The results of a project which investigated the speech of black respondents enrolled in the intermediate grades are described. From the data, materials and audio tapes were developed that could be used in helping preservice and inservice teachers identify morphological and syntactic features of black dialect. The concepts used in developing the materials were that (1) enough people speak black dialect to give credence to the thesis that they comprise a separate and distinct speech community; (2) there is systematic variety in the kind of English which these persons speak; and (3) black dialect speakers frequently alternate between general academic English practices and those of the variant dialect. Thirteen speech features were studied, including the omission of "s" to indicate the third person singular, the formation of the past and perfect tense of verbs, zero copula, auxiliary "be," negative "be," formation of the plurals of nouns, formation of the possessive case of nouns, the pronominal appositive, variant forms of pronouns, the existential "it," multiple negation, overinflection, and inverted word order in indirect questions. (HOD)