This annotated bibliography is reformatted and customized by the Center for Positive Practices. Some of the authors featured on this page include G. Richard Tucker, Gladys G. Rodriguez, Brooklyn New York City Board of Education, Catherine Snow, David Nunan, Kathleen M. Bailey, Patsy M. Lightbown, Brian K. Lynch, Gisele A. Waters, and Juan D. Solis.
(1977). Caribou: mon pays blanc. Serie: Villes Franco-Americaines de la Nouvelle – Angleterre (Caribou, My Snowy Country. Collection: French-American Cities of New England, Vol. 2). This text is the second in a series of materials dealing with cities in New England having a distinct Franco-American presence. The text and supporting audio-visual materials present an overview of the city of Caribou, Maine, as seen through the eyes of its people. Its primary objective is to provide up-to-date, culturally valid Franco-American social studies material that is easily read by elementary grade students. Target students for this material are those presently at a minimum of third grade French reading ability (bilingual), or those presently in seventh-eighth grade. The text is illustrated with black and white photographs. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background, Cultural Education
(1975). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Social Science Strand, Unit 5, Grade 2, Supplement & Ditto Packet. Designed for use with the teacher's guide to the social science strand of unit five, the supplement and ditto packet provides materials for class activities and seatwork for individual students. Kit 17 focuses on what the elements are. Ditto materials for this kit help the students identify similarities and differences in home and school activities, recognize the need for interdependence and cooperation, and identify feelings. Kit 18 revolves around how wants and needs are satisfied. Visuals are used to examine a school in a country setting, illustrate schools in foreign countries, and examine school traditions. Kit 19 deals with how changes occur and ditto masters help students recognize the power structure in the school and identify feelings of characters in a story. Kit 20 concentrates on what happens as a result of change. Materials are provided for work with the cardinal points of north, south, east and west. Visuals from stories help in identifying conflict situations. Language on materials for classroom use is in Spanish. Each kit is designed for a period of instruction of two to three weeks. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Conflict, Educational Environment, Educational Media
(1974). Mis Tios y Dido (My Aunt and Uncle and Dido). Chula Vista Readers, Book Two. This is book two in a series of beginning readers in Spanish for preschool and grade one. The program is designed to prepare children to read in Spanish by teaching the sound-symbol relationship in sequential order with simple reading selections. This book introduces "d" and "t" and reinforces the sound-symbol relationships learned in book one. [More] Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Consonants, Early Reading, Instructional Materials
(1973). Tests in Spanish and Other Languages and Nonverbal Tests for Children in Bilingual Programs: An Annotated B.E.A.R.U. Bibliography. This bibliography contains an annotated listing of 21 verbal and nonverbal tests for children in bilingual programs. Included are tests of intelligence, general ability, and language proficiency. The languages covered are Spanish, English, French, and German. There is a brief description of each test, including information concerning its grade range and the time required for administration. Included are further sources of information on tests for bilingual programs. Attached is a prospectus announcing an analytical bibliography of language tests by Jean-Guy Savard and an article on the Educational Testing Service of San Juan, Puerto Rico. [More] Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, English, French
(1974). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Social Science Strand, Unit 3, Grade One, Supplement & Ditto Packet. The revised supplementary teaching materials and the ditto packet are to be used with the third unit of the bilingual social science program developed for grade one. Designed to help the teacher carry out learning activities, the instructional aids center around the theme of the child and the school, broadening concepts of the classroom and family taught in the previous two units. A timetable for when these materials are to be used is given in the teacher's guide corresponding to this unit, which contains kits 9 through 12. The illustrations, intended to help stimulate oral language and conceptual development, include charts and pictures for use in stories, games, group planning, group discussions, and dramatizations. The ditto packet contains visuals for group use and individual student worksheets. The individual student worksheets are to be presented under supervision rather than as independent tasks. Where writing appears on the materials, it is in Spanish only. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Environment, Educational Media, Grade 1
(1977). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Fine Arts Strand, Unit 2, Grade One, Supplement & Ditto Packet. Developed by the Spanish Curricula Development Center, this ditto packet and supplement to the second unit of the fine arts curriculum written in Spanish for grade one contains visual aids designed to help the teacher carry out activities included in the teacher's guide corresponding to this unit. Kits five through eight, each intended to cover two to three weeks of instruction, focus on the basic theme of the family, as do these supplementary instructional aids. With music as the core of the fine arts program, these materials include illustrations for songs, and of body movements, instruments, the musical scale, animals and the sounds they make, and the concept of ascending and descending movement of pitch levels. The illustrations are provided to help stimulate oral language and conceptual development. In addition to the teacher's guide and supplementary materials, this unit contains a recorded version of the vocal and instrumental music on cassettes (available separately from the Dissemination Center). Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Media, Enrichment Activities, Fine Arts
(1977). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Language Arts, Unit 10, Grade 3, Supplement & Ditto Packet. Support materials for unit 10 of the bilingual language arts strand developed for grade three include two small pupil books and visuals and ditto masters for use with instructional and assessment activities described in the unit's teacher's guide. The instructional aids for kits 37-40 are designed to help the teacher present reading, language analysis, and creative expression activities. There are ditto masters for making multiple copies of visuals and individual seatwork sheets for teaching and assessment activities. The two pupil books, written in Spanish and having color illustrations, contain an adventure story, an adaptation of Martin Fierro, a biography of Benito Juarez, an adaptation of a poem by Jose Marti, and a Puerto Rican folklore story. Supplementary materials include illustrations for stories; visuals to use with activities about expressing feelings, conservation of the ecological system, and writing advertisements; and materials to assess student reading comprehension and understanding of use of hyphens, contractions, verb tenses (past, present, future), abbreviations, syllables, and accents. Classroom materials are in Spanish. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Childrens Literature, Educational Media, Grade 3
(2001). Identifying Research Priorities: Themes and Directions for the TESOL International Research Foundation, TESOL Quarterly. Highlights research priorities for the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) field, including the following: age of beginning instruction, learning to read in a second language, dual-language education for English language learners, language assessment and program evaluation, English as a global language, learning English for academic and occupational purposes, and teacher preparation and development. Descriptors: Age, Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes
(1974). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Social Science Strand, Unit 1, Grade One, Supplement & Ditto Packet. Ditto masters and visual aids to be used with the bilingual, multiethnic social science instructional unit developed for grade one are found in this ditto packet and supplement for teachers. Materials are to be used with the four kits in this social science unit, which is built around the theme of helping first graders adjust to the classroom environment. The teacher's guide, also a component of the unit, includes a timetable for when these materials are to be used. The supplementary illustrations are designed to help stimulate oral language and conceptual development. Some are to be cut out for manipulations with small groups and individuals; others are full size to be left intact. The pictures for illustration of concepts and discussion, patterns, materials for games, and resources for various classroom activities are designed to help the teacher carry out the instructional and assessment activites found in the teacher's guide. The ditto masters are for individual worksheets, which are usually to be presented under supervision rather than as independent tasks. Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Bilingual Education, Educational Media, Grade 1
(1973). Learning Achievement Packages in Sciences-Biology: Cell Theory, Mitosis, Magnification, Wounds. This publication presents four science curriculum units designed to meet the learning problems of students with special language handicaps. The materials are written in both English and Spanish, and deal with topics in biology suitable for students in grades 7 through 11. All four units were classroom tested during 1970-1972 in the Calexico Unified School District (California). The four Learning Achievement Packages (LAPs) are entitled Cell Theory, Mitosis, Magnification, and Wounds. The LAP on "Cell Theory" shows that almost all living organisms are composed of cells, and examines cellular ultrastructures and their functions. "Mitosis" discusses the process of cell reproduction, and "Magnification" instructs the student in the correct use of the microscope. The LAP dealing with"Wounds" is intended for use in first aid instruction. This work was prepared under an ESEA Title VII contract. [More] Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Biology, Curriculum Guides, First Aid
(1977). Intermediate SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Language Arts, Unit 1, Kits 1-4, Supplement & Ditto Packet. Intended to facilitate the implementation of the activities suggested in the corresponding teacher's guide, this revised supplement and ditto packet contains visual aids and originals from which ditto masters may be made for duplicating multiple copies. The teacher's guide gives the timetable for when these materials are to be used. The illustrations are provided to help stimulate oral language and conceptual development. Some of them are designed to be cut out for manipulation with small groups and individuals, while others are full size to be left intact. By and large the worksheets are to be presented under supervision rather than as independent tasks. These visual aids include pictures to illustrate stories and new words; the worksheets include activities for teaching sentence structure, phrases, word meaning, different kinds of sentences, the letter combinations "ce" and "ci", the letters "b" and "v", syllables, poem writing, personal pronouns, common and proper nouns, and plural forms of nouns. All language appearing on materials to be used in the classroom are in Spanish, with introductions to the supplement and ditto packet in both Spanish and English. The two readers to be used with the unit are included. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Childrens Literature, Creative Expression, Elementary Education
(2001). ESL Policy and Practice: A Linguistic Human Rights Perspective, Clearing House. Finds that the reading performance of English-as-a-second-language students and English language learners immersed in regular education classes in a large urban school district was far below grade-level performance, across all categories of measurement; but that the performance of English language learners who had successfully exited from bilingual classes was consistently within or above the average range of performance. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
(1997). Facts & Figures: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Limited English Proficient (LEP) Students and Bilingual/ESL Programs, 1996-1997. In question and answer form, this document presents information about limited English proficient (LEP) students and programs for them in the New York City (New York) schools. City and state regulations govern the identification of LEP students and their selection for English as a second language (ESL) or bilingual programs. The Board of Education has developed a Language Assessment Battery to identify these students, who are required to receive ESL instruction, native language arts instruction, and social studies, mathematics, and science using their native language and English using ESL methodologies. There were 162,154 general education LEP students in the New York city public schools in 1996-97. Spanish is the predominant language of New York's LEP students, for 67.5%, followed by Chinese for 9.3%. Of these students, 154,992 were already receiving mandated ESL or bilingual instruction in 967 schools. In the city, 6,893 teachers were providing bilingual or ESL instruction, a figure that does not include counselors, program supervisors, resource teachers, or coordinators. A map of the community school districts in New York City shows the districts with 3,000 or more LEP students. (Contains nine tables.) [More] Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
(1975). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Social Science Strand, Unit 2, Grade One, Supplement & Ditto Packet. To be used with the second unit of the bilingual social science program developed for grade one, these revised supplementary teaching materials and the ditto packet are designed to help the teacher carry out learning activities which center on the concept of the child and his family. A timetable for when these materials are to be used is given in the corresponding teacher's guide, which contains kits five through eight. The supplementary illustrations, intended to help stimulate oral language and conceptual development, include pictures for use in open-ended stories and for discussion and illustration, finger puppet and mask patterns, materials for games, and resources for various other classroom activities. The ditto packet, a small part of the total publication, contains visuals and individual student worksheets. The worksheets are to be presented under supervision rather than as independent tasks. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Media, Family (Sociological Unit), Grade 1
(1981). Adult Basic Education for Non-English Speakers: A Bibliography. This bibliography is a collection of 51 entries concerning adult basic education for non-English speakers. Each entry contains an abstract describing the contents of the material. Information is also provided regarding availability, as well as indexing terms. [More] Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Bilingual Education, Career Education