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George, D'Ann Pletcher – 1995
It is a commonly held assumption that Harvard-trained rhetoricians during the late 19th and early 20th centuries were concerned mainly with superficial mechanical correction, and, further, that they dissociated student writing from any meaningful context and contributed to the division between composition and literature. Howard James Savage was…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change
Andover Public Schools, MA. – 1986
This compilation presents materials related to Andover's Integrated Reading System (AIRS), which provides quality education for first through eighth grade promoting consistency of curricula throughout the system, competence in teaching skills for mastery, student enjoyment of literature, and significant growth in reading scores. The compilation…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Language Usage, Middle Schools
Applebee, Arthur N.; And Others – 1987
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) administered a writing task to nationally representative samples of 9-, 13-, and 17-year-old students in order to assess their abilities to use the conventions of written English. Approximately 2,000 students at each age level completed this task as part of NAEP's 1984 writing assessment.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Educational Assessment, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Smith, Nancy J.; And Others – 1993
The Grammar, Spelling, and Punctuation (GSP) test is administered to students in the College of Communication at the University of Texas, Austin, as a means of determining eligibility to register for certain courses in journalism, broadcasting, and advertising. The test was administered in a paper-and-pencil version to 16 students and in a…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, College Students, Computer Assisted Testing, Eligibility
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. – 1984
This manual lists skills in the area of writing (including composition, mechanics, and structure/usage) considered essential for pupils to progress to the next higher level of achievement. The skills, described in terms of behavioral objectives, are listed according to grade, and grades kindergarten through 12 are covered. Students at the lower…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Course Objectives, Educational Objectives
Stephenson, Robert S.; Giacoboni, Kathryn N. – 1988
This study compares the results of an indirect measure of writing ability, the Florida State Student Assessment Test, Part I (SSAT-I), and the Production Writing Assessment (PWA). Both instruments were administered to 10th graders in Dade County (Florida) during the spring of 1987. The SSAT-I is an untimed test containing a section indirectly…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Essay Tests, Grade 10, Grammar
Griffin, Debra F. – 1979
After a review of selected literature on individualized instruction and writing courses, learning objectives and activities are presented for a course in English composition, incorporating four sequential units which students complete at their own rate and for which only pass, fail, or incomplete grades are assigned. The first of these units…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives
Odum, Helen P. – 1980
Elementary school teachers acknowledge the need for better writing instruction, but seldom have time for it within their already crowded curricula. Writing instruction suffers from placing skills development before writing activities, from emphasis on reading, and because many teachers are not well prepared to teach writing. A low priority is…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, English Curriculum, Grammar
Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA. – 1976
This short description of the sound and spelling systems of the Vietnamese language is intended for the sponsor, teacher or friend (of Vietnamese refugees) who may have difficulty in pronouncing Vietnamese names, reading handwriting, or using a Vietnamese-English dictionary or phrasebook. Focusing primarily on the Southern dialect of Vietnamese,…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Consonants, Indochinese, Language Patterns
Ferry, Richard Eugene – 1968
This investigation sought to determine if a planned program in personal writing might be effective in teaching the language arts tasks of intermediate grade children. Examined were the effects of the personal writing treatment upon word meaning, paragraph meaning, spelling, language, writing, and attitudes toward reading. One experimental and one…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, English Instruction, Experimental Programs, Grade 4
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Blumner, Ellen – 1994
This set of learning modules was developed during a project to deliver workplace literacy instruction to individuals employed in the more than 50 businesses related to the activities of the Port of Baltimore. It is intended to accomplish the following objectives: familiarize students with selected basic grammatical points, introduce basic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Capitalization (Alphabetic), Functional Literacy
Beaudin, Bart P.; And Others – 1993
This teacher's guide is intended for use in presenting a course to help Kodak Corporation employees develop the basic reading skills required in their workplace. The following topics are covered in the modules: prewriting thinking skills; information identification and organization strategies; awareness of the receiver's characteristics and needs;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Audience Awareness, Behavioral Objectives, Capitalization (Alphabetic)
Carlson, Diana M.; Roellich, Carol – 1983
With use of a carefully planned program of peer evaluation, the teacher can develop students' skills in analysis, evaluation, proofreading, and punctuation. Giving each student a copy of the "Indicator for Rating Performance, Grades 6-12," the teacher explains that the 11 essential parts of any written work are each described and given a specific…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Grading, Grammar
Johnson, Diane E. – 1980
Designed for use with 38 full-color slides and a cassette tape presentation, this instructional package consists of an instructor's guide and a student activity packet. The instructor's guide includes general instructions for presenting the instructional unit as well as specific instructions for introducing, implementing, and evaluating student…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Business Correspondence, Capitalization (Alphabetic), Editing
Wilde, Sandra – 1986
Assuming that learning to spell and punctuate involves making and testing hypotheses about how the orthographic style of English works, a study explored six children's classroom spelling during their third and fourth grade years. The subjects were American children of the Tonono O'odham (Papago) tribe of southwestern Arizona who were part of a…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
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