GRADES OR AGES: Senior High School. SUBJECT MATTER: Language arts. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The subject matter for the program has been divided into two major areas: writing and language, literature and humanities. Students are required to take one course from each area in each quarter. The first part of the guide includes an…

The personal-growth model of the language arts, based on views expressed at the 1966 Dartmouth Seminar, emphasizes creative drama as important in contributing to children's language development. However, any increase in creative drama within language arts programs is jeopardized by current conditions, which include limited economic resources,…

Help kids create poems, stories and plays orally and they'll be readier to write. (Editor)

Developers of language arts programs for the gifted need to examine language structure, language function, and motivational activities to develop syntactical modeling, vocabulary, spelling, and creative writing. (DB)

In Language Arts program attention should be given to oral communication and listening skills as well as reading skills.

As a project, one literature class sent ballots to 260 schools and asked the children to vote for their favorite book.

Five arguments supporting creative writing programs in the language arts curriculum are presented.

Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of concentrating on skill development in English instruction; presents the merits and limitations of the educational system proposed by James Moffett. (MAI)

Discusses ten ERIC documents which offer suggestions for integrating writing activities with oral language, ongoing classroom experiences, and literature. (DD)

Describes an early-practice approach to research skills using activity work sheets, a technique that yields an immediate bonus because once they've been mastered most students can apply the skills smoothly to many areas of the curriculum. (Author/RK)

Demonstrates how fourth grade students can help one another to improve the rough drafts of their compositions. (DD)

Children should be exposed to a rich linguistic environment, but language learning tasks cannot and should not be optimally ordered. (DD)

Too much attention is given to drill on the component skills of language and literacy and too little attention to their significant use. Component skills must be used in contexts that require their integration into some larger act that has a personal purpose that binds the parts into the whole. (Author/IRT)

Suggests ways to help students avoid miscues caused by eye dialects in their reading. (DD)

Criticizes the Poets in the Schools program and similar undertakings for praising students' writing excessively and thus failing to acquaint students with the discipline required to produce outstanding poetry. (DD)