One of the ways to handle the increasing demands on readers' skills is to make writing more readable. The problem has two different aspects: predicting how readable writing will be to a reader, and producing writing that is readable to that reader. Prediction is relatively simple, and can be done statistically with readability formulas. Production…

This paper describes a plan to help high school freshmen with their spelling, vocabulary, and sentence structure. The first part of the plan used the students' familiar spelling words as roots. Prefixes and suffixes were then added to these words to increase vocabulary. Finally, the words were placed into sentences and the sentences were examined…

Intended to improve the quality of public documents by making them clearer to the people who use them, this book contains document design principles concerned with writing documents that are visually distinct, attractive, and easily understood. Following an introduction, the major portion of the book presents the 25 principles, each of which…

Discusses a method that enables students of English to classify and organize their lexical capital by using triangles to diagram sentences. How to inscribe a sentence in a triangle is explained and illustrated. (CFM)

This booklet is intended to enable the beginner in the field of transformational grammar to read and gain information about much of the contemporary scholarly literature on grammar (of foreign languages as well as of English). Sections in the book discuss phrase structure grammar; transformational rules--movement rules, insertion rules,…

The primary purpose of this booklet is to provide useful class and small group discussion tools for allowing students to inductively discover certain fundamental characteristics of language structure and to directly relate the study of sentence structure to the development of writing skills. A series of experiments is provided to serve as models…

This guide is designed to sensitize both the novice and experienced teacher to the problems Vietnamese students are likely to have in learning the grammatical structures of English. The guidelines and suggestions presented here relate principally to the structures of English which differ markedly from parallel structures of Vietnamese, and which…

Textual puzzles may be used in freshman composition or introduction to writing courses to emphasize word order and subject-predicate agreement. These sentence puzzles demonstrate that the English language depends primarily upon word order to convey meaning, and assist students to avoid blending statement and question word order in their sentences…

This book is designed to help individuals prepare for the Writing Skills Test, which is the first of five tests that make up the General Educational Development (GED) Test battery. The introduction offers a detailed description of the content, format, and scoring of the GED test, focusing on the Writing Skills Test, and a descriptive outline of…

This workshop guide is designed to help civil service students both learn to use good grammar and develop their technical writing skills. Discussed are such topics as nouns, gender, number, person and case, appositives, pronouns, mood, verbs, (transitive and intransitive), adjectives and adverbs, comparisons, articles, conjunctions, infinitives,…

The language sequencing packet is designed to be used as the basis for a brief inservice workshop to provide teachers with ideas, suggestions, and materials for remediating a student's inability to sequence words into sentences. Included are a sample prescription form; information on Dial-A-Sentence, an instructional material designed to help…

This publication presents four suggested language arts curriculum units designed to be used with high school students in first- or second-year Spanish classes who are native speakers of the language. The first unit, which deals with the Spanish alphabet, is meant to be used as an introduction to the Spanish language. The second and third units,…

This paper is divided into the following five sections, each of which considers an aspect of teaching grammar: the importance of teaching English grammar, teaching the patterns of words and sentences, the functions of words, making sentences, and a curriculum proposal for teaching standard English in the elementary grades through high school. (LL)

This learning module is designed to provide the prospective teacher of English as second language with a contrastive overview of the syntactic structures of Spanish and English and to enable him to: (a) state the English language patterns that are difficult for a Puerto Rican Spanish-speaker, (b) explain the specific causes for indications of…

Intended to facilitate the implementation of the activities suggested in the corresponding teacher's guide, this revised supplement and ditto packet contains visual aids and originals from which ditto masters may be made for duplicating multiple copies. The teacher's guide gives the timetable for when these materials are to be used. The…