Illustrates how to use a sound poem to recreate the mood of a children's book. (DD)

Describes 55 places from which materials can be ordered to enrich the classroom instruction of language arts in elementary and middle school. (DD)

Describes a technique for getting students acquainted which involves having them coin words based on each other's first names. (DD)

Urges that children be taught the range of language uses as they occur in society and that they be taught to cope with the communications media. (DD)

Evaluates Neville Bennett's study of "Teaching Styles and Pupil Progress" which is being used to support a return to formal methods of instruction. (DD)

Reviews research on the association between children's oral language and their writing which, taken as a whole, raises doubts as to the existence of the very close and highly positive relationship some experts say exist between these two aspects of linguistic expression. More than 50 references are cited. (BR)

Discusses social prejudices against old people in general and old women in particular; suggests ways to combat these prejudices. (DD)

Reviews recent innovations in language arts instruction and provides lists of materials children read and books children might make. (DD)

A list of 25 English language arts journals, including the names of the sponsoring organizations, the names and addresses of the editors, and brief descriptions of the contents and editorial policies of the journals. (DD)

Describes the discovery and decipherment of the Rosetta Stone. (AV)

Draw an eye. Add a crown. Children make a gallery of illustrations to help "narrate" a story. (Editor)

Poems, activities and your kids' own ideas can produce a play that is truly their own. (Editor)

A knowledge of myth, legend, and folklore will help children understand allusions, their cultural ancestry, and themselves. (DD)

Discusses types of evaluation appropriate with elementary school writing. (AA)

Explores the relationship between language arts and social studies in terms of subject integration and the established school curriculum. States that this integration helps students achieve a variety of goals and skills. Hypothetical situations taken from Alberta provincial curriculum guides are used to explore the merits and disadvantages of…