SLATE Starter Sheet Archive
SLATE Starter Sheets by Topic
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Advertising
Kids & Advertising—What We Know and Need to Know
Advocacy
Public Communication: Speaking Out for Teachers of English
Guidelines for Political Action
Assessment, Testing
On Standardized Tests and Assessment Alternatives
The Testing Dilemma
On Student Achievement in Our Public Schools
On Student Achievement: SAT Scores Revisited
Nonpromotion
Tests of Minimum Competence in Writing
The NASSP Guidelines for Improving SAT Scores: A Dramatic Abuse of a Testing Situation
Standardized Testing: How to Read the Results
Minimal Competencies and Measures of Competence
The Minimum Competency Movement: Strategies for Response
The National Assessment of Educational Progress
Bilingual/Bicultural Students and Competency Testing
Competency Testing and Bilingual/Bicultural Students
Censorship
Censorship of Instructional Materials
Rationales for Teaching Challenged Books
Textbook Selection
Selection and Retention of Instructional Materials—What the Courts Have Said
Combatting Censorship of Instructional Materials
The Hatch Amendment
The Attack on Humanism
Class Size, Workload
The Time Has Come
What Happens in Smaller Classes?
Workload and the Teaching of Secondary School English
Computers in Education
Computers and Literacy: Access and Equity
Curriculum
Thinking Skills
Academic Learning Time, Mastery Learning, and All That
Textbook Selection
Teaching Books By and About Women
Grammar (See also Writing)
On the Teaching of Grammar
On Teaching Skills in Context
Back to the Basics: Grammar and Usage
Language
English as the Official Language
Bilingual/Bicultural Students and Competency Testing
Competency Testing and Bilingual/Bicultural Students
Back to the Basics: Language and Dialect
Literacy
Functional Illiteracy: Another View
Trends, Level, and Value of Literacy in the U.S.
What Are the "Basics" in English?
Literature
Literature as a Basic
Teaching Books By and About Women
Professional Concerns
Ethics in Classroom Teaching: A Survey of the Issues
Reading
On the Nature of Whole Language Education
On Myths about Whole Language Education
On Research on Whole Language Education
On the Teaching of Phonics
On Teaching Skills in Context
On Phonics in Whole Language Classrooms
Phonics: Means or Madness?
Readability: Conceptions and Misconceptions
Back to the Basics: Reading
Spelling (See also Writing)
On the Teaching of Spelling
On Teaching Skills in Context
Spelling, Revisited
Back to the Basics: Spelling
Teacher Certification, Teacher Preparation
Training Thinking Teachers
Easing the Transition from College to Classroom
Tracking and Grouping
Issues in Tracking and Ability Grouping Practices in English Language Arts Classrooms, K-12
Gifted and Talented Education
Providing for the Intellectually Gifted
Writing (See also Grammar and Spelling)
Back to the Basics: Composition
Standards for Basic Skills Writing Programs
On Teaching Skills in Context
Evaluating Writing
Collaborative Learning and Teaching Writing: What We Know and Need to Know about Peer Response Groups
Guidelines for Using Journals in School Settings
Writing to Learn in All Subjects
Writing Centers
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