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New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of General Education Curriculum Development. – 1977
This inventory is designed to enable high school equivalency instructors to profile a student's competencies in the English skills that need to be mastered requisite to passing the General Educational Development (GED) writing skills test. The inventory contains 101 items, tailored specifically item-by-item to 35 skills tested. The skills involve…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Grammar, High School Equivalency Programs
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Knight, Michael – Zielsprache Englisch, 1978
Finds that dictation exercises are insufficiently used in foreign language teaching. They serve many purposes, e.g., in tests, as introduction to texts, and in recollection exercises. They may have various forms, such as dictation with blanks to fill in, transcription of song texts, etc. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Class Activities, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Skills
Baker, Michael; And Others – 1995
The 33 activities in this book reinforce the rules of written English by providing students with practice in editing a variety of formats. The activities help students develop a basic understanding of the rules of grammar and mechanics (generally taught in grades 6-7) in context and exercise their critical thinking abilities by identifying content…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Editing, Grade 6, Grade 7
Cronnell, Bruce – 1982
One goal of computer-based instruction in writing is to help students to edit their compositions, particularly those compositions written on a word processor. This can be accomplished by a complete editing program that would contain the full set of mechanics rules--capitalization, punctuation, spelling, usage--appropriate for the grade level of…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Editing
Stotsky, Sandra L. – 1977
Dictation in the language arts class most often involves lists of isolated spelling words. However, in France and in other European countries, the dictation of literary passages is a common activity in the language arts class and appears to be of great interest and benefit to students. Among the values of such dictation are the following: students…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Language Arts
BROWN, MARSHALL L.; AND OTHERS – 1967
TWO TRANSFORMATIONAL-GENERATIVE APPROACHES TO TEACHING SYNTAX IN JUNIOR AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS ARE PRESENTED. ONE IS FOR USE WITH AVERAGE AND TALENTED STUDENTS IN GRADES 7-9, AND THE OTHER IS FOR SLOW-LEARNING STUDENTS IN GRADES 7-11. A DISCUSSION OF THE FIRST APPROACH IS DIVIDED BY GRADE LEVEL AND INCLUDES AN EXAMINATION OF BASIC SENTENCE…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), English Instruction, Grammar, Induction
Fellman, Jack – Language Planning Newsletter, 1976
This article discusses language planning in Israel, and specifically the activities of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. Its development from the original Hebrew Language Council is traced, as well as its membership which is made up of leading Hebrew scholars and writers. The aims of the Academy were basically three: (1) to assemble and carry…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar, Hebrew, Institutions
Baker, M.; Block, C.; Borla, L.; Dietrich, G.; Hockett, M.; Holly, Thad – 1997
Providing students in grades 6-8 with practice and reinforcement in editing for capitalization, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, usage, and content, this computer software program contains over 30 written accounts that have been sequenced from easier to more difficult. The program has 3 levels of play: beginning, intermediate, and advanced. At each…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Editing, Grade 6, Grammar
Marrou, Judith R. – Southwestern Journal of Social Education, 1982
Ideas for incorporating five essential writing skills, identified by the Texas Assessment of Basic Skills, into elementary social studies courses are presented. These include spelling, organizing ideas in writing, a knowledge of standard punctuation and capitalization, ability to control sentence structure, and use of legible handwriting for…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Elementary Education, Handwriting Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Sloan, Gary – College Composition and Communication, 1979
An examination of 2,000 freshman themes, half written from 1950 to 1957 and half from 1973 to 1976, revealed that recent themes had many more deviations from standard usage, mechanics, and punctuation. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Problems, Educational Research, Error Analysis (Language)
Pringle, Ian; Freedman, Aviva – 1985
The third of three studies involving a comparative analysis of transactional and narrative writing of selected samples of students in two Ontario districts, this study addressed questions arising from the earlier studies and examined the writing skills of students in grades 5, 8, and 12. Writing samples were examined for conformity to the norms of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Narration
Oates, Rita Haugh – Quill and Scroll, 1987
Reviews several software packages that analyze text readability, check for spelling and style problems, offer desktop publishing capabilities, teach interviewing skills, and teach grammar using a computer game. (SRT)
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), Computer Software, Computer Software Reviews, Computer Uses in Education
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Quible, Zane K. – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 2004
This article used a writing sample that contained 27 sentence-level errors of the type found by corporate America to be annoying and bothersome. Five categories of errors were included in the sample: grammar, punctuation, spelling, writing style, and business communication concepts. Students in a written business communication course were asked…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Writing (Composition), Error Patterns, Sentences
Fowler, Elaine D. – 1978
An interest in conditions of practice and feedback led to a study which examined the effect on writing by elementary school students of (1) two types of practice, both similar to "free focused writing"; (2) practice at a frequency greater than once a week; and (3) a procedure by which students measured their own performance and provided themselves…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Feedback, Free Writing
Clackamas Community Coll., Oregon City, OR. – 1992
This curriculum guide, almost entirely in Spanish, outlines adult basic education course content to be taught in a Spanish-language high school equivalency program. The course is designed to help students prepare for the General Educational Development (G.E.D.) exam in written expression. The guide begins with a Spanish skills placement test.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Grammar, High School Equivalency Programs, Instructional Materials
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