Reports results of a survey investigating the amount of attention (page space) devoted to drama in textbooks, and identifies commonly presented topics. (VLC)

Interviews Gordon Wells of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada. Wells extends the concept of children negotiating with people in their environment to create meaning to teachers taking control of their own learning and in so doing facilitating children's taking control of their own learning. (HTH)

Describes an informal classroom research project that explored how children perceive the changes they make in their writing and what they think about when they write. (HTH)

Interviews Jan Turbull about her work with writing teachers in the St. George Writing Project in Australia. (HTH)

Lists the ways that incorporating a programmable robot into an elementary school curriculum improves students' speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. (AEA)

Notes how the current emphasis on language instruction perpetuates the dominant culture. Explores the meanings first-grade children take from their oral language learning experiences and considers possible implications of those meanings and of the resistance shown by students to this production and reproduction of culture. (HTH)

Describes fourth graders' observations and hypotheses about the sun and moon and how the three-dimensional reality gradually replaced the inadequate two-dimensional models of textbooks. Discusses implications for instruction of this progression from concrete to abstract. (HTH)

Describes the mentor program of the Teachers College Writing Project of New York City. (HTH)

An interdisciplinary unit on investigation guides gifted students up to age 14 through problem solving activities in language arts, mathematics, science, and social sciences. (CL)

Explores the fluctuating but hierarchical nature of the educational roles and relationships between parent, teacher, and child. Suggests collaboration as an organizational alternative. (HTH)

Explores the three broad thrusts of literature curricula, noting that no test can cover all three. Discusses how the content and objectives of the literature curriculum can be specified and how test questions can be developed for the evaluation of literature comprehension. (HTH)

Reviews "Key Lingo" (vocabulary practice in adventure setting), "Watch Your Speech" (practice identifying parts of speech), and "WordWork" (challenging word game to stimulate reading and spelling skills). Includes computer needed, manufacturer, current price, and detailed evaluation of the software. (JN)

Writing skills can be reinforced when students work together to create a classroom novel. Examples of how a language arts class developed a character by brainstorming, then wrote and revised their story to be shared with others, are given. (DF)

Examines language arts software that is designed for use by young children. (FL)

Reviews two vocabulary improvement programs that have recently been introduced. (FL)