A careful balance between the free expression of ideas and the development of skills needed for clear and effective communication is obviously essential to a complete, well-integrated language arts program. (Author)

Sixth grade teacher describes how pride of authorship builds improved language skills.'' (Editor/SP)

Sixth graders produced books of rotten thoughts'' on various topics. (SP)

Describes a program that has brought two teacher training institutions into more direct involvement in meeting the needs of the inner city students and teachers. (RB)

Suggestions on incorporating children's chants, games, riddles, and songs into the language arts program. (SP)

Aesthetic education aims at the creation of the child as a total being in which receptivity to the arts and engagement with them become equal with the demands of the intellect and their recognized disciplines. (Author)

There has been some work done with the underprivileged, but many problems still remain. The author discusses the language phase of these problems along with the implications for teaching English. (Author/MF)

Reviews McDougal, Littell's Language of Man", and finds it to be perhaps the best language series developed for the secondary market in recent years. (Editor)

A review of Language and Learning" (University of Miami Press), by James Britton, Reader in Education and Head of the Engligh Department at the University of London Institute of Education. (RY)

After distinguishing between interpersonal communication and public speaking, the author argues that interpersonal communication has emerged because we are living in an age of changing values, myths and symbols. These changes create anxiety, which in turn creates a need for therapy. (Editor)

Children's errors and slips, their incomplete and partially right answers are often more illuminating and informative of a child's stages of language development and his thought processes and are of greater value for future action by the teacher than are the number of correct answers in a formal right, wrong testing situation. (Author)

Illustrated. (RD)