Describes a three-week unit in which students read a biography of famous person, prepare a first-person narrative, make an appropriate costume, and record the video biography. Notes that students integrate reading, research, and speaking skills on their way to starring in their own one-person show. (RS)

Argues that newspapers provide a rich source of material to build listening, speaking, writing, spelling, and grammar skills. Describes 13 class activities using newspapers to work on punctuation, subject-verb agreement, identifying parts of speech, debating current issues, spelling, and notetaking skills. (RS)

Two cooperative learning techniques are presented for achieving carryover of speech and language skills: a speech-language peer homework monitoring system; and a contractual system among the student, the clinician, and the student's class in which group contingencies foster cooperative interactions. (JDD)

Describes an activity in which high school students did demonstrations for special education and elementary school students. Explains the difficulties that students have in their presentations and the benefits they receive. Lists elements of both the physical science demonstration set and the biology demonstration set. (YDS)

This volume, the last of a series of eight curriculum guides compiled by the Colorado Workplace Learning Initiative: 1991-92, contains 11 workplace literacy courses on enhanced basic skills including listening skills, communications, speech, self-esteem, and individual workplace skills. Introductory materials include a table of contents and a list…

Numerous studies indicate that communication apprehension can and does have considerable negative consequences for college students so affected. There are strategies that can be undertaken in the classroom that may help alleviate communication apprehension for some students. Classroom instructors must first recognize how students are processing…

The logic and the benefits of requiring college students in basic speech communication classes to tape-record oral journals are set forth along with a detailed description of the assignment. Instructions to the students explain the mechanics of the assignment as follows: (1) obtain and properly label a quality cassette tape; (2) make seven…

Intended for language arts teachers at the junior and senior high school level, this curriculum guide provides a framework for literature, language, and composition instruction for grades 7 through 12. Course curricula are presented on four different levels for each grade, and include objectives and prerequisites for literature study, language…

At Florida Junior College at Jacksonville, public speaking instructors employ Jerome S. Bruner's four factors of learning--predisposition to learn, structure of knowledge, sequence, and reinforcement--to plan an effective learning program for students with diverse academic backgrounds and goals. Specifically, six learning units, tailored to both…

The 53 teaching strategies accompanying the 10 performance objectives in this guide for grades kindergarten through 12 focus on specific kinds of oral language. Each of the objectives is designed so that after the completion of the program students will be able to (1) use appropriate levels of language for given situations; (2) present both…

The activities included in this book are based on current theory on effective oral communication and are intended to increase students' repertoire and use of effective oral communication behaviors. Specifically, the book's activities are designed to (1) appeal to students of all ability levels; (2) provide for student interaction and involvement;…

Providing for individual differences in ability, interest, and cultural values among students, this guide contains resources, goals, objectives, sample lesson plans, and activities for teaching speech and drama to elementary school students. The first section of the guide offers advice on the organization of a speech arts curriculum, approaches to…

Describes an integrated language arts unit built around Brian Doyle's "You Can Pick Me Up at Peggy's Cove" that provides a supportive language learning environment for children in the upper elementary grades. (FL)

The author states that the lecture is a valuable and necessary teaching method when used to help students synthesize information and understand relationships between concepts and to prepare them for discussion and practice. She offers ten suggestions for improving the effectiveness of the lecture. (MF)

Concerns research in the use of cloze tests to measure a particular language skill when a standardized paper-and-pencil test is not an obviously appropriate validating instrument. The conversational cloze test proved to be superior to a written or prose cloze test in measuring the students' oral ability. Statistical tables are given. (Author/PJM)