Five booklets are included in this kit of materials for secondary English teachers concerning the use of newspapers in the classroom. "Your Newspaper: An Exciting World at your Fingertips" describes the contents and uses of newspapers in school work. "Basic Understanding of the Literary Epic Using the Newspaper as a Supplementary Aid" emphasizes…

GRADES OR AGES: Grade 3. SUBJECT MATTER: Arithmetic, social studies, language arts, spelling, writing, literature, reading, science and health, art, and physical education. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide gives suggested weekly and daily time allotments. One chapter is devoted to each subject, with additional chapters on language…

This book is the second edition of a study discussing research in creative teaching in language arts at the elementary school level. It is intended both for students in teacher education and for inservice teachers. A fundamental premise of the book is that to develop creativity in children the teacher should operate from a basic set of principles…

This teaching guide, which is the framework for the Conrad Area District (Delaware) Language Arts Program, includes for kindergarten, first, and second grades the areas of listening, speaking, reading, spelling, and writing. It has priority over the commercial guides due to its highly sequential development, its emphasis on individualization of…

This curriculum guide for a high school junior- and senior-level English program identifies twenty-two characteristics of a successful graduate. These characteristics are regarded as goals to be met through the completion of units on four communicative processes: (1) reading, (2) writing, (3) speaking and listening, and (4) thinking and…

This curriculum guide in language arts for kindergarten through twelfth grade emphasizes a flexible student-centered curriculum concentrating on developing a student's ability to find out information for himself in an atmosphere of responsible freedom. To facilitate this approach to learning, the guide is not organized into traditional subject…

In the Quinmester course "Tie it All Together," students read a variety of short expository pieces, discovering inductively the structure of the sentences and paragraphs in the works, and then proceeding to develop their own. The subject matter in regard to sentences includes: word meanings; sentence elements; sentence structure.…

The Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) is a mandated statewide assessment program that targets four core content areas. English language arts, including reading and writing, and mathematics are given to students in grades 3, 5, 8, and 10; science and social studies are given to students in grades 4, 6, 8, and 11. The DSTP reading and…

This study was conducted during the spring of 1999 school semester to examine the implementation of the University-Middle School E-mail Buddy Project. This project gave eighth grade and college students the opportunity to pair up electronically via e-mail and exchange discourse that focused on such issues as language arts activities and…

This project aims to provide basic steps for students to restore and create wildlife habitats on school grounds. Four chapters are included in this guide, and each chapter is divided into teacher and student sections. Chapter 1 provides necessary information for starting a habitat project. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 discuss the details for the Forest…

This paper synthesizes research on the value of writing in learning science at all grade levels. Breakthroughs and barriers to the effective use of writing to learn science are discussed. Differences between elementary and secondary teachers are considered with regard to background in language arts, understanding of the writing process, and the…

Describes successful classroom strategies for improving the reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills of a fourth grader with poor communication skills development. Practices include sustained silent reading, exposure to "real" literature, reading aloud, purposeful listening, and writing with a purpose. Guidelines for teachers are…

Presents classroom-tested teaching tips from 100 years of issues of "Instructor." Suggestions are made in the areas of language arts, social studies, science, math, writing, classroom management, bulletin boards and displays, art, general curriculum activities, and critical thinking skills. (SM)

In this article, the author builds on McHenry and Heaths study of the "literate" and the "literary" and McHenry's research on "forgotten readers" by examining the often undocumented literacy traditions and practices of men and women of African descent. First, the author traces the legacy of blended traditions of both written and spoken words in…

The traditional approach to education has placed more importance on the role of the teacher in the teacher-student relationship. Such an approach has produced a nation of passive learners who can regurgitate facts but have little ability to reason, solve problems, or think critically or creatively. A junior high school language arts teacher who…