Concludes that only a few of the 43 features of black English dialect influence the way in which 223 black fourth, fifth, and sixth graders spell words. (DD)

This writer takes the position that black English does exist and that teachers of black children should know the grammar of this language so that they can better deal with teaching the children who speak it. (DM)

This study aimed to collect further evidence of written Black English markers by listing in categories those appearing in diagnostic compositions of black freshmen in a predominantly white community college, calculating their frequencies, and relating their appearance to background information about the writers. Compositions of the 72 subjects…

An overview of Black dialects, with suggestions for teaching students who speak in Black dialects. (RL)

Compares linguistic and non-linguistic components of ways of speaking, being, performing, and reasoning within an urban African American secondary classroom and a midwestern African American hair salon, identifying culturally shared interactional norms that inform knowledge building across sites and analyzing how the discourse norms and structures…

Published originally in "The Bulletin of the Minnesota Council for the Social Studies, Fall 1968.

Describing an inservice program designed to familiarize White teachers with Black student dialect, this article presents an inservice outline that includes the following: program purpose; objectives; program sequence (information phase, fact finding phase, data correlation and recording phase, and evaluation phase). (JC)

Teachers can encourage literacy best by understanding and respecting black dialect, and by helping youngsters translate their many different experiences into standard English. (Author)

Outlines a procedure for introducing Negro college pre-freshmen to such new cultural experiences as the opera. (JM)