This textbook is designed to guide children…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Textbooks, Reading, Writing (Composition)
Arnold, Sarah Louise; Kittredge, George Lyman – Ginn and Company, 1910
This textbook is designed to guide children to an intelligent appreciation and enjoyment of good English, to help them speak and write correctly, and to introduce them to the study of grammar. The book is divided into three Parts, intended for use in the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Years of school respectively. This edition has been carefully revised…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, English Instruction

Dependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC. – 1977
This booklet identifies the learner competencies expected of students with varying linguistic abilities attending Department of Defense Dependents Schools throughout the world. The statements are banded in segments of kindergarten through grade four, grade five through grade eight, and grade nine through grade twelve. Both instructional objectives…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Reiff, Tana, Ed. – Adult Student Magazine, 1981
Written for, by, and about adult students, this issue consists of a series of articles and features dealing with learning English as a native and as a second language. The first section contains six articles covering the following aspects of English and language learning: English as an interesting language that reflects the freedom of its…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Adults, Behavioral Objectives

Brooke, Robert – College Composition and Communication, 1988
Suggests an alternative understanding of imitation, according to which a student learns by imitating another person, rather than a text or process. Proposes that composition teaching works when it effectively models an identity which students can accept. (MS)
Descriptors: College English, Directed Reading Activity, English Instruction, Freshman Composition