The objectives and the scope and sequence for the elementary school mathematics program of the Denver Public Schools (Colorado) are presented. The guide begins with a statement of the philosophy and general objectives of the K-12 mathematics program and a discussion of the methods of achieving those objectives. Several important ideas and concepts…

Three dictionaries are compared for their usefulness to teachers of English as a foreign language, teachers in training, students, and other users of English as a foreign language. The issue of monolingual versus bilingual dictionary format is discussed, and a previous analysis of the two bilingual dictionaries is summarized. Pronunciation…

The applicability of phonics generalizations, particularly the rule "When two vowels go walking the first one does the talking and the second one is silent," is examined in this paper. The first section reports on a study of the applicability of the two vowel rule to words in first- and second-grade basal readers and on a core vocabulary list; the…

Intended to help teacher aides to achieve the goals of developing children's interest in reading, building their sight vocabularies, and helping them with specific reading needs as they arise, this guide contains a glossary of terms used in reading, lists of high frequency words and nouns, the Dolch word list, a supplement to the Dolch list,…

This systematic lexical comparison of 1,050 words from five Nigerian Igbo dialects is based on the list used for the West African Language Survey in 1960. The comparative phonologies are not to be regarded as definitive but as hypotheses derived from the present material. In Igbo, as in other Kwa languages, there are in general no consonant…

This bibliography of articles, books, and ERIC documents on the teaching of reading in foreign language classes is intended for university content reading specialists, reading coordinators and consultants, secondary and university foreign language teachers, and methodologists in foreign language education. More than 95 sources are listed in the…

This bibliography lists 136 items which may be useful to anyone teaching or taking Welsh as a second language. Each entry includes the usual bibliographic information, some include annotations, and some are accompanied by quotations from reviews. About half the titles are in English, and the other half in Welsh. The annotations and quotations are…

This is a selected, annotated bibliography of dictionaries useful to Indochinese refugees. The purpose of this guide is to provide the American teacher or sponsor with information on the use, limitations and availability of monolingual and bilingual dictionaries which can be used by refugees. The bibliography is preceded by notes on problems with…

The primary purpose of this study was to provide empirical evidence for the assumption that if the essential subskills of word attack are mastered, then functional word attack ability will result. To obtain such evidence, the study was designed to test the functional word attack ability of 140 elementary school students who had been taught the…

The lexicon of present-day English is changing rapidly and regularly, and a description and explanation of this change is necessary for any comprehensive diachronic theory. An examination of a corpus of 500 new words collected during 1975 provides the basis for a typology of lexical change that both supports and suggests modifications for the…

This document presents a classification of Western Queensland aboriginal languages based on a lexicostatistic methodology. Over 50 languages are considered and compared according to a cognate test list of 250 words. The resultant subgroups and groups are described and classified. An appendix includes the word list used for comparison and the terms…

In this course the student expands his aural-oral skills by talking about school, food, and clothes, and at the same time he develops his reading and writing skills. The student manipulates the stem alternation e-i (pedir), the irregular verb (decir), the present progressive, negation (using nada, nadie, ninguno, nunca, tampoco, ni), possessive…

This final volume in a series of texts developed for an introductory course in Portuguese reviews essential grammatical features and provides reading materials in the form of narratives on the cultural and economic aspects of Brazil. Each lesson includes a review of a grammatical feature, use of a selected word, exercises, narratives, and…

This language guide, written for United States Armed Forces personnel, serves as an introduction to the Norwegian language and presents important words and phrases for use in normal conversation. Linguistic expressions are classified under the following categories: (1) greetings and general phrases, (2) location, (3) directions, (4) numbers, (5)…

This language guide, written for United States Armed Forces personnel, serves as an introduction to the Korean language and presents important words and phrases for use in normal conversation. Linguistic expressions are classified under the following categories: (1) greetings and general phrases, (2) location, (3) directions, (4) numbers, (5)…