Provides information from the ERIC system on creative dramatics activities, outlines their advantages for handicapped children, and suggests techniques for using creative dramatics with mentally, physically, and emotionally handicapped children. (DD)

Small groups of first graders (N=11 and 16), identified as having poor listening and attention skills, or as reluctant contributors to oral expression, were stimulated to listen and discuss stories using "listening books" as resource materials. (Author/CL)

Suggestions are made for classroom activities to improve children's language skills. (JD)

Discusses children's concepts about stories, by examining interview responses. (AA)

Encourages teachers to view children's writing positively, to see errors not as deficiencies but as signs of growth. (DD)

Suggests writing activities in eight categories that provide remedial readers with the exposure to language that they need in order to improve their reading. (DD)

Urges teachers to let students read without quizzing them about every sentence or every book they read. (DD)

Provides an historical overview of the subject of oral reading, comments by Richard Ammon and Ronald Cramer about it, and a selected annotated bibliography on purposeful oral reading. (DD)

Discusses literature on the pros and cons of educational accountability in school systems, and suggests steps to take in evaluating student achievement in language arts. (CM)

Provides job cards for language activities in the middle grade classroom which pick up on ideas from "The Phantom Tollbooth," a children's classic by Norton Juster. (DD)

Defines language awareness, examines shifts in meaning which words undergo, and discusses how this topic can be applied in education. (DD)

Considers ways to use creative dramatics to develop competence in speaking, listening, and--by extension--writing. (DD)

Uses materials from the ERIC system to suggest ideas for a more imaginative use of language in the classroom and provides examples of how to accomplish this. (DD)

A teacher of gifted and talented primary students discusses ways to approach the subject of death and dying. Five class activities are presented which are designed to encourage fluency, risk taking, curiosity, and imagination through language arts and art. (CL)

These articles are presented as an aide in teaching basic subjects. This issue examines reading diagnosis, food preservation, prime numbers, electromagnets, acting out in language arts, self-directed spelling activities, and resources for environmental education. (Editor/RK)