The language arts curriculum should involve methods, a content, and an atmosphere which celebrate creative language acquisition. (DD)

Teachers can help students restore the human dimension in the learning process through a wide variety of activities. Newspaper stories, magazine articles, and television news coverage are excellent sources for the language arts teacher's efforts to stimulate student awareness of their feelings and environment. (Author/RK)

Soon after "Prescription for Ailing penmanship" (EJ 153 105) appeared in this journal, two readers sent in their adaptations and expansion of the idea, including several "newly discovered" ailments. Here are their descriptions, diagnoses and treatments of strokenemia, messiosis, numberalgia and two secondary manifestations of "t"sles and…

States that 30 million people currently access the Internet, the international electronic superhighway linking thousands of individual computer networks. Offers information about terms used on the Internet; accessing the World Wide Web; language arts, writing, and literacy resources available on the Web; and educational sites, specific databases,…

Describes how an English teacher uses ghost stories in his classroom to further students' interest in and understanding of epics. Presents a short unit in which all the class work focuses on scary kinds of things. (SR)

Discusses two six-week projects for high school students involving qualitative and quantitative research methods to integrate mathematics and English. Students use descriptive statistics and prose to present findings about (1) their school space and (2) daily life for American troops in the Gulf War. (KMC)

Describes new standards set by the International Reading Association and National Council of Teachers of English. States that the new standards reflect the best of current research and theory about how students learn to be powerful users of English language arts. Provides details about the new standards, including how they were revised from their…

Presents an interview with Bernice E. Cullinan. Notes that she has been named the Outstanding Educator in the Language Arts for 2003. Notes that the recipients of this award are selected by members of the Elementary Section Steering Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English. Talks about who she is and what she feels she has…

Presents an appreciation in honor and praise of language arts educator Donald H. Graves. Describes the rewards, now compounding through the generations, of his gentle encouragement and his continual modeling as a learner himself, teaching students and classroom teachers to value all they know and all they can do through writing compassionately and…

Offers tips for incorporating Shakespeare into a creative dramatics program for elementary students: ensure a speaking part for every child; assign parts best for the child; produce the play most comfortable for the class; allow for student input on characterization; rehearse a portion of the play each day; plan for several performances; and…

Presents a conversation with Dorothy Watson, the 2002 Outstanding Educator in the Language Arts recipient. Hopes that this profile will provide insight into Dorothy Watson and her intellectual foundations, her humaneness, and her passion for teaching and learning. (SG)

Examines the categories of articles in the ERIC database that provide information about using literature across the curriculum. (MG)

Sees collaborative inquiry as what curriculum should be all about. Describes a curricular model in which disciplines become research devices that students constantly use rather than areas to be mastered. Identifies and discusses the five key processes that language plays in learning: voice, connection, perspective through transmediation, tension,…

Argues that language arts education and discussions of language arts have skirted issues of existential philosophy and religion, even though these issues are inherently a part of literature. Raises concerns about the personal and political consequences of avoiding questions about why people exist and what purpose they have in life. (TB)

"Elegant compromises" in the classroom can make divisive discussions between traditionalists and multiculturalists seem irrelevant. For 25 years, public high school students in at least 3 of Wigginton's English classes have met language arts requirements by studying their Appalachian mountain history, customs, and traditions. This…