IN ORDER TO ENHANCE THE SPEAKING ABILITY OF THE STUDENT, TO HELP HIM DEVELOP READING AND WRITING SKILLS, AND TO AID HIM IN ACQUIRING BETTER TECHNIQUES IN SPANISH, SUGGESTIONS ARE MADE TO THE TEACHER REGARDING THE USE OF THIS VOLUME. SUCH SUGGESTIONS INCLUDE CHORAL AND DOUBLE REPETITION, A READING OF MATERIAL PREVIOUSLY MEMORIZED, AND A VARIED…

This manual accompanies a programmatic text in beginning Spanish which was developed for use in the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State and is available as FL 000 961. It consists of all of the voicing script that does not appear in the student text. (AF)

With the growing shortage of time and money for writing new textbooks, particularly in the seldom-taught languages, there is a premium on making effective use of what already exists. A teacher has a choice, not only of accepting or rejecting materials, but adapting or rewriting them. (The fourth possibility is often viewed both as unjustifiably…

This newsletter is designed to promote the needs and aims of bilingual-bicultural education. This issue contains articles on: (1) Multi-ethnic Cooperation in Bilingual Education, (2) A Primary-Level Poetry Volume, (3) "Mi Escuela" for Your School, (4) An "Enciclopedia" That Is Also a "Tesoro," (5) Sample Lesson for "Abecedario Disney", (6) Bird of…

This series of exercises provides review of the Spanish subjunctive mood. (CHK)

This feature consists of exercises in vocabulary, grammar, and language use for the student of Spanish as a second language. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

Appended is text of the song Duerme, negrito'' (Sleep, Little Black Boy) by Atahualpa Yupanqui, as recorded by Mercedes Sosa on the album El grito de la tierra'' (The Cry of the Land), Philips 6347005. (RS)

An annotated listing of nutrition education materials and background information for or about Spanish-speaking ethnic groups. Includes printed materials, games, and audiovisual materials on foods, nutrition, consumer problems, and health. (BL)

Examines some of the methods and materials that were used to teach reading by some of the first Spanish colonists in sixteenth-century colonial Mexico, and includes a discussion of picture writing, alphabetic script, and reading instruction methods and materials. (28 references) (CB)

The Quincentennial produced many resources in several media that can be incorporated into foreign language pedagogy at all levels. This article identifies sources in the following categories: movies and videos; coffee table books; source books and textbooks; magazines, journals and articles; and games. (Author/LB)

This study is an examination of the use of captioned video with beginning students of Spanish. Two groups of students watched a Spanish-language video with or without Spanish captioning and the groups' comprehension scores were compared. Students in the captioning group described how they used the pictures, sound, and captioning to understand the…

Designed to assist bilingual teachers in providing a coordinated program of studies for students in the Connecticut Migratory Children's Program and others whose native language is Spanish, this bilingual-bicultural mathematics curriculum guide for second grade is one of a series for pre-school through fifth grade. The overall focus is on Puerto…

Kits 37-40 of the bilingual (Spanish-English) language arts strand present reading, language analysis, and creative expression activities similar to those found in earlier kits of this spiral curriculum. Basic theme of unit 10 for grade three is communities around the world. Focus, objective, and materials are listed for each activity; assessment…

Designed to help the teacher in presenting the material of unit nine's science-math strand for third graders, this supplement and ditto packet contains both group visual aids and seatwork activities for individual students. Notations in the teacher's guide indicate when the supplementary materials should be used. Concepts explored in the four kits…