A remedial instructor recounts experiences with a fifth-grade mainstreamed student with learning problems and a disruptive home environment. (HTH)

Educational problems are related to national and international issues; they can be solved if teachers see beyond the atomizing images projected by advertising and the news media. (DD)

Describes how the author prepares students for the test using genre study and problem-solving strategies. Notes how she struggles with questions about the role that tests play in schools and in children's lives. Notes the importance of teaching students how to take the test, but recognizes it has become more important to help them understand the…

Examines ERIC documents that discuss some of the writing problems of learning disabled students. Suggests classroom instructional strategies to help the learning disabled student best overcome his or her specific difficulty. (HTH)

Discusses problems with oral reading, recommends standards to guide the selection of oral reading materials, and suggests nine directions to children to guide their rehearsal for oral reading. (DD)

Recounts a boy's experiences with writing a story that helped him fulfill emotional needs. (MS)

Examines how children develop as writers and presents new ways of looking at children's problem solving in what they do and say during the writing process. Presents an outline of the general orders of child focus in the writing process. (HTH)

Surveys the state of writing research, research needed in the 1980s, and how teachers need to be involved in that research. (HTH)

Reveals the lack of research on children's writing and suitable writing instruction in the last 25 years. Points out the inadequacies in the research that is being done and the need for better research methods that take writing context and environment into account. (HTH)

Attacks the theory that there is a hierarchy of language skills wherein the learner starts with the simplest elements and builds to the complex. (DD)

Discusses how teachers make important choices in discussion groups as they support children's dialogue about social inequities. Notes that the kind of safety that developed did not mean that the talk was always pleasant and free of tension, but members could expect a balancing of support for responses with a questioning approach. (SG)

Looks at some of the core perspectives in teacher research, situates the movement in a wider context, and examines some of its explicit or implicit premises along with typical methodologies. Discusses the opportunities of teacher research; the craft-artistry perspective; communities of exchange, support, and inquiry; and warrants for knowledge in…

Defends improvisational drama as a means of promoting creative problem solving and describes the author's experience as a creative dramatics teacher at an inner-city school. (DD)

Discusses potential microcomputer applications in the language arts classroom, including computer assisted instruction, computer managed instruction, and information processing. Examines several disadvantages of the current technology such as its emphasis on visual skills at the expense of oral language. (HTH)