This annotated bibliography is reformatted and customized by the Center for Positive Practices. Some of the authors featured on this page include and Miami Beach Spanish Curricula Development Center.
(1975). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Spanish SL Strand, Unit 3, Grade One, Supplement & Ditto Packet. Intended for use with unit three of the Spanish as a Second Language curriculum for grade one, these supplementary instructional aids include visual aids and ditto masters for seatwork by students as well as for class activities. A teacher's guide corresponding to this unit, which consists of kits 9-12, gives the timetable for when these materials are to be used. Using the school as a basic theme, the illustrations and worksheets are to help the teacher carry out learning activities which will provide the English-dominant child with structures and vocabulary for effective communication in a bilingual environment. These supplementary instructional aids span the subjects of language arts, math, and science; many are for use with four small student books which accompany the teacher's guide. Illustrations pertain to such areas as safety, functions of school personnel, belonging to a group, cooperation, expression of feelings, the school cafeteria, time, geometric shapes, words, sentences, numbers, and a birthday party. 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. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Environment, Educational Media, Grade 1
(1975). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Spanish SL Strand, Unit 6, Grade 2, Supplement & Ditto Packet. The supplement and ditto packet to the Spanish as a Second Language strand of unit six for second graders contains activities for both seatwork and group participation. Unit six is oriented toward the basic theme of the neighborhood as a community; Kits 21-24 reflect the spiraling questions of what the elements are, how wants and needs are satisfied, how changes occur, and what happens as a result of change. The illustrations help stimulate oral language and conceptual development and are used for such activities as identifying objects, retelling stories, and guiding class discussions. Cutouts can be rearranged in story sequences or used for characters and backdrops in a puppet play. Ditto masters are provided for making multiple copies of visuals or for written seatwork. These include such exercises as matching pictures with words, fill-in-the-blanks, and formulating simple equations. Specific topic areas studied include places in a neighborhood, nutrition, doctors and other health-related topics, the seasons, kinds of clothing, and weather conditions. Each kit within the unit is designed for a period of instruction of two to three weeks. Language on materials for classroom use is in Spanish. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Comprehension, Decoding (Reading), Educational Media
(1977). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Language Arts, Unit 4, Grade Two, Supplement & Ditto Packet. Visual aids and worksheets designed for use with the fourth unit of a bilingual language arts program developed for grade two are included in this supplement and ditto packet. The timetable for when these materials are to be used appears in the teacher's guide for kits 13-16. These instructional aids are to help the teacher carry out learning activities in oral language development and language-experience reading, structured reading, and comprehension and interpretation skills. Basic theme for the unit is the neighborhood. Visual aids include those for use with four small pupil books which are a part of this unit and for use with rhymes from Puerto Rico, Cuba and Mexico which are studied in the classroom. Other materials cover the letters of the alphabet, words, structures, writing skills, community resources, and occupations seen in the neighborhood. All language appearing on materials to be used in the classroom are in Spanish, with brief introductions to the supplement and ditto packet in both Spanish and English. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Media, Grade 2, Instructional Materials
(1977). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Social Science, Unit 10, Grade 3, Teacher's Guide. Communities around the world is the theme of unit 10 of a bilingual social science strand for grade three. Inquiry strategies in both cognitive and affective domains serve as instruments to reach objectives of learning and assessment activities in kits 37-40. Each kit focuses on one of the spiraling questions of who the individual is, what his alternatives are, how he can initiate change, and what the results of change are. Content sources are stories, U.S. and world maps, dramatizations, research work, group reports, guided discussion, and the child's experiences. Focus, objective, and materials for each activity are given in English and Spanish; teacher instructions are in Spanish. Kits cover the concepts of what being bilingual/bicultural means and of interdependence, cooperation, values and societal control; extended family values common to three ethnic groups (Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and Cubans); beginnings of Indians in America; concepts of tradition and causality; the Spanish explorer Balboa; other explorations; a child planned expedition; concepts of power, conflict, and differences; origin of customs; identification of cultural elements related to the historical background of the child's ethnic group; concepts of cultural change; and modification. Descriptors: American Indians, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Cooperation
(1975). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Fine Arts Strand, Unit 5, Grade 2, Supplement & Ditto Packet. Complementing the instructional and assessment activities of the fine arts strand of unit five for second graders, this packet provides visual materials to aid the teacher in presenting the activities described in the teacher's guide. Materials for class activities are presented along with seatwork for individual students. Four Spanish songbooks accompany the supplement, and Cassette 17-20 provides a recorded version of the musical selections used (available separately from the Dissemination Center). Illustrations are provided to help stimulate oral language and conceptual development. Among the illustrations are scenes from songs, diagrams for rhythm band work, maps, pictures of organs, dance steps, representations of melodic contours, and a series of scenes from the story of Hansel and Gretel. The ditto packet provides ditto masters for developing awareness and auditory perceptions of environmental sounds, matching musical sounds and noises to pictures, perceiving contrasts in sound intensity, and working with melodic contours. Seatwork activities are designed for presentation under supervision rather than as individual tasks. Materials for classroom use are in Spanish. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Childrens Literature, Cultural Education, Educational Media
(1976). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Fine Arts Strand, Unit 8, Grade 3, Supplement & Ditto Packet. Support materials for unit eight of a bilingual fine arts strand developed for the third grade include four small song books, a supplement of instructional aids, and a ditto packet. The timetable for use of these materials is given in the teacher's guide corresponding to this instructional strand (kits 29-32). Song books have color illustrations to accompany the words, music, and guitar chords of each song. Instructional aids are designed to help the teacher present instruction and assessment activities in the guide and to help stimulate oral language and conceptual development. Ditto masters are for making multiple copies of visuals and individual seatwork sheets for students. The supplementary materials include worksheets, maps, and pictures for teaching rhythm patterns, musical notation, the musical scale, songs on various social science and science themes, and orchestra instruments. All classroom materials are in Spanish. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Childrens Literature, Cultural Education, Educational Media
(1976). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Social Science Strand, Unit 8, Grade 3, Supplement & Ditto Packet. Designed for use with the teacher's guide to unit eight of the social science strand developed for grade three, these support materials for Spanish-speaking children include instructional aids for classroom use and worksheets for students which may be reproduced for individual seatwork. Worksheets are to be used under supervision rather than as independent tasks. The visuals and ditto masters are to help the teacher carry out both learning and assessment activities which focus on the unit's theme–communities which make up the nation. A timetable for the use of these materials is found in the guide for kits 29-32. The supplementary materials include maps, assessment sheets, and visuals to illustrate classroom stories and to be used with study about early inhabitants of the U.S., different types of architecture, occupations, interdependence in a community and among communities, and pollution. All classroom materials are in Spanish. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Characteristics, Cultural Differences, Educational Media
(1977). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Spanish SL Strand, Unit 10, Grade 3, Supplement & Ditto Packet. Support materials for the last of 40 instructional kits of the Spanish as a Second Language Strand for primary grades are contained in this supplement to Unit 10 developed for third graders. A teacher's guide for this unit, consisting of kits 37-40, gives the timetable for use of materials. These instructional aids are designed to help the teacher carry out learning activities which will provide the English-dominant child with structures and vocabulary for effective communication in a bilingual environment. Illustrations are intended to stimulate oral language and conceptual development, while the ditto masters are for making multiple copies of visuals and individual seatwork sheets for both instruction and assessment. Kit activities support a basic theme of communities around the world. Supplementary materials include words, music, and illustrations for songs (recordings available through the Fine Arts Strand); illustrated stories; format of a diary; visuals to use with how plants and animals protect themselves; dictionaries for two stories; worksheets for various grammar exercises; and illustrations about adventures, communities of the world, and occupations (derivative words). Classroom materials are in Spanish. Each kit is for a two to three week teaching period. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Childrens Literature, Community Role, Educational Media
(1976). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Language Arts Strand, Unit 8, Grade 3, Supplement & Ditto Packet. Visual aids and worksheets designed for use with unit eight of a language arts strand for Spanish-speaking students in grade three are included in this packet, along with two small illustrated readers for students. These instructional aids are to help the teacher carry out learning and assessment activities found in the teacher's guide for kits 29-32, each of which is designed for a two to three-week teaching period. Timetable for use of the materials appears in the guide. Illustrated literature in the pupil readers includes a fable, mystery story, Haiku verses, a story describing the water cycle, a traditional poem, and biographies of Roberto Clemente, Lidia Diaz Cruz, and Armando Rodriguez. Instructional aids are to help in reading, language analysis, and creative expression activities. Ditto masters are for making multiple copies of visuals and sheets for individual seatwork. The materials encompass activities which pertain to use of the readers; Cuban, Mexican, and Puerto Rican linguistic variation; occupations; dictionary skills; contributions from different ethnic communities; nonverbal communication; parts of a letter; and basic grammar. All classroom materials are in Spanish Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Biographies, Childrens Literature, Educational Media
(1976). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Spanish SL Strand, Unit 7, Grade 3, Supplement & Ditto Packet. Supplementary materials for unit seven of Spanish as a Second Language include a packet of instructional aids and ditto masters and two small student readers. Prepared for grade three, the materials are designed to help the teacher conduct learning and assessment activities described in the teacher's guide, which provides a timetable for using these books and materials. Visuals and worksheets are to assist in providing the English-dominant child with structures and vocabulary for effective communication in a bilingual environment. The two small illustrated books for pupils are in Spanish, as are all classroom materials; each reader contains a list of new words along with page numbers on which they appear. The supplementary materials, many of which support the unit theme of the extended community, include visuals and worksheets for use with classroom stories, grammar exercises, arithmetic, telling time, games, and activities about community resources and transportation. The worksheets are to be presented under supervision rather than as independent tasks. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Childrens Literature, Community Characteristics, Community Resources
(1977). Intermediate SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Social Science, Unit 1, Kits 1-4, Supplement & Ditto Packet. Designed for use with the teacher's guide to the intermediate social science unit, the supplement and ditto packet provides visual aids and worksheets for class activities and seatwork for individual students. Visual materials are provided to help stimulate oral language and conceptual development. The worksheets are to be presented under supervision rather than as independent tasks. Language on these materials is in Spanish. Activities deal with the basic social science concepts of interdependence, cooperation, values, societal control, tradition, causality, power, conflict, differences, cultural change and modification. The materials help the students to identify the following: things of importance to the community, the relationship existing between norms and laws, ways money is spent in a community, the interdependence of producers and consumers, things in the community that appear not to change, important events in a child's life, free services provided by the community, how change affects people's lives and values, the importance of gathering information about the culture and life-style of other people, probable causes and effects of physical change in a community, different jobs in the community, differences that can cause conflicts among people in the community, methods to influence different groups that exert power in the community, and things that unify a group or a community. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Change Agents, Community Change, Community Characteristics
(1977). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Spanish SL, Unit 5, Grade 2, Supplement & Ditto Packet. The supplement and ditto packet to the Spanish SL strand of unit five for second graders provides visual materials for kits 17-20. Linguistic content of the unit was determined by its relation to the basic theme of the school as a community. Each kit treats a spiraling question. Illustrations are designed to implement oral language and conceptual development. Two Spanish readers accompany the materials. Kit 17 deals with the spiraling question of what the elements are, and supplement pictures aid the children in describing actions they see portrayed, identifying musical instruments, grouping and labeling, and working with story elements. Kit 18 treats the question of how wants and needs are satisfied; supplement materials are used to tell time, identify actions particular to certain times of the day, name foods, and recall events from the reader "Gisela". The question of kit 19 is how change occurs, while supplement materials recall stories. Kit 20 works with what happens as a result of change. Visuals are provided for story recall, work with commands, coin identification, and cutouts for vocabulary identification. Ditto materials include cutouts, dot-to-dot drawings, vocabulary visuals, and written work. Language on materials for classroom use is in Spanish. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Childrens Literature, Educational Media, Grade 2
(1976). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Social Science Strand, Unit 7, Grade 3, Supplement & Ditto Packet. Designed for use with the teacher's guide to unit seven of the social science strand for Spanish-speaking third graders, these support materials include instructional aids for classroom use and worksheets for students which may be reproduced for individual seatwork. Worksheets are to be presented under supervision rather than as independent tasks. The visuals and ditto masters are to help the teacher carry out both learning and assessment activities which focus on the child's community. Timetable for use of these materials is found in the guide for kits 25-28. The supplementary materials include visuals about occupations, seasons of the year, influence of physical environment on a community, regulations for protection, ethnic groups, movement of the earth, feelings of community members, moving to a new place, and for use with stories found in the teacher's guide about conflict resolution in a community, stereotypes, and Puerto Rican, Mexican, Cuban, and U.S. celebrations. All classroom materials are in Spanish. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Characteristics, Conflict Resolution, Cultural Activities
(1976). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Science/Math Strand, Unit 8, Grade 3, Supplement & Ditto Packet. A supplement to the teacher's guide for unit eight of a math/science strand for Spanish-speaking third graders, these instructional aids and ditto masters are designed to help the teacher carry out the instructional and assessment activities for kits 29-32. The guide gives the timetable for when these materials are to be used. Basic theme for the unit is the nation's communities. The supplementary packet contains both visuals for classroom use and worksheets for students which may be reproduced for individual seatwork. The worksheets are to be presented under supervision rather than as independent tasks. Science materials pertain to activities about environmental pollution, safety, and the human body. Math materials encompass ordinal numbers to 30, fractions, addition, subtraction, value of coins to $1, story problems involving money, and four-digit numbers. All classroom materials are in Spanish. Descriptors: Addition, Bilingual Education, Educational Media, Elementary School Mathematics
(1976). SCDC Spanish Curricula Units. Spanish SL Strand, Unit 8, Grade 3, Supplement & Ditto Packet. Supplementary instructional aids and two small pupil readers for unit eight of the Spanish as a Second Language strand developed for grade three are designed for use with the teacher's guide. Illustrations and worksheets for kits 29-32 are to help the teacher carry out learning and assessment activities which will provide the English-dominant child with structures and vocabulary for effective communication in a bilingual environment. The two Spanish illustrated books for children contain a list of new words with page numbers on which they appear. The supplementary materials, which are all in Spanish, accompany activities supporting a basic theme of communities in the nation. Many of the visuals are for use with the reading materials; ditto masters are for seatwork by students and for class activities. In addition to visuals for stories, there are materials pertaining to grammar, numbers, a classroom song, communities, and games. The timetable for using these books and materials is in the teacher's guide. Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Childrens Literature, Community Characteristics, Educational Media