Illustrates activities which integrate the language arts with other elements of the elementary school curriculum. (DD)

Describes techniques for combining language arts and social studies in a classroom analysis of cereal nutrition, packaging, and advertising. (DD)

Describes a program using thematic language arts learning contracts. (DD)

Integrating the arts into language arts classes for the gifted is advocated to enhance self awareness and self expression. (CL)

Presents brief annotations of 30 children's trade books published in 1996 considered to be outstanding for their enhancement of language awareness among students in grades K-8. (SR)

Describes the learning process of a teacher working to make creative-drama teaching strategies part of her teaching repertoire. Investigates how a drama specialist works with that teacher to develop creative drama learning experiences. Finds that creative drama can be incorporated within constraints of time and curriculum, and can be structured so…

Relates how the Standing Committee on Teacher Preparation and Certification of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) came together and worked together to develop guidelines on English and language arts teacher education which will stand from 1996-2006. Discusses getting from drafts to a published document. (PA)

Discusses how to teach students the values of "understanding, tolerance, caring, and respect," and to help them understand and appreciate cultures other than their own. Focuses on five levels: building a classroom library of multicultural literature; using "lit sets" (multiple copies of the same book) to promote multicultural…

Discusses concerns (curricular, diversity, and community concerns) teachers have about multiculturalism and multicultural education in the language arts classroom. Discusses also teachers' ideas and solutions to these concerns. (SR)

Argues that the "Standards for the English Language Arts" (SELA) gives English teachers direction. Discusses what "teaching English" means. Suggests that SELA is not a prescriptive list of measurement items nor a cookbook for skillful English teaching: SELA is a statement of principles of, for, and by professionals, and a K-12 statement of…

Traces the public furor that greeted the National Council of Teachers/International Reading Association's "Standards for the English Language Arts." Discusses responses to criticisms. Argues that the language in the "Standards" is flat; the standards are meant to be guidelines, not mandates; and the emphasis was on process. (RS)

Presents an annotated bibliography of 57 World Wide Web sites grouped by subjects, including language arts curricula and pedagogy, writing tools, "fun" writing tools, on-line libraries, on-line books, miscellaneous on-line collections, language arts indexes, technology planning guides, technology plan examples, censorship and copyrights,…

Reports how students use raw data to create a number of narratives integrating group observations in the laboratory with individual responses to humanities readings. (Contains 21 references.) (DDR)

Discusses reader-based and text-based approaches to teaching literature to high school students and then offers suggestions for questions and activities for the teaching of Robert Cormier's "The Chocolate War." (TB)

Presents a short section from a science fiction/fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett called "The Colour of Magic." Discusses its usefulness as a read-aloud for mathematics instruction of geometry, particularly the concept of circumference. (SR)