A language arts unit on the shape "round" is described. Useful materials, references, and activities are suggested. (MT)

The article describes a structured approach to teaching sign language to severely disabled students through task analysis. The approach emphasizes four basic principles from developmental and behavioral theories: (1) environmental influence, (2) imitation, (3) reinforcement, (4) practice. A functional sign vocabulary of 250 words grouped according…

Calls for the educator/researcher to listen to and to assimilate children's stories of their school experiences and to reconstruct the meaning of schooling through their eyes, resisting cultural hegemony, and quantification. (HTH)

Explores internal and external measures of excellence, noting that while excellence is easy enough to recognize, a true and reliable measure of excellence is difficult to come by. (HTH)

You will search and search and you will never find a way to teach creative writing. Artists are superior beings. (Author)

Explores the theory and practice of imitation in the rhetorician's sense of emulating models." (Author)

Discusses why and how writing can be taught in the elementary school and suggests some materials that can support an elementary writing program. (HOD)

Offers examples of research in language arts education to illustrate both the values and difficulties of such research. (RL)

Presents ideas for getting elementary students to explore the meaning of cliches and idiomatic phrases. (SJL)