Illustrates the complexity of the issues of sexism, gender discrimination, and oppression by sharing some observations, conversations, and writings of elementary school students. Notes the value of including student-created literary characters in class discussion of gender issues. (RS)

Lists a variety of techniques, activities, and attitudes that could be utilized by secondary teachers of writing to enhance and improve the quality and results of instruction. Covers numerous classroom situations, teacher student relationship issues, and comments on student papers. Includes samples of students' writing. (HB)

Uses brief accounts by undergraduate students of their experiences with computers and word processing to investigate gender-related differences in attitudes toward computers and to explore why computers seem to reflect back to many women a learned sense of technical incompetence. Focuses on themes of power, caring, and self-esteem. (SR)

Explores responses to fiction reading by students who record these responses in journals. (NKA)

Explores the connection between reading and writing implicit in children's creative writing and highlights the similarity between processes of reading and writing. (JC)

Outlines the curriculum used in the nineteenth century in Canada for instructing elementary and secondary students in grammar and composition. Notes that modern teachers of English have continued to rely upon the aims of traditional pedagogy because other programs for writing instruction have not displaced older pedagogical beliefs and…

Concludes that the nature of the writing tasks assigned to students will emphasize some aspects of the curriculum and de-emphasize others. (NKA)