Reports research on providing communication skills through art activities in the primary grades. (RL)

Reflections on the annual conference of the Canadian Council of Teachers of English (CCTE) and the development of language study in Canadian education are given. (HTH)

Discusses the influence television has on children's language development and lists television resources that illustrate children's literature, vocabulary and reading skills, mathematics, and study skills. (HTH)

Explores the child's use of language and suggests way to promote language development in the classroom. (MKM)

Urges language arts teachers to assign literature and classroom activities that provide practical knowledge about the world of work, the realities of social change, and the resources that will aid students to grow intellectually and emotionally. (DD)

The article examines a language arts course for gifted six- and seven-year-old children. After exploring some characteristics of giftedness, the author discusses the course, which incorporates reading, literary awareness, and creative writing. (PHR)

Reviews research studies, available through the ERIC system, on the interaction of cognitive, social, and language development, drawing implications for language arts instruction. (DD)

Writing behaviors such as pacing, crumpling paper, and cutting and pasting are signs of growth requiring nurturance. (DD)

Describes how two fifth-grade classes and one third-grade class used peer groups to respond to students' writing. (DD)

Offers a model of the spelling process and suggests a framework for diagnosis and for grouping of words. (DD)

Presents a public service advertisement by the International Paper Company on how to write a business letter and discusses the ad campaign to improve students' literacy. (DD)

Encourages language arts teachers to give students more opportunities to write in order to develop both their reading and their writing skills. (DD)

A humorous account of errors in existing basal readers and workbooks. (DD)

Summarizes results of studies showing that students studying Latin perform significantly better in language arts than equivalent groups of students not given instruction in Latin. (NCR)

A unit on poetry for gifted students is presented. Five activities focus on distinguishing poetry from prose, poetry from mere rhyme, and examining characteristics of poetry. Excerpts of poems and questions for students are included. (CL)