You and the school share responsibility for your child's language and literacy learning. Collaborate with your school to make decisions about your child's literacy education right from the start. Your child benefits when you and the school work together to support her literacy development. Working together promotes faster development and catches…

Taking part in literacy experiences at home can develop your child's reading ability, comprehension, and language skills. Activities that you can engage in at home include: joint reading, drawing, singing, storytelling, reciting, game playing, and rhyming. You can tailor activities to your child's age and ability level, and can incorporate…

Over the course of the past decade, the state of Louisiana has developed several documents to articulate expectations for children's learning and development and provide guidance for early childhood educators. The experiences and skills that children develop during the early years are critically important to their success later in school. What…

This exciting guide provides professionals with a balanced emergent literacy program that develops language, print awareness, and phonological awareness skills. Activities in these three domains are integrated into 10 lessons. Each "PreRead" session begins with a written and oral presentation of the sequence of activities for that day using a…

This guide was developed to help teachers instruct children in the language arts and develop children's language skills. Section 1 presents such topics as motor skills, listening skills, visual skills, vocabulary development, comprehension, oral expression, and written expression. Each topic is divided into three parts: skill sequence, teaching…

This bulletin describes the reading program in the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools and provides guidelines to help teachers assess the individual strengths and needs of their students. Ways in which the teacher may organize the classroom and ways in which children may be grouped in order to facilitate their learning are suggested. The…

Designed to provide teachers with a listing of sequentially ordered objectives in specific language arts areas, this level one teaching guide was developed in Plano, Texas, as part of an elementary series keyed to the reading, language, spelling, and handwriting books used in that district. The guide is organized according to vocabulary, word…

Designed to provide teachers with a listing of sequentially ordered objectives in specific language arts areas, this level two teaching guide was developed in Plano, Texas, as part of an elementary series keyed to the reading, language, spelling, and handwriting books used in that district. The guide is organized according to vocabulary, word…

This volume describes and discusses the areas in which children must develop in order to learn to read, emphasizing the recognition of the different rates of development for various children. Contained in this material are suggestions regarding the role of the classroom teacher in assessing the needs of the young child and in planning and…

An adult basic education curriculum is presented, designed to raise the competencies of adults in the basic areas of oral and written communications, arithmetic, social sciences, occupational planning (including development of occupational concepts and attitudes) and development of self. Basic area skills and activities are presented in three…

Specific criteria for the rating of each questionnaire item are stated in detail. The teacher is asked, after reading the questions carefully, to assign each grade 3 and up student a rating for every question. This rating should be based on a personal knowledge of the student. The booklet is divided into three sections with section 1 focusing on…

This publication describes numerous films and shows how they can be used to teach verbal and visual skills. Separate sections examine the use of films in teaching reading and composition skills, literature appreciation, and visual literacy. An alphabetical index of films cited gives information for each film regarding year of release, length,…

This curriculum guide suggests ways for teachers to provide students with learning experiences which develop communication skills and facilitate the learning of language concepts. The guide, whose design is process oriented and student centered, can be used as a basis for developing an individual language arts program for every student. Eight…

This curriculum guide for the language arts program is divided into four major sections. Section 1, Decoding, discusses such topics as visual discrimination, identifying colors, sight words, likenesses and differences, accent, compounds, contractions, possessives, abbreviations, syllables, hyphenated words, choral reading, correct phrasing,…

Written primarily for special needs students in the exploratory phase of a vocational program in food services, this activity book employs basic content material of the food service trade to serve as a vehicle for developing reading and language skills. Each lesson follows a similar format. The lesson is introduced by an illustration and a list of…